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? y .-r so easily recognizable by the figure we give on Plate LIV that 

 nothing more need be said, except that it has a wide range 

 through the American tropics, being found in southern Florida 

 and Texas, the Greater Antilles, and from Mexico to southern 

 Brazil. Expanse 3.75-4.00 inches. 



GENUS PYRRHAN^EA SCHATZ 



Medium-sized butterflies. Front wings falcate at apex; 

 hind wings tailed at end of third median nervule. Costal 

 margin of fore wing angulated at base, inner margin straight. 

 Upper side of wings generally fulvous or red; lower side mottled 

 and marked so as to resemble dried leaves.- Egg spheroid, 

 flattened at base, depressed on top, marked with a few rows of 

 raised points about summit. Caterpillar with head globular, 

 first segment behind it much smaller than head; body cylin- 

 drical tapering behind. Chrysalis short, stout, keeled on sides; 

 cremaster globular at tip, and so arranged as to cause the 

 chrysalis to hang at a slant. 



This is a large genus characteristic of the American tropics. 

 The larvae feed on euphorbiaceous and lauraceous plants, after 

 the third moult making hiding-places for themselves by rolling 

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