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CALLIDRYAS EUBULE. 



PLATE VIII. Fig. 1. 



Pap. Eubule, Linn. Cramer, PI. 120, F, C— Caterpillar, Stall's 

 Supp. to Cramer, PI. 3, fig. 1, A. — Callidryas Eubule. 

 Boisd. Species general, i. 613. 



This insect so closely resembles C. Marcellina that 

 it is possible they would still have continued to be 

 confounded, as they were by the earlier entomolo- 

 gists, had not the different appearance of the cater- 

 pillar indicated their essential distinction. In the 

 male the surface of the wings is a fine citron-yellow, 

 with a narrow border of a deeper hue ; the fringe 

 of all the wings marked at remote intervals with 

 small rust-coloured spots. Beneath the colour is 

 red, or brownish-yellow; the upper wings with a 

 double ferruginous spot at the extremity of the 

 discoidal cell, and a brownish zig-zag ray towards 

 the outer margin; the under wings likewise with 

 two rounded discoidal spots, silvery in the centre, 

 and surrounded by a rust-coloured ring ; there are 

 likewise several undulating brown lines running 

 across the surface more or less distinctly defined. 

 The female is bright yellow inclining to orange, the 

 inferior wings much rounded, and having an orange- 

 coloured fringe interrupted with transverse brown 



