82 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 
segment, narrow in front and broad behind. The summit of 
the back is flattened and a little concave and covered by a 
broad band which is cut by a paler line. The rest of the 
elevated ridges are yellowish green making two sub-dorsal 
macular bands. The sides are sloping, nearly flat, reddish 
brown, with an indistinct green line. The second segment 
is 2 broad, elevated rolled collar in which the head is con- 
cealed. The basal ridge is green and the head yellowish 
green. One day later the length is .4 of an inch, the color 
changed to port-wine red, the sub-dorsal area remains 
yellowish green but with a tint of red on the posterior part 
of each segment. The sides are the same color as before, 
and there is a pale red line along the basal ridge. Body 
covered with short brown hairs. ‘ 
Two days later the length is .56 of an inch, when they stop 
feeding and in eight days from the third and last molt they 
pupate. — 
The pupa is .3 of an inch long, black or blackish brown 
with obscure red bands, there being on either side a narrow, 
black stripe in the middle of the abdomen. The winter is 
passed in this stage. 
44, 'THECLA NIPHON, Hueb. 
Thec’-la ni’-phon. 
Expanse of wings, one inch and one fifth. 
Upper side of the wings, dark brown with a rusty space on 
each in the females. The notches on the hind wings are 
white, and the teeth are blackish. Under side of the wings, 
light brown. Two black streaks cross the cell of the fore 
wing, one at the end and the other near the middle. A wavy 
black line, edged on the outer side with white, starts from the 
outer third of the costa, and extends two-thirds the way 
across the wing; and between this and the outer border, 
there is a row of more or less wedge-shaped, black spots. 
The hind wings have two tortuous black lines crossing them, 
one near the base with the inner edge white, the other a little 
