68 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 
each side of this on each segment from four to eleven is an 
indistinct patch. The basal ridge is yellowish, and the tails 
are tipped with red. The whole surface is covered with sharp 
tubercles of irregular size, from each of which arises a short 
brown hair. Head yellowish brown, finely tuberculated, the 
vertices a little produced, the face crossed by three rows of 
rounded brown patches. 
The pupa is half an inch long, suspended by the tail only, 
cylindrical, the abdomen stout and larger than the remaining 
part. Color, pale yellowish brown. Duration of this stage, 
eleven days. 
34. NEONYMPHA CANTHUS, L. 
Ne-o-nym’-pha can’-thus. 
Expanse of wings, two inches. 
Upper side of wings, pale yellowish brown or wood brown ; 
a searcely perceptible pale band across the outer part of the 
wings, leaving an angle of the darker ground color apparent 
beyond the end of the cell. The outer margins of the wings 
have a pale narrow border, through the middle of which runs 
a dark line. The fore wings have four small black eye-spots 
on the pale band, and the hind wings have six. 
Under side of wings lighter than above, and crossed by 
two irregular wavy lines, and the outer borders the same 
as above. Five eye-spots on the fore wings and six on the 
hind wings. These spots have a silvery white center on a 
black spot, which is ringed with pale yellow, followed by a 
ring of the general ground color, outside of which is a paler 
ring. 
This is a common insect in Maine, feeding on grass, and 
passing the winter in the larval state. 
The eggs are laid singly on the stems of grass, are greenish 
white, nearly globular, and with the surface slightly rough, 
but without definite markings. They hatch in about seven 
days, the young larva being .09 of an inch long, yellowish 
