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Hunter's Butterfly

Pyrameis huntera

Plate I — Hunter's Butterfly is Fig. 2
Plate I — Hunter's Butterfly is Fig. 2
Plate XXXIII — Hunter's Butterfly is Fig. 6
Plate XXXIII — Hunter's Butterfly is Fig. 6

Butterfly.-Marked much like the following species, but easily distinguished at a glance by the two large eye-like spots on the under side of the hind wings. Expanse, 2.00 inches.

Early Stages.--These have been frequently described, and are in part well depicted in Plates II and IV. The food-plants are cudweed (Gnaphalium) and Antennaria.

Hunter's Butterfly ranges from Nova Scotia to Mexico and Central America east of the Sierras.