238 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



top, upon each vertex u short semiovoid appendage 

 tipped with two divergent black hairs; color black. 

 Moults after eight days. 



After the first moult the body is a little arched ; tails 

 longer, faintly red. Color of body green, surface thickly 

 covered with fine yellowish tubercular points ; the back 

 of the head and triangle over the mandibles green, the 

 rest red-brown. It is now .22 of an inch long. It moults 

 again in nine days, with a length of .3 of an inch, but 

 the color does not change. It moults three times in 

 coming to maturity. 



The mature larva is from 1.1 to 1.3 inches long, 

 joints 3 and 4 creased and divided into five ridges, the 

 rest into six ; surface thickly covered with small sharp 

 tubercles ; tails reddish, slender. Head reddish, on each 

 vertex a little conical process. 



The chrysalis is from .48 to .54 of an inch long. The 

 color is green, the edges of the carina, wing-cases, and 

 top of head-case cream color ; some points and patches 

 of whitish. The butterfly emerges from this in about 

 ten days. 



The food-plants are grasses, mostly of the coarser 

 kinds. 



Gulf States ; occasional in New Jersey. 



85. NEONYMPHA EURYTRIS, Fab. 



Expanse of wings from 1.5 to 1.75 inches. 



Upper surface brownish black or wood-brown ; near 

 the outer margin of each wing two eye-spots circled with 

 yellow, the small pupils often double. The anterior 

 ocellus of the hind wings is often obsolete, and the pos- 

 terior is often supplemented by a small one at the anal 



