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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



band containing a row of blue spots. The costa is 

 mottled with yellow and contains two yellow patches. 



Under surface traversed by numerous fine black ab- 

 breviated lines, the outer margin pale buff sprinkled 

 with brown, and preceded by a series of confluent gray, 

 blue-black-edged lunules. 



Aberrant form, LINTNERII, Fitch. This form differs 

 from the one usually seen in having the outer pale bor- 

 der twice as wide as in the typical Antiopa, occupying 

 one-third the length of the wing, and in being wholly 

 destitute of the blue spots. The general color is more 

 reddish ; the costal margin is black, with small whitish 

 transverse streaks, but destitute of the two patches. 



Another form has " the broad outer border of a tar- 

 nished pale ochre-yellow, hue, speckled with black the 

 same as Antiopa, and becomes quite narrow at the anal 

 angle. The wings beneath are similar to those of Antiopa, 

 but are darker and without any sprinkling of ash-gray 

 scales or any whitish crescent in the middle of 

 the hind pair, and the border is sprinkled with 

 gray whitish in wavy streaks, without forming 

 the distinct band which is seen in Antiopa." 

 This is Mr. Bunker's description, stripped of 

 a few superfluous words, of a specimen taken 

 near Rochester, New York. 



The female deposits the eggs in a cluster 

 round the twigs of willow, elm, or poplar 

 near the petiole of a young leaf, upon which 

 the young larvse may feed. The mature larvse 

 are two inches long, black, minutely dotted 

 with white, which gives them a grayish look ; with a 

 dorsal row of brick-red spots. Head black, roughened 



Cluster of 



eggs of V. 



Antiopa, 



X2. 



