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
This species is occasionally found in New England, and ranges thence
westward to Michigan, and southward to the Gulf States. It is quite
common in the valley of the Ohio.
(7) =Chlorippe flora=, Edwards, Plate XXIII, Fig. 1, ♂; Fig. 2, ♀
(Flora).
_Butterfly_, ♂.--The ground-color is bright reddish-fulvous on the upper
side. The usual markings occur, but there is no eye-spot, or ocellus, on
the primaries. The hind wings are not heavily obscured with dark brown,
as in _clyton_, and the six ocelli stand forth conspicuously upon the
reddish ground. The hind wings are more strongly angulated than in any
other species. The borders are quite solidly black.
♀.--The female is much larger than the male, and looks like a very pale
female of _clyton_. Expanse, ♂, 1.75 inch; ♀, 2.35 inches.
_Early Stages._--The life-history has been described by Edwards in the
"Canadian Entomologist," vol. xiii, p. 81. The habits of the insect in
its early stages and the appearance of the larva and chrysalis do not
differ widely from those of _C. clyton_, its nearest ally.
_Flora_ is found in Florida and on the borders of the Gulf to Texas.
Genus PYRRHANÆA, Schatz
(The Leaf-wings)
_Butterfly._--Medium-sized butterflies, on the upper side of the wings
for the most part red or fulvous, on the under side of the wings
obscurely mottled on the secondaries and the costal and apical tracts of
the primaries in such a manner as to cause them to appear on this side
like rusty and faded leaves. Structurally they are characterized by the
somewhat falcate shape of the primaries and the strongly produced outer
margin of the secondaries about the termination of the third median
nervule. The first and second subcostal nervules coalesce with one
another and with the costal vein. The costal margin of the fore wing at
the base is strongly angulated, and the posterior margin of the
primaries is straight. The cell of the secondaries is very feebly
closed.
_Egg._--Spherical, flattened at the base and somewhat depressed at the
apex, with a few parallel horizontal series of raised points about the
summit.
_Caterpillar._--Head somewhat globular in appearance; the anterior
portion of the first thoracic segment of the body is much smaller in
diameter than the head; the body is cylindrical, tapering to a point.
_Chrysalis._--Short, stout, with transverse ridges above the wings on
the middle of the abdomen, keeled on the sides. The cremaster is small
and furnished with a globular tip, the face of which is on the same
plane as the ventral surface of the body, causing the chrysalis to hang
somewhat obliquely from the surface which supports it.
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