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
_Early Stages._--These have been partially described and figured by
Edwards.
This species has thus far been found only in Colorado at an elevation of
from ten to twelve thousand feet above sea-level.
There are two or three other species of this obscure genus, but they are
rare boreal insects, of which little is as yet known.
Genus GEIROCHEILUS, Butler
_Butterfly._--Medium-sized butterflies, dark in color, with light
eye-like spots on the primaries and brown borders on the secondaries.
The antennæ are short, with a gradually tapering club; the palpi are
long, slender, compressed, well clothed with scales on the lower
surface. The costa of the fore wings is strongly arched, the outer
margin evenly rounded, the outer margin of the hind wings regularly
scalloped. The costal vein of the primaries is somewhat thickly swollen
at the base.
_Early Stages._--Unknown.
[Illustration FIG. 119.--Neuration of the genus _Geirocheilus_.]
(1) =Geirocheilus tritonia=, Edwards, Plate XVIII, Fig. 21, ♂ (Tritonia).
_Butterfly._--The wings of the upper side are dark brown, with a
submarginal row of white-centered ocelli below the apex of the
primaries. The secondaries are marked with a submarginal band of red. On
the under side the fore wings are as on the upper side. The hind wings
have the submarginal band purplish-red, irrorated with whitish and
dark-brown scales, on the inner edge relieved by a number of imperfectly
developed ocelli, which are partially ringed about on the side of the
base by pale yellow.
_Early Stages._--Unknown.
_Tritonia_ occurs in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
Genus NEOMINOIS, Scudder
_Butterfly._--Medium-sized, with the costa and inner margin of the fore
wing straight, the outer margin of the same wing evenly rounded. The
hind wings have the outer margin evenly rounded, and the costal margin
quite strongly produced, or bent at an angle, just above the origin of
the costal vein. The inner margin is straight. The costal vein of the
fore wing is slightly swollen. The costal margin at the extremity of the
second costal nervule is slightly bent inward; the upper discocellular
vein is wanting; the lower radial vein is emitted from the lower
discocellular a little below the point at which it unites with the
middle discocellular. The middle discocellular of the hind wing appears
as an inward continuation of the lower radial for some distance, when it
bends upward suddenly to the origin of the upper radial. The head is
small; the antennæ are short, with a thin, gradually developed club; the
palpi are slender, compressed, well clothed with long hairs below.
[Illustration FIG. 120.--Neuration of the genus _Neominois_, enlarged.]
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