. The butterfly book;. Butterflies. Genus Colias insect is peculiar to the Pacific coast, and there is a wide difference in appearance between the sexes. Expanse, inches. Early Stages.—^\\& caterpillar feeds upon Amorpha califor- nica. The life-history has been accurately described, and the va- rious stages depicted, by Edwards. (2) Meganostoma csesonia, Stoll, Plate XXXVI, Fig. 3, $> ; Fig. 4, ? (The Southern Dog-face). Butterfly.—Tht sexes are much alike in this species, which ranges widely over the Southern States, and is found even in south- ern Illinois and sometimes stil
. The butterfly book;. Butterflies. Genus Colias insect is peculiar to the Pacific coast, and there is a wide difference in appearance between the sexes. Expanse, inches. Early Stages.—^\\& caterpillar feeds upon Amorpha califor- nica. The life-history has been accurately described, and the va- rious stages depicted, by Edwards. (2) Meganostoma csesonia, Stoll, Plate XXXVI, Fig. 3, $> ; Fig. 4, ? (The Southern Dog-face). Butterfly.—Tht sexes are much alike in this species, which ranges widely over the Southern States, and is found even in south- ern Illinois and sometimes still farther north. Expanse, ^ inches. Early Stages.—^\\Qse have been fully described by various authors, most carefully by Edwards. Genus COLIAS, Fabricius (The Sulphurs) " Above the arching jimson-weeds flare twos And twos of sallow-yellow butterflies, Like blooms of lorn primroses blowing loose, When autumn winds ; James Whitcomb Riley. 5^//^r^^.—Medium-sized butterflies, yellow or orange in color, with black borders upon the wings. In many species this border is heavier in the female than in the male. £^^,_The tgg is spindle-shaped, thickest at the middle, taper- ing at the apex and at the base, generally attached by an enlarged disk-like expansion to the point on which it is laid. The upper extremity is rounded; the sides are marked by small vertical ridges, between which are delicate cross-lines. Caterpillar.—l\\t caterpillars strongly re- semble in appearance those of the preceding genus, from which, superficially, they cannot be distinguished by any anatomical peculiar- ities. They feed upon Leguminosce, and espe- cially upon clover {Trifolium). Chrysalis.—The chrysalids do not generally differ in appearance from the chrysalids of the genus Meganostoma, though the wing-cases do 289. Fig. 147.—Neu- ration of the genus Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for read
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