BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. A7 
black hairs arising from black papille. A broad black band 
along the base, usually of a dull green color, with a yellow 
stripe in the line of the lower lateral spines, and a broken 
yellow line running with the spiracles; in some cases, this 
band is ochre yellow or reddish yellow. *The back and sides 
are much dotted with white. The body is furnished with 
seven rows of long, tapering, black spines armed with short 
black hairs, one along the middle of the back, and three on 
each side, each arising from shining, black tubercles, except 
those of the lowest row, which has greenish or yellow tuber- 
cles. The pupa is .6 of an inch long, similar in shape, to 
M. phaeton, variously colored from greenish yellow to gray- 
ish brown. Abdomen armed with five rows of conical tubercles. 
This butterfly is on the wing at Orono, about the middle of 
June. 
19. PHycropEs THAROS, Drury. 
Phy-ci-o'-des_ tha’-ros 
Expanse of wings, one inch and a half to one and seven- 
elghths. 
Upper side of the wings, reddish fulvous, banded and re- 
ticulated with black. Borders of the wings black. Three 
or four spots of the ground color on the cell of the fore wing, 
with as many more beyond it. A sinuous band across the 
wing beyond the cell, followed by a series of spots, the lower 
one of which has a black center, and a lunule beyond this near 
the middle of the wing, all reddish fulvous. These run into 
each other more or less in the males. 
Hind wings, with a pale, crenate line in the black border, 
sometimes searcely perceptible, within which is a row of 
seven fulvous spots with black centers, the upper ones nearly 
or quite lost on the black ground. The basal part of the 
wing is marked by irregular, curved, black lines. Under 
side of fore wings, fulvous, pale yellow or buff along the 
costa and outer margin, with a brownish spot near the middle 
