Genus Eudamus 
and the third median nervule. The hind wing is without the 
lower radial and is always produced into a long tail. 
Egg. —The egg is more nearly globular than is true in most of 
the genera, but is strongly flattened at the base and is marked 
with a number of transverse longitudinal ridges, 
somewhat widely separated, between which are 
finer cross-lines. The micropyle at the summit is 
deeply depressed. 
Caterpillar. —The caterpillar is cylindrical, taper¬ 
ing rapidly from the middle forward and backward. 
The head is much larger than the neck and is dis¬ 
tinctly bilobed. 
Chrysalis.— The chrysalis is provided with a 
somewhat hooked cremaster, is rounded at the head, 
humped over the thorax, and marked on the dorsal 
side of the abdominal segments with a few small 
conical projections. The chrysalis is formed be¬ 
tween leaves loosely drawn together with a few 
strands of silk. 
This genus is confined to the tropics of the New 
World, and is represented in the extreme southern portions of 
the United States by the species figured in our plate — E. proteus. 
(i) Eudamus proteus, Linnaeus, Plate XLV, Fig. 6, $ ; Plate 
II, Fig. 34, larva; Plate VI, Fig. 23, chrysalis (The Long-tailed 
Skipper). 
Butterfly.—The upper side of the wings is brown, glossed 
with green at the base of both wings. The spots on the pri¬ 
maries of both sexes are alike, and are well represented in the 
plate. On the under side the wings are pale brown; the pri¬ 
maries are marked as on the upper side; the secondaries have the 
anal portion and the tail dark brown; in addition they are crossed 
by a short dark band at the end of the cell, and another similar 
but longer postmedian band, which does not quite reach the costa 
and loses itself below in the dark shade which covers the anal por¬ 
tion of the wing. About the middle of the costa of the hind wings 
are two small subquadrate black spots. Expanse, 1.60-1.75 inch. 
Early Stages.— The plates give us representations based upon 
Abbot’s drawings of the mature caterpillar and the chrysalis. The 
student who desires to know more may consult the pages of 
Scudder’s “Butterflies of New England.” The caterpillar feeds 
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Fig. 152.—Neu- 
ration of the genus 
Eudamus. 
