1788 BUTTERFLIES BEYOND NEW ENGLAND. 



yellow-green ; on either side of dorsum on abdomen is a small ridge, and on either side 

 of this are three black dots, placed in pairs between the mesonotum and extremity ; on 

 either side below wing cases a brown stripe; the keel of mesonotum brown, and the 

 wing cases are crocked along the principal nervures, and on the margin is a black dot at 

 the end of each nervule. Length, 10 mm. ; greatest breadth, 2.5 ram. Duration of 

 this stage thirteen days. 



This butterfly inhabits the southern half of the United States, from the 

 Atlantic Ocean to and including the Mississippi Valley. It also extends 

 beyond our border as far as Nicaragua (Butler), and occurs in the south- 

 ern part of our middle States. It flies in company with Neon3'mpha Cor- 

 nelius and Cissiaeurytus, according to Edwards, "keeping within the edge 

 of the forest, or, if in the open country, is always near timber." It is 

 double brooded in West Virginia, flying in Julj^ and again in the latter 

 part of the season. The eggs hatch in four days, the first stage of the 

 caterpillar lasts for six days, and the others about the same, while the chry- 

 salis hangs for thirteen days, so that the whole period from egg to butter- 

 fly is about seven weeks. How it passes the winter has not been stated. 



SUBFAMILY NYMPHALINAE. 



TRIBE APATURIDI. 



CHLORIPPE BOISDUVAL. 



CHLORIFFE CELTIS. 



Apatura celtis Boisd.-LeC, Lfip. Am6r. Ajyatura lycaon Ril., Trans, acad. sc. St. 



sept., 210-211, pi. 57, figs. 1-4 (1833) ;— Edw., Louis, iii: 195-198, figs. 3-4 (1873); Rep. ins. 



Butt. N. A., ii, Apatura i, 10 pp., 1 pi. (1875) ; Mo., vi ; 137-140, figs. 39, 40 (1874). 



—French, Butt. east. U. S., 215-217 (18S6). ? Apatura alicia Edw., Butt. N. Amer., i, 



Doxocopa lycaon Scudd., ,Syst. rev. Am. Apatura i, 2 pp., 1 pi. (1S68). 



butt., 9 (1872). [Not Papilio lycaou Fabricius] . 



Imago. Head covered above with soft, very pale brown-hairs; apical joint of palpi 

 covered with dark brown scales and hairs, the re.st of palpi silvery white, the dark 

 brown of the apical joint extending slightly upon the apical portion of the upper sur- 

 face of the middle joint and also flecking slightly the inner side; antennae blackish 

 brown, above narrowly annulate with pale yellow; beneath, tips of the joints luteous 

 and nearly naked throughout, excepting next the base, where it is flecked with pale 

 yellow scales; club wholly luteous on all surfaces, excepting the upper portion of the 

 basal half, which is heavily flecked with dark brown scales. 



Wings above sordid or gray fulvous ; on the fore wings, however, this ground color is 

 restricted to the basal third, the rest of the wing, including all beyond the cell, the 

 whole of the lower median interspace and half the medio-submedian interspace, dull 

 blackish brown; within this blackish brown portion, the wing is crossed by two rows 

 of conspicuous white spots, tlie inner row occasionally tinged with straw yellow; the 

 outer row consists of three large, roinidish white spots midway between the cell and 

 the outer border, lying in a straight line in the upper median, subcosto-median and 

 next to the lowest subcostal interspace, accompanied by a fourth smaller white spot, 

 often aimulate with black, in the lowest subcostal interspace farther toward the mar- 



