The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North AmericaHolland, W. J. (William Jacob)
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The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob)
Butterflies -- North America
_Butterfly._--The fore wings are white on the upper side, dusted with
gray at the base, on the costa, the apex, and the outer margin. The hind
wings are gray on the basal area, pale yellowish-brown on the limbal
area, with a narrow fuscous margin. On the under side the markings of
the upper side reappear, the gray tints being replaced by yellow. The
hind wings are yellowish, with a white transverse band near the base and
an incomplete series of white spots on the limbal area. Expanse, 1.50
inch.
The early stages await description. The insect is found about
Brownsville, Texas, and throughout Mexico and Central America.
Genus CALLICORE, Hübner
(The Leopard-spots)
_Butterfly._--Small-sized butterflies, with the upper side of the wings
dark in color, marked with bands of shining metallic blue or
silvery-green, the under side of the wings generally more or less
brilliantly colored, carmine upon the primaries and silvery-white upon
the secondaries, with the apex of the primaries marked with black
transverse bands and the body of the secondaries traversed by curiously
arranged bands of deep black, these bands inclosing about the middle of
the wing circular or pear-shaped spots. All of the subcostal nervules in
this genus arise beyond the end of the cell. The costal and the median
veins are swollen near the base. The cell in both the fore and hind
wings is open.
[Illustration FIG. 103.--Neuration of the genus _Callicore_.]
_Early Stages._--Very little is known of these.
This genus numbers about thirty species, almost all of which are found
in South America, only one being known to inhabit the United States,
being found in the extreme southern portion of Florida, and there only
rarely.
(1) =Callicore clymena=, Hübner, Plate XXI, Fig. 5, ♂; Fig. 6, ♂,
_under side_ (The Leopard-spot).
_Butterfly._--The wings on the upper side are black, the primaries
crossed by an oblique iridescent bluish-green band, and the secondaries
marked by a similarly colored marginal band. On the under side the
primaries are crimson from the base to the outer third, which is white,
margined with black, and crossed by an outer narrow black band and an
inner broad black band. The secondaries on this side are white, marked
about the middle by two large coalescing black spots, and nearer the
costa a large pear-shaped spot, both ringed about with black lines.
Beyond these black rings are two black bands conformed to the outline of
the inner and outer margins of the wing, and, in addition, a fine black
marginal line. The costa is edged with crimson. Expanse, 1.75 inch.
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