248 ^^^ BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



cream-colored lines. The female has three longitiidmal 

 yellowish bands. The butterfly emerges in fourtecD 

 days. 



The larva feeds on meadow-grass, and the butterfly is 

 found mostly in the open fields, differing in both par- 

 ticulars from Pegala. 



89. Chionobus Jutta, Hiib. 



Expanse of wings from 2 to 2.25 inches. 



Male. — Upper surface wood-brown or grayish brown . 

 the fore wings with an oblique shade below the cell, and 

 with a subterminal row of six yellowish spots, the first, 

 third, and sixth small, with or without black central 

 points, the others with each a round black spot. Hind 

 wings with four yellowish patches more or less shading 

 into the ground color, the anal one with a small black 

 spot, and traces of one in the patch next to this. 



Under side of the fore wings much as in C. Semidea. 

 Color about as above, crossed by a great number of ab- 

 breviated dark brown lines, obscure on the fore wings, 

 except along the costa and near the apex, where the 

 brown is more distinct and alternate with gray. About 

 five of the yellowish patches are visible, only two of 

 them distinct, and these have round black spots pupilled 

 with white. The hind wings are much darker than the 

 fore wings, and the dark marks are not distinctly defined ; 

 sprinkled with white scales over the basal third, and an 

 irregular band of these beyond the cell and along the 

 outer margin ; a submarginal row of intervenular white 

 points. 



Female. — Upper surface of fore wings as in the male, 

 only the yellowish patches are expanded and somewhat 



