106 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S 



THECI.A BETULyE, BROWN HAIR-STREAK. 

 Jjewm,i>l. 42. Donooan, v. 7» P- 250. Duncati, pi. 2T,fig. 1, 2. 



liiMcrJly. Wings dark brown, with a white fringe. The 

 primary with a large kidney-shaped orange transverse spot 

 nearer to the tip than the base ; underneath, all the wings 

 are orange tawny, witli the posterior margin bright orange. 

 The primary have in the middle a linear transverse spot 

 edged with white, and a pyramidate internally abbreviated, 

 orange band darker at the tip, edged especially posteriorly 

 with white. The secondary are tailed, with a rather pyra- 

 midate indented, orange band, edged with white, and angle 

 spotted with black. In the male, the discoidal spot of the 

 primary wings is more obscure and smaller. 



t'uterpiUur. Green, with yellow dorsal and lateral stripes, 

 and with oblique yellowish streaks on the sides. 



Chrysalis. Brown, with faint paler streaks. 



THECLA PRUNI, BLACK HAIR-STREAK. 



Lmuii pi. 44,/. 1,2. Donovan v. 13, p. 437. Duncan pi. 28, Jig. \. 



BuUerJIy. Wings dark brown, and without spots. Under- 

 neath, they are of a lighter brown or drab colour. Primary 

 with a posterior white, rather undulated transverse streak. 

 Secondary, tailed with a similar but zigzag streak, and a 

 deep orange-coloured undulated marginal band, externally 

 spotted and internally edged with black ; the small tails of 

 the wings are brown with black tips, antenna; annulated 

 with black and white, orange at the tip. 



Caterpillar. Plump, blackish green, with whitish lateral 

 lines, dorsally toothed. 



Chrysalis. Dusky brown, white head. 



