68 THE COMMONER BUTTERFLIES. 



3. Genus Cincltdia. 



CINCLIDIA HAKRfsiI— HARRIS'S BUTTERFLY. 



(Melitaea barrisii, Phyciodes liarrisii.) 



Butterfly. — Upper surface of wings nearly black, the fore 

 wings with a broad sinuous band of dull orange across the middle 

 broken by the black veins, followed outwardly by a sinuous row 

 of similar unequal spots and inwardly by a few irregular orange 

 spots ; hind wings with most of the disk dull orange, begrimed 

 with black and cut by black veins. Under surface brownish 

 orange, the veins mostly black, marked with usually black-edged 

 white spots, conspicuous on the hind wings where the median 

 spots are sordid cut by a black line, the subbasal and lunular 

 subapical spots shining. Expanse If inches. 



Caterpillar.— Head shining black, summits tuberculate and 

 low conical. Body spined, tapering on the thoracic segments, 

 deep orange with a black dorsal line, and ringed narrowly with 

 black stripes throughout ; spines jet-black, a little shorter than 

 the segments, covered with black needles set on papillae ; they 

 are arranged as in Euphydryas excepting that there is no spine 

 on the third thoracic segment in the row just below the spiracles. 

 Length nearly 1 inch. 



Chrysalis.— Snow-white, marked much as in Euphydryas 

 phaeton, but with the darker markings mostly confined to edgings 

 of the orange tubercles. Legs white tipped with black. No dis- 

 tinct tubercles on the eighth abdominal segment, but their place 

 marked by spots. Length ^ inch. 



The eggs, wliich are shaped as in Euphydryas but with a 

 smaller summit, are pale lemon-yellow and are laid in 

 patches of tw^enty or more in a closely-crowded single layer 

 on the under side of a leaf of the food-plant; their period 

 in unknown. So far as know^n, tlie caterpillars have but a 

 single food-plant, Aster {Doelliiigeria) iniibellatus. They 

 first eat the parenchyma of the under surface of the leaf on 

 which they are born and then move in company down the 

 plant, devouring the parenchyma of each surface of every 

 leaf as they go, covering everything wath a thin w^b, 

 beneath and upon which they live until the end of the 



