70 i BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 
dark brown. In thirty days they pass the fifth and last molt. 
The mature larva is 1.2 inches in length, slender, the back 
arched, the last segment ending in two long, slender, rough, 
conical tails. The whole surface is finely tuberculated, each 
tubercle giving off a fine short hair. Color of body, green, 
a darker stripe along the back, and on either side of this, 
a pale green band, on the outer edge of which is a yellowish 
green stripe. On the side below the above, is a pale green 
band, through which runs a yellow line, and there is a yellow 
stripe along the base. Head, yellowish green, and the horns 
red with a brown stripe down the front, which extends down 
the side of the face. Pupa unknown. 
The butterfly appears on the wing in Orono, about the 
middle of July. 
35. DEBIS PORTLANDIA, F. 
De'-bis Port-lan’-di-a. 
Expanse of wings, two and one-fourth inches. 
Upper side of wings, dark wood-brown, with three large 
black eye-spots on the fore wings, and five on the hind wings. 
These eye-spots have no pupils, but are surrounded by a 
yellow iris or ring. There is sometimes an intermediate 
small eye-spot on the fore wings between one and two, and 
the hind wings occasionally have a small eye-spot near the 
anal angle. 
The fore wings have a paler shade beginning on the costa 
beyond the middle and extending across the wing so as to 
include the eye-spots, and having the inner side angulated 
and curved. | 
Under side of the wings lighter than above, and with vio- 
let reflections. Two brown lines cross the wings, one before 
the middle, nearly straight, the other beyond the middle, 
sinucus. ‘The eye-spots are brighter and blacker than above, 
those on the fore wings enclosed in a pale, oblong ring; the 
first and last are usually pupilled with white, as are all the 
