Butterflies; Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
According to the manner in which they have been respectively
constituted, _Callidryas_ therefore is best distinguished from Colias
by the antennæ, which in the latter terminate in an obconical club;
and from _Rhodocera_ (including _Gonopteryx_ of Dr. Leach), which has
these organs likewise truncated, by the shape of the wings, which
never present acute angular projections. The prevailing colour of the
species is yellow, from deep orange to the palest sulphur yellow. The
females are usually of a paler hue than the males, and the sexual
differences are strongly marked in other particulars. On the under
side of the wings there are almost invariably one or two small spots,
near the middle, of a silvery or rusty-brown hue; these are either
wanting or very minute in the males, while they are distinctly marked
in the females. The former sex, in the majority of species, presents a
very peculiar character in having the anterior edge of the under wings
provided with a kind of pulverulent glandular sac, which varies much in
size and colour in different species.
A great similarity prevails among the different species of
_Callidryas_, and they are consequently difficult to determine. They
inhabit the intertropical regions of the two continents.
CALLIDRYAS EUBULE.
PLATE VIII. Fig. 1.
Pap. Eubule, _Linn. Cramer_, Pl. 120, F, C.--Caterpillar, _Stoll’s
Supp. to Cramer_, Pl. 3, fig. 1, A.--Callidryas Eubule, _Boisd.
Species general_, i. 613.
This insect so closely resembles _C. Marcellina_ that it is possible
they would still have continued to be confounded, as they were by
the earlier entomologists, had not the different appearance of the
caterpillar indicated their essential distinction. In the male the
surface of the wings is a fine citron-yellow, with a narrow border of
a deeper hue; the fringe of all the wings marked at remote intervals
with small rust-coloured spots. Beneath the colour is red, or
brownish-yellow; the upper wings with a double ferruginous spot at the
extremity of the discoidal cell, and a brownish zig-zag ray towards
the outer margin; the under wings likewise with two rounded discoidal
spots, silvery in the centre, and surrounded by a rust-coloured ring;
there are likewise several undulating brown lines running across the
surface more or less distinctly defined. The female is bright yellow
inclining to orange, the inferior wings much rounded, and having an
orange-coloured fringe interrupted with transverse brown stripes.
The position and appearance of the discoidal spots similar to what has
been described in the male: the under side deep ochre yellow. Body
yellow, with greenish hairs on the thorax; antennæ, and terminal joint
of the palpi, rose-colour mixed with brown.
[Illustration:
PLATE 8.
1. _Callidryus Eubule with Cater. & Chrysalis._ Brazil.
4. _Terias Mexico._ Mexico.
_Lizars sc._]
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