Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies of the Northern United States and Canada; Being an Introduction to a Knowledge of Their Life-Histories (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... FAMILY TYPICAL BUTTERFLIES. SUM AMILY PlERIDS. TRIBE RED-HORNS OR YELLOWS. 34. Genus Callidryas. CALLIDRYAS EUBULE--THE CLOUDLESS SULPHUR. Plate XIII, Figs. 1, 2. Butterfly.--Upper surface of wings canary-yellow, the tips of the nervules, especially in the females and on the fore wings, touched with dark brown. Under surface of a similar but less pure color more or less, in the female often very much, marked by scattered flecks of ferruginous in somewhat definite transverse series; at the tip of the cell a more distinct small ferruginous spot, silver-pupilled on the hind wing. Expanse 2 -3 inches. Caterpillar.--Head pale green. Body naked but sparsely pilose, pale green with a bluish tinge, especially above, and a yellow stigmatal band; each section of the segments with a straight transverse row of small, black, distant papillae. Length If inches. Chrysalis. --Body as a whole distinctly bent in the middle; wing-cases excessively protuberant; frontal horn very long; color usually pale glaucous green with yellow stripes, but sometimes pale yellowish green or roseate, minutely dotted on back with lighter points. Length 1} inches. This is a southern butterfly, very abundant in our Southern States and extending northward into the southern portions of our district, occasionally as far north as southern New York. In the South it sometimes migrates in flocks, apparently always in a southern direction. It seems to be double-brooded, the second brood much more abundant than the first, and as the latter is the only one which has been seen in the North (in August), its occurrence in our district may be entirely due to migration, which its known habits render not improbable; in what stage it hibernates is unknown, but probably as a butterfly, or else as a cater...