Genus Euptoieta 
within the United States, and range southwardly over the greater 
portion of Central and South America. 
(i) Euptoieta claudia, Cramer, Plate VIII, Fig. 9, $ (The 
Variegated Fritillary). 
Butterfly .—-The upper side of both wings is dull ferruginous, 
darker toward the base, crossed by an irregular black median 
line, which is darker, broader, and more zigzag on the fore wing 
than on the hind wing. This line is followed outwardly on both 
wings by a pair of more or less wavy limbal lines, inclosing 
between them a series of round blackish spots. The outer mar¬ 
gin is black, with the fringes pale fulvous, checkered with black 
at the end of each nervule. At the end of the cell in the fore 
wing there are two black lines inclosing paler fulvous spots, and 
both wings near the base have some curved black lines. On the 
under side the fore wings are marked somewhat as on the upper 
side, but paler in color, with a large apical patch of brownish- 
gray broken by a transverse band of darker brown. The hind 
wings are dark brown, with the markings of the upper side 
obscurely repeated; they are mottled with gray and crossed by a 
broad central band of pale buff. 
The species varies very much, according to locality, both in size 
and in the depth of the markings. Expanse, 1.75-2.75 inches. 
Egg .— The egg is conoidal, relatively taller than the eggs of 
the genus Argynnis , which closely resemble it. There is a 
depression at the apex, surrounded by a serrated rim, formed by 
the ends of the vertical ribs, of which there are about twenty, 
some longer and some shorter, about half of them reaching from 
the apex to the base. Between these vertical ribs there are a 
multitude of smaller cross-ridges. 
Caterpillar .— The caterpillar is cylindrical, reddish-yellow in 
color, marked with two brown lateral bands and a series of white 
spots upon the back. There are six rows of short branching 
spines upon the body, which are black in color; the two upper¬ 
most of these spines on the first segment are much elongated 
and are directed forward. The head is smaller than the body in 
the mature caterpillar, and is black. On the under side the cater¬ 
pillar is pale or whitish; the legs are blackish-brown. It feeds 
upon the passion-flower. 
Chrysalis .— The chrysalis is pearly-white, marked with black 
spots and longitudinal streaks, 
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