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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



Fia. 49. 



tapering, black, each thickly set with long, divergent 

 black hairs. 



The chrysalis (Fig. 49) is cylindrical, but 

 with a small depression on the back of the 

 thorax, abdomen with several rows of sub- 

 conic tubercles. Color pure white, marked 

 and spotted with black, or brown-black and 

 orange. 



The food-plants are Aster and Diplopappus 

 umbellatus, and the imago is to be seen in 

 June. 

 New England, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Il- 

 linois. 



49. Phyciodes Nycteis, Doub. — Hew. 



Expanse of wings from 1.5 to 1.75 inches. 

 Upper surface fulvous, a broad black terminal border, 

 on the fore wings broadest at the apex, enclosing a sub- 

 terminal row of fulvous 

 Fig. 50. spots, more distinct in the 



female than in the male. 

 At the end of the cell is 

 a broad black patch con- 

 nected by a line with a 

 smaller one on the sub- 

 median vein (see Fig. 50). 

 In the cell and below 

 it several indistinct black 

 marks, the base black, this extending outward along the 

 costa and hind margin to the black patches. 



The hind wings have the basal half marked the same 

 as the fore wings, though sometimes more suffused. 



I'hyciodes Nycteis, male (natural size). 



