264 MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 



Another form, Junonia lavhiia, is lighter in general coloring 

 than either of the preceding, l)ut is marked very similar to the 

 last named species. The upper wings are more pointed, and the 

 lower pair have more prominent points on their outer mai'gins 

 than our other native species. 



Junouia geiioveva. Female. 



Some of the most beautiful as well as the most widely distributed 

 and best known butterflies are included in the three genera of Pyra- 

 meis, Vanessa and Grapta. 



In Pyrameis the wings are scalloped, but not angular, the larvse 

 are armed with branching spines, and tliey live a solitary life within 

 a rolled leaf. The chrysalides are angular on the sides, and on the 

 back of the thorax is a sharp ridge. IJows of small tubercles follow 

 down the back of the abdomen. The chrysalides are often objects of 

 great beauty, looking as if made in part or wholly of gold, and 

 highly polished. This brilliant coloring is gradually lost as the time 

 for the hatching of tlie ])utterfly draws near. 



A very pretty butterfly is Pyrameis atalanta, and the bars of 

 orange red on its dark wings make it a very conspicuous object, and 

 one of the first to adorn the cabinet of the young entomologist. It 

 frequently hibernates over winter and is among the earliest butter- 

 flies to make its appearance in the spring, tliougli such specimens are 

 usuallv very nuu;h faded and worn and look as if the fiosts of winter 



