. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. butter-flies in the Eastern United States vary from russet todark wood-brown or nearly black, and in most specieshave eye-spots on the under side of the hind wings atleast. The larva are cylindrical, tapering slightly fromthe second segment, the head larger than this body is more or less provided with small tuberclessupporting hairs. Grass constitutes the principal food-plant. The chrysalides are more nearly cylindrical thanin the preceding subfamily. 81. Debis Portlandia, Fab.
. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. butter-flies in the Eastern United States vary from russet todark wood-brown or nearly black, and in most specieshave eye-spots on the under side of the hind wings atleast. The larva are cylindrical, tapering slightly fromthe second segment, the head larger than this body is more or less provided with small tuberclessupporting hairs. Grass constitutes the principal food-plant. The chrysalides are more nearly cylindrical thanin the preceding subfamily. 81. Debis Portlandia, Fab. Expanse of wings from to inches. Upper surface wood-brown, rather light, the outerthird a little paler, the division marked by a darkershade of the ground color, more pronounced on the forewings, the line dentate with two prominent teeth oppo-site the discal cell, from which it bends inward^ beforea whitish somewhat oblong costal patch. In this palerterminal space there is an anteapical whitish dot in linewith four or five round dull black spots annulate with 20 230 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE. Debis Portlandia, male (natural size). yellowish, two of them small, the three larger pupilied(vith dark black. On the hind wings there are five subequal rather largeFtq. 70 eye-spots. The outer l)order is composed oftwo lines slightly palerthan the ground color,with a dark line and adark internal shade. Under side brown asabove, with a violettinge, traversed by twobrown sinuous lines, be-tween which there is a discoidal arc of the same eye-spots are brighter and blacker than above, theiris yellow and pupil white, the anal one on the hindwings double. Those on the fore wings are enclosed inan oblong white ring. A similar ring enclosing those ofthe hind wings is crenate, the first and the last cut offfrom the others by cross-lines. The border is composedof white, brown, and dark yellow lines. This species is to be found in woodlands, the malesitting on the body of some tree
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