Identifier: lepidopterarhopa00stre (find matches)
Title: Lepidoptera, rhopaloceres and heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Strecker, Herman, 1836-1901
Subjects: Lepidoptera
Publisher: Reading, Pa., Owen's steam book and job printing office
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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never yet captured or even seen a male Pochahontas, nor have I ever seen Pochaliontasunless Hobomok was also in the .same vicinity. A number of naturalists and collectors assureme of the same facts. Even a casual examination of the under surface will show that themarkings in Hobomok and Pochahontas are the same in delineation, though not in color. VANESSA LINTNERII, Fitch. 1 have of this variety of V. Antiopa, lour examples,two of which were taken in the sexual act. EUCH/ETES EGLE. If the white EuehaHes Egle is an Albina var. of (he slate coloredone, why is it that where the white one is abundant, tlie grey one docs not occur? On the lineof the East Pennsylvania Railroad, near Reading, Pa., the white one can be taken by hun-dreds, but I have never met with a grey one in tliis county, (Berks), while Mr. Edw. Graef,of Brooklyn, N. Y., a most careful collector, says that he has taken the grey one in somelocalities in large numbers, but has never seen a white one in the .same places. ^7 -
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Hermnn Strecier Del I ■ IP/PILIO INDRArT.SP.ANTICOSTIEMSIS Q.3 P.PILUMNUS <? 4PIERlSMENAPiA^. PAPILIO INDRA. Rkakirt. PROC. EXT. SOC. PHIL, VI. p. 123, 180G. Male. Expands 3 inches. Antenna?, head and tliorax black, two small yellow spo(.s behind the eyes, sides of collarand patagiie dull yellow; abdomen black with a yellow dash on each side of the anal segment. Ui^per surface black, ))rimaries with a sub-marginal row of eight pale yellow lunate spots■which become gradually smaller as they approach the posterior angle; also a band of ninelarger spots of same color, extending from costa to inner margin, the second one having a blackmark on the inner end ; disco-cellular nervules defined by a yellow line. Secondaries have the yellow band of the primaries continued ; this band is divided by theblack veins into seven parts, the three nearest to the costal and the two nearest to inner marginare of parallelogram form, and pretty much of one size; the two remaining parts, laying be-tw

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