Genus Eudamus 



and the third median nervule. The hind wing is without the 

 lower radial. and is always produced into a long tail. 



'^^^■•— The egg is more nearly globular than is true in most of 

 the genera, but is strongly flattened at the base and is marked 

 with a number of transverse longitudinal ridges, 

 somewhat widely separated, between which are 

 finer cross-lines. The micropyle at the summit is 

 deeply depressed. 



Caterpillar. — The caterpillar is cylindrical, taper- 

 ing rapidly from the middle forward and backward. 

 The head is much larger than the neck and is dis- 

 tinctly bilobed. 



Chrysalis. — The chrysalis is provided with a 

 somewhat hooked cremaster, is rounded at the head, 

 humped over the thorax, and marked on the dorsal 

 side of the abdominal segments with a few small 

 conical projections. The chrysalis is formed be- 

 tween leaves loosely drawn together with a few p^^ ica-^eu 



strands of silk. ration of the genus 



This genus is confined to the tropics of the New ^"^'^"""• 

 World, and is represented in the extreme southern portions of 

 the United States by the species figured in our plate — E. proteus. 



(i) Eudamus proteus, Linnseus, Plate XLV, Fig. 6, ? ; Plate 

 II, Fig. 34, larva; Plate VI, Fig. 2^, chrysalis (The Long-tailed 

 Skipper). 



Butterfly. — The upper side of the wings is brown, glossed 

 with green at the base of both wings. The spots on the pri- 

 maries of both sexes are alike, and are well represented in the 

 plate. On the under side the wings are pale brown; the pri- 

 maries are marked as on the upper side; the secondaries have the 

 anal portion and the tail dark brown; in addition they are crossed 

 by a short dark band at the end of the cell, and another similar 

 but longer postmedian band, which does not quite reach the costa 

 and loses itself below in the dark shade which covers the anal por- 

 tion of the wing. About the middle of the costa of the hind wings 

 are two small subquadrate black spots. Expanse, i. 60-1. 75 inch. 



Early Stages. — The plates give us representations based upon 

 Abbot's drawings of the mature caterpillar and the chrysalis. The 

 student who desires to know more may consult the pages of 

 Scudder's "Butterflies of New England." The caterpillar feeds 



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