THE NYMPHS 



The Variegated Fritillary 



Euptoieta claudia (Eup-toi-e'ta clau'di-a) 



Fig. 33 ; and Plate XVIII, Fig. 3, 4 



This species agrees with the preceding in having the apex 

 of the fore wings produced so that the outer margin is con- 

 cave ; but differs in lacking silvery spots on the lower surface. 

 The wings are fulvous ; both pairs are crossed by a common 

 paler band, and marked with black and blackish fuscous. 

 The under surface of the wings is beautifully marbled with 

 brown and whitish. 



Caterpillar. — Length one and one-fourth inches. The 

 body is orange red with two dark stripes extending along each 

 side enclosing whitish blotches, which taken together make 

 an interrupted whitish band along the side. There are six 

 rows of thorny spines on the body ; the top pair on the first 

 segment point forward over the head. 



Food-plants. — Passion-flower, mandrake, stone crop, tick 

 foil, portulacca, violet. 



Not only with a mosaic of blossoming weed 

 does Nature deck her waste places ; lest the 

 flowers fade she 

 scatters there 

 many-hued but- 

 terflies; and by 

 these as well as 

 the blossoms she 

 tells us plainly 



that She has no Fig. 33.— The variegated fritillary 



