NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



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and south to the Gulf of Mexico ; British America north to latitude 

 10 degrees. 



GENUS XXXVII. 

 NEONYMPHA. QUAKER BUTTERFLIES. 

 Size, small, to medium. Colors dull, usually grayish, 

 frequeutly with eye spots on one or both surfaces. An- 

 tennae, short, with the club enlarging gradually. Front 

 wings triangular, with veins somewhat swollen at base, hind 

 pair oval. Type, N, eurytrts. (Plate VII, 2.) 



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 h ^ __ f 



a upper side, fore wing, Timetes chiron : b, upper side, fore wing, Limenitis wiedemcyerii; 

 c, same of L. disij^pus: d, same L. lorquini; e, lower side, fore wing, Apatura clyton ; f, lower side, 

 hind wing, A. leilia. 



NEONYMPHA CAN THUS Bd-Lec. 



Ten Spotted Quaker. 

 Size, rather large. Differs from the tj'pe N. eurytris in being larg- 

 er, in having nine eye spots above instead of five, and these are without 

 silver markings but are ringed with yellowish, Fig. 35, b, where is given 

 the upper side of hind wing. There is also a dusky band crossing out- 

 er portion of fore wing preceeded outwardly by a light band. Beneath, 

 the spots are ten, not six, and are double ringed, not single. Expands 

 1.85 to 2.16. Habitat, Northern States. Ontario, and Quebec. Occurs 

 in July. 



256. NEONYMPHA GEMMA Hub. 



Gem Quaker. 

 Size small. Differs from N. eurytris in being more rc<ldi?h In-own 

 and in having no markings above, excepting a slight indication of two 



