A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



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along the veins, but if so his specimens may have been a different 

 species,* or the var. strigosa. 



According to the notes of Miss Victoria Hayward, it is found 

 not uncommonly all the year. She describes the color as darker 

 than in A. plexippus, and the larva is said by her to have three pairs 

 of long filaments, the additional pair being near the middle, on the 

 5th ring ; the pupa is smaller, cream-color, tinged with green and 

 dotted with silky golden specks on the front side, beside the semi- 

 circle on the ventral side. 



Figure 125. — Queen Butterfly (Anosia berenice, var. strigosa) ; male ; upper side ; 



| natural size ; phot, by A. H. V. 



The larva of typical berenice is described as pale violet, with trans- 

 verse stripes of darker ; a transverse band of reddish brown on each 

 segment, divided by a yellow band ; a longitudinal stripe of yellow 

 along the feet; filaments brownish purple, a pair on the 2d, 5th, and 

 1 1 th segments. It feeds on Asclepias and oleander. 



The typical berenice (see Holland, Butterfly Book, p. 84, pi. vii, 

 fig. 2, and fig. 3, var. strigosa) is smaller than plexippus, and decidedly 

 darker; ground-color of wings above dark rufous- or tawny-brown, 

 both pairs bordered with blackish-brown, wider on the hind wings, 

 on which there may be no white spots, in the male ; usually with 

 two rows in the female; but var. strigosa usually has a single row 

 of small white spots ; on the fore wings there are many small spots 

 of white near apex and two submarginal rows on the black band. 

 The hind wings of the female beneath have wide brown borders to 

 the veins, but in var. strigosa Bangs, they are bordered with a pale 



* A southern butterfly that might well occur here (Agraulis, or I>i<»i<\ oanillce) 

 is very similar in color, and might easily be confounded with this species by one 

 not familiar with the butterflies. 



