Genus Pyrrhaneea 



and the reader who wishes to know all about it should consult the 

 writings of Edwards and Scudder. 



This species is occasionally found in New England, and ranges 

 thence westward to Michigan, and southward to the Gulf States. 

 It is quite common in the valley of the Ohio. 



(7) Chlorippe flora, Edwards, Plate XXIll, Fig. 1,6; Fig. 

 2, ? (Flora). 



Butterfly, ^ . — The ground-color is bright reddish-fulvous on 

 the upper side. The usual markings occur, but there is no eye- 

 spot, or ocellus, on the primaries. The hind wings are not 

 heavily obscured with dark brown, as in clyton, and the six 

 ocelli stand forth conspicuously upon the reddish ground. The 

 hind wings are more strongly angulated than in any other 

 species. The borders are quite solidly black. 



? . — The female is much larger than the male, and looks like a 

 very pale female of <;/y/o«. Expanse, (5,i.75inch; ?, 2.35 inches. 



Early Stages. — The life-history has been described by Edwards 

 in the "Canadian Entomologist," vol. xiii, p. 81. The habits of 

 the insect in its early stages and the appearance of the larva and 

 chrysalis do not differ widely from those of C. clyton, its nearest ally. 



Flora is found in Florida and on the borders of the Gulf to 

 Texas. 



Genus PYRRHAN^A, Schatz 

 (The Leaf-wings) 



Butterfly. — Medium-sized butterflies, on the upper side of the 

 wings for the most part red or fulvous, on the under side of the 

 wings obscurely mottled on the secondaries and the costal and 

 apical tracts of the primaries in such a manner as to cause them to 

 appear on this side like rusty and faded leaves. Structurally they 

 are characterized by the somewhat falcate shape of the primaries 

 and the strongly produced outer margin of the secondaries about 

 the termination of the third median nervule. The first and second 

 subcostal nervules coalesce with one another and with the costal 

 vein. The costal margin of the fore wing at the base is strongly 

 angulated, and the posterior margin of the primaries is straight. 

 The cell of the secondaries is very feebly closed. 



Egg. — Spherical, flattened at the base and somewhat depressed 

 at the apex, with a few parallel horizontal series of raised points 

 about the summit. 



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