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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



FIG. 47. 



with the legs, is a single small tubercle with a short 



branching spine. Joints 2 and 3, part 

 of joint 4, and the last two or three 

 joints are black ; the others are deep 

 reddish fulvous striped transversely with 

 black. 



The chrysalis (Fig. 47) is shaped 

 much as in Argynnis, the abdomen and 

 thorax furnished with several rows of 

 tubercles. Color white, marked and 

 spotted with brownish black, the tuber- 



M. Phaeton, pupa. 



cles orange. 



The food-plants are Chelone glabra, 

 Lonicera ciliata, and Viburnum dentatum. 

 United States east of the Rocky Mountains. 



48. MELIT^A HARKISII, Scud. 



Expanse of wings from 1.5 to 1.75 inches. 



Upper surface of wings fulvous, the basal half and 

 terminal border black, with five fulvous spots in the 

 cell of the fore wings, two more below the cell, and 

 three in the cell of the hind w T ings. The base is not 

 wholly black, but is sprinkled with fulvous scales. The 

 border of the fore wings is broadest at the apex, where 

 it contains two pale dots ; below this it extends inward 

 along the veins. Towards the anal angle it is more 

 broken up, so as to present a black edge and two in- 

 distinct lines. 



On the under side the wings are fulvous, with a large 

 black subapical patch, which sends backward a subter- 

 minal band, with two rows of white spots extending 

 more or less through it. There are four black bars in 



