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The chrysalis is cylindrical, with a depression on the 

 dorsal portion near the anterior part, and several slight 

 elevations on the anterior part. Color brown, marked 

 with different shades of the same. 



Food-plant, violets. 



West Virginia to Georgia, Southern Ohio to Illinois, 

 Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas. 



39. Aegynnis Cybele, Fab. 



Expanse of wings from 3 to 3.5 inches. 



Upper surface fulvous or yellowish fulvous, the base 

 of the wing to the end of the cell, and below this to the 

 zigzag line, yellowish brown, there being more of the 

 yellow in the male. In the cell of the fore wings are 

 the usual five black bars, all but the fourth bent outward 

 in the lower half, the two outer united above. Beyond 

 the cell are the usual zigzag black line and the subter- 

 minal row of dots, the middle ones of the fore wings the 

 largest. Just within the outer margin is a terminal 

 narrow line, and within this, and on the fore wings, with 

 their points resting on this line, is a series of crescents ; 

 the fore wings edged with the same color. The cell of 

 the hind wings with three more or less distinct bars. 



Under side of fore wings pale yellowish brown, the 

 apical space yellowish and enclosing a bright brown 

 costal patch ; the lines and dots the same as above, but 

 near the apex more brown. The apical five or six of 

 the spaces enclosed within the submarginal crescents are 

 wholly or partly silver, with three silver patches within 

 this line. 



The hind wings have the basal two-thirds reddish 

 brown more or less mottled with yellow, the outer 



