NORTH AMERICAN BTTTTERFLIES. 91 



GENUS XXIY. 

 YANESSA. PICTURED BUTTErtFLIES. 



Size, medium to large. Colors reddish or dark above, 

 often banded or spotted . duller below, without the silvery 

 C in middle of hind wing. Wings large, scalloped, not 

 notched. Palpi and body, densely hairy. Antennae, 

 shorter than the bodv, with the club suddenly enlarged. 

 Hibernates as a perfect insect. Type, Y. milbertii. (Plate 

 Y, 3.) 



220. YANESSA ANTIOPA Linn. 



Yellow-bordered Butterfly. 



Size, larger than that of the type. Deep purpliiih brown above, 

 bordered on outer margin of both wings with yellow, in which are black 

 transverse markings, Avithin this, is a black band, in which is a row of 

 purphsh spots, and within this, on upper margin of fore wings, are two 

 yellow spots, and this margin is black, finely marked with yellow, Fig. 

 32, d. Beneath, shining black, marked with black in narrow, zigzag 

 lines, the yellow border is present but paler, and also the spots at apex 

 of fore wings, but reduced in size. Expands, 2.40 to 3. GO. Habitat^ 

 whole of North America. Lintnerii Fitch, is a reversion, with the out- 

 er yellow border widened, paler in color, and without purple sub-margin- 

 al spots. 



221 YANESSA CALIFORNICA Bd. 



Calafornia Pictured Butterfly. 

 Size of Y. milbertii, reddish orange on fore wings, with three con- 

 spicous black spots, on upper border of fore wing, and three black spots, 

 on wing below them. There is a sub-apical whitish spot, and both wings 

 are bordered with black, without blue spots. Beneath, duller, brownish 

 at base of wings, with a black, zigzag, dividing line. Habitat, California, 

 Oregon, Nevada, and Colorado. 



222. YANESSA :\11LBERTII Godt. 

 jMllbert's Butterfly. 

 Dark reddish brown above, with a sub-marginal band of reddish 

 orange, paler within, divided on upper border of fore wing by a broAvn 

 spot, and the outer division is whitish, within this, on fore wings, are 



