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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 



easily taken with the net when once one learns their habits, for on 

 being disturbed they usually fly downward from the tree truidc on 

 which they are at rest, and the collector placing liis net beneath is 

 almost sure to be rewarded witli a capture. 



Ageroma ferona is gra^dsli brown with rings and irregular lines 

 of blue and black. There are a number of larg-e and small white or 

 light gray spots on the upper wings and a few on tlie lower pair. 



Ageronia ferona. Under side. 



The under side is much ligliter, Ijeing almost white, witli black 

 markings. In very fresh and perfect specimens there is a pinkish 

 tint with a satiny gloss over the whole surface beneath. 



In Ageronia fornax the upper side is colored much like tlie 

 preceding insect, but the under side of the lower wings is light 

 3^ellowish brown instead of white, and the large spots on the lower 

 wings of Ageronia ferona have almost disappeared in this species. 

 These two insects are occasionally taken in southern Texas. I know 

 nothing of the early stages of these butterflies. 



To the genera of Hypolimnas belongs a number of good-sized 

 handsome butterflies, generally dark in color, with purple and blue 

 reflections and large white spots. These butterflies are confined 

 almost wholly to the tropics of Asia, Africa and Oceanica and are 

 fiequently very abundant wliere they are found. 



