NORTH AMEIilCAN BUTTERFLIES. 95 



GENUS XXYII. 

 ANARTIA. SPOTTED AND BANDED BUTTERFLIES. 

 Size, medium. Colors, dull whitish cr pale brown, 

 banded, but not conspicuously, and spotted with darker. 

 Club of antennae, enlarging gradually. Fore wings, pro- 

 duced at apex, and the hind pair are provided with quite 

 a prominent angle near the middle of the outer border. 

 Type, A. jatrophae. (Plate, YI, 2.) 



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a, upper side, fore wing, Pyrameis caryc ; c, same, I', atalanta: b, lower side, liiiid wing, p, imn- 

 teta: upper side, hind wing, Vanessa antiopa. 



220 ANARTIA JATROPHAE Linn. 

 Yellow and white banded butterfly. 

 Size, medium. Above, silvery white, with a marginal band on out- 

 er border of both wings enclosing a double series of yellowish crescents. 

 Near middle of upper border of fore wing is an inconspicuous patch of 

 dusky brown, from which a narrow band of the same color crosses the 

 wing. There are two black-ringed spots of j'ellowish in the central cell 

 and a yellow-ringed black spot in the space between second and third 

 branches of the middle vein. Hind wings with two yellow-ringed black 

 spots on outer third, and a dusky zigzag line crosses the middle of the 

 wing. In the central cell are three dusky bars,from the inner of which 

 a ]>and crosses to the upper border. Beneath, the black dots are repeat 

 edand the dusky markings are reproduced in orange. Expands, l.oO 

 to 2.00. nabitat,Tezas,where it is rare.and southward through Mex- 

 ico and Central America. 



GENUS XXYIIL EUREMA. BANDED REDS. 

 Medium to small in size. Colors above usually very 

 bright, conspicuously banded w^ith darker. Beneath,dull. 

 The antennae are nearly as long as the body. Fore wings 



