1794 BUTTERFLIES BEYOND NEW ENGLAND. 



The transformations of several species are partially known. The cater- 

 pillars feed upon apetalous plants of allied families, Lauraceae, Piperaceae, 

 Euphorbiaceae, and have some strangely curious habits. In the first half 

 of their lives they live openly, devouring a single leaf from the tip base- 

 ward, when not feeding resting on the spared midrib, and leaving bits of 

 eaten leaf strung along the midrib by silken threads. When partly grown 

 they change their habits completely, construct a nest from a single leaf just 

 large enough for their body, which, whether it be a living leaf or one which 

 by detachment dries up, they always quit to feed, retiring thereto imme- 

 diately thereafter. The resemblance these habits bear to those of our 

 Basilarchia, and the divergencies of the same are particularly interesting 

 and worthy of study. It may throw some light upon the origin of the 

 habits of one or the other type, especially in the particular custom of 

 attaching frass to the midrib of the eaten leaf. It is the more curious, as 

 these insects belong to different tribes of Nymphalinae. 



ANAEA ANCRIA. 



Anaea andria Sciukl., BulJ. Buff. soc. nat. Paphia troglodyts French, Butt. east. U.S., 



sc, ii:24S{1875). 226-229 (1886] ;— Edw., Can. ent., xx : 41-45 



Paphia rjlycerinm Morr., Syn. Lep. N. {]888). 

 Amer., 67 (1862) ;— Ril., Amer. ent., ii : 121-123, 



figs. 81-83 (1870);— Edw., Butt. N. Amer., i, [Not Paphia glycerium Doubl.; nor Pap. 



Paphia 3 pp., 1 pi. ( 1871). troglodyta Fabr.] 



Imago. Head covered above with vinous brown hairs ; palpi gray, delicately varie- 

 gated with darker and lighter brown, pallid, dark orange and yellow scales; antennae 

 uniformly black brown above, beneath ferruginous, heavily flecked at the base of each 

 joint with white scales; the club luteo-ferrugiuous beneath, above like the stalk, with 

 the apical joint naked, ferruginous. 



Wings above either rich dark orange, margined more or less deeply and distinctly with 

 brown {$); or, sordid, dull, and rather pale orange, heavily margined with darkbrown 

 and with a very irregular, transverse, broad, paler band crossing both the wings, 

 edged on either side with dark brown (?) ; the brown edging of the wings Is dark, 

 generally not distinctly bordered on the inner side, at least in the male, and toward 

 the outer edge covered with a bluish bloom in fresh specimens ; there is a narrow, 

 transverse bar of blackish brown at the extremity of the cell of the /ore toings, much 

 more distinct in some specimens than in others ; the transverse stripe of the female 

 fades out before reaching the inner margin below, generally stopping at the subme- 

 dian nervure ; above, it forks, one fork directed toward the apex of the wing, the other 

 at right angles to the costal margin ; the extra-mesial belt of the hind wings in the 

 female is formed of two portions narrowly united at their corners, the upper occupy- 

 ing more than half of the apical half of the costo-subcostal interspace, the remainder 

 a belt broadening from above downward, fading out in the lower half of the wing; the 

 blackish brown inner edge of this band is generally seen to a greater or less extent in 

 the male. 



Beneath uniform dry-leaf brown, more or less glaucous, the female generally with a 

 strong vinous or ferruginous tint ; the markings of the upper surface merely indicated 

 below, and the whole of the wings flecked with minute spots or transverse threads of 

 dark brown ; the male is therefore much more uniform than the female, but, as 

 special markings, are often found a pre-marginal series of clay brown points in the inter- 

 spaces of the upper half of all the wings, besides a similar clustering of clay brown 



