. How to know the butterflies; a manual of the butterflies of the eastern United States. Butterflies. 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. Cate
. How to know the butterflies; a manual of the butterflies of the eastern United States. Butterflies. 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. New York, D. Appleton
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