HOW TO KNOW THE BUTTERFLIES 



little object, brown and ashen with golden 

 spots. 



There are two broods ; both butterflies and 

 chrysalids hibernate, but the wintering butter- 

 flies remain long in their winter quarters, being 

 seldom seen before the second week in May. 

 This butterfly occurs over nearly the whole of 

 the European and North American continents. 



The Painted Beauty 

 Vanessa huntera (Va-nes'sa hun'te-ra) 



Plate XXVI, Fig. 3, 4 



The wings above are very dark brownish black, with large 

 irregular spots of golden orange. In the apical portion of 

 the fore wings there are several white spots. The lower sur- 

 face of the wings is represented on the Plate. A characteris- 

 tic feature is the presence of two submarginal eyelike spots 

 on the hind wing. Expanse of wings two inches to two 

 and one-half inches. 



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

 color of the body velvety black with narrow cross lines of 

 yellow ; and there is a silvery white spot on each side of each 

 of the posterior segments, making a row of white spots on each 

 side of the rear two-thirds of the caterpillar. The head has 

 no spines, but the body has rows of bristly spines. 



Food-plants. — Everlasting (Graphalium), and allied plants. 



This butterfly may be seen along roadsides 

 from May until November, from morning until 



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