BOISDUVAL’S BUTTERFLY. 
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Htpparchia Alope, Fab. Alope Butterfly. (Fig. 127.) 
Dark brown ; fore wings with a broad ochre-yellow band 
beyond the middle, enclosing two round black spots, with a 
sky-blue centre ; hind wings notched behind, with from one 
to three eye-like spots of a black color, with a blue centre 
on the upper side, and 
four or five of the same 
kind, but of unequal 
size, beneath ; the under 
side of the wings is pale 
brown, with numerous 
dark brown streaks. The 
eye-spots on the hind 
winojs are sometimes 
wantino; in the males. 
Expands from 2 to 2| inches. In the Southern States 
individuals are found measurino; three inches. 
The Alope butterfly is found from the first of July to the 
middle of September in open woods and in orchards. The 
caterpillar is pale green with dark green stripes ; the head is 
round, and the tail ends in a short fork. The chrysalis is 
elongated, roundish at the sides, with the head notched. 
Hipparchia Boisduvallii. Boisduval’s Butterfly. (Fig. 128.) 
Pale yellowish-brown ; the fore wings upon both sides 
have four eye-like, blackish 
. Fig. 128. 
spots, with a white centre, 
and the hind wings have 
six, the external spot re¬ 
mote from the others, and 
the two next to the hind 
angle very small and close 
together. In some indi- 
viduals the white centre is 
wanting in some of the eye-spots on the upper side of the 
wings. 
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