EASTERN UNITED STATES. 377 



blunt conical ; the dorsum from near the head nearly 

 straight, as shown in Fig. 90 ; the ventral side strongly 

 ventricose, tapering abruptly from the end of the wing- 

 cases to the tip of the abdomen, the cremaster a some- 

 what triangular piece, .06 of an inch long. Color red- 

 dish brown, finely mottled and spotted with dark brown, 

 the end of the humerus blackish brown, with two smaller 

 spots between them. Stigmata and eyes darker than the 

 general color. 



There are two or more broods of these butterflies in 

 a season, the last brood hibernating in the pupa state, 

 while the others emerge from the chrysalides in about 

 two weeks. 



United States generally. 



197. EUDAMUS PROTEUS, Linn. 



Expanse of wings from 1.9 to 2 inches. 



Upper surface dark olive-brown ; base of fore wings, 

 basal half of hind wings, and upper part of body with 

 light green hairs. The fore wings have an oblique 

 transverse row of four whitish hyaline spots, extending 

 from the costa near the middle to near the posterior 

 angle. These spots are in the same position as the 

 spots composing similar bands in E. Zestos, Tityrus, etc. ; 

 but they diifer in being of about the same size and 

 separated by the dark brown veins, the one in the cell 

 constricted a little in the middle, the lower three near 

 one another only at their corners. Beyond this band is a 

 spot in the first median interspace, also constricted in the 

 middle ; and beyond the cell is an anteapical row of five 

 spots, curved, the first two spots oblong, the third nearly 

 quadrate, the fourth and fifth elongate in the direction 

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