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The Olive Hair-Streak (Mitoura damon Mi-tou'ra da'mon)
Mitoura damon (Mi-tou'ra da'mon) PLATE XXXIV, FIG. 7, 8, 9 The upper surface of the wings is dark brown, with the disk more or less deeply suffused with brassy yellow in the male or tawny in the female; the tails of the hind wings black tipped with white. The lower surface is deep green, with the portion of the fore wings covered by the hind pair pale slate brown; the fore wings are traversed by a nearly straight submarginal white stripe bordered interiorly with brown; there is a similar but tortuous stripe on the outer half of the hind wings; near the base of the hind wings there are two white spots bordered without with brown, and near the outer margin of these wings there is a series of black spots, margined without and more or less covered with white. Expanse of wings one inch.
CATERPILLAR.-Slug-shaped; a little more than half an inch long; its body is dark green, and along the sides are two stripes made up of more or less oblique white dashes. Food-plants. Red cedar and smilax.
The olive hair-streak has wings which are rich brown-black above. The under sides of the hind wings are bright olive green, and the front edges of the front wings are the same color, which shades off gradually into tan at the middle of the wing. The white streak across the lower side of the wing is thick and very striking, and it is bordered with rust red inside. The tail on the hind wings is just a little slender spike. This Thecla belongs to the South, where it flits about the tops of the forests of red cedar. The caterpillar is a robust-looking little fellow, but it is so exactly cedar-leaf color that it is well protected, though it feeds on the very tips of the twigs. The caterpillar of this species also feed upon smilax, and in some of the books this species is called Thecla smilacis. It winters as a chrysalis.
The butterfly's assumption grown, In chrysoprase apartments hung, This afternoon put on.