GENUS ANOSIA HUBNER 



Butterfly, large or medium-sized; fore wings triangular, pro- 

 duced; hind wings rounded, the inner margins clasping the 

 abdomen when at rest; apex, outer margins, and veins, dark; 

 male with sex-mark on first median nervule of hind wing. 

 Egg ovate conical, ribbed perpendicularly and horizontally. 

 Larva cylindrical, with long, dark, fleshy filaments before and 

 behind; body usually pale in color, ringed with dark bands. 

 Chrysalis pendant, stout, cylindrical, abdomen rapidly 

 tapering, and ending in long cremaster; pale, with metallic 

 spots. 



A large genus, many species being found in the tropics of 

 both hemispheres, but only two in the United States. The 

 insects are "protected," being distasteful to other animals, 

 thus escaping attack. 



(1) Anosia plexippus (Linnaeus), The Monarch, Plate I, cf; 

 Plate C, Fig. g, egg; Figs, a-c, larva pupating; Fig. d, chrysalis. 



Upper side of wings reddish brown, apex, margins, and veins 

 black, under side paler; a double row of whitish spots on outer 

 borders, apex crossed by two bands of light spots. Expanse 

 of wings 3.25 to 4.25 inches. Egg pale green. Caterpillar 



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