EASTERN UNITED STATES. J49 



Under side of hind, wings and apical portion of fore 

 wings yellowish brown streaked a little with yellow, the 

 rest of fore wings fulvous. There are twenty-three or 

 twenty-four silver spots edged with black on each of the 

 hind wings, and about ten on the apex and outer margin 

 of the fore wings ; those on the hind wings and apex 

 of fore wings mostly large. 



The eggs are conoidal, truncated, the top a little arched ; 

 the sides more or less convex, marked bv fourteen ribs 



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from base to top, and crossed by eleven tiers of strise; 

 the spaces between the ribs are quadrangular, the spaces 

 at the summit hexagonal. 



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The young larva is cylindrical, thickest at joint 4, 

 tapering slightly to the anal extremity. Color brownish 

 orange, glossy; on cadi side of the dorsal line, on each 

 joint after the second, is a row of conical, pale black 

 tubercles, and two similar rows on each side forming; 



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transverse rows of six tubercles, from the top of each of 

 which springs a short black hair. On joint 2 is a black 

 dorsal collar with fine tubercles. Head brown. 



After the first moult the color is about the same, but 

 after moulting again it is more of a dark or red brown, 

 with a-subdorsal greenish-brown band, and head black'. 

 After the third moult the color changes to dark glossy 

 orange, with the dorsal stripe olive-brown and a sub- 

 dorsal of the same, and the lower part of the body olive- 

 brown. 



The mature larva is 1.5 inches long, of a red-orange 

 color, with a broad dorsal line of greenish black, and a 

 broad slate-black band outside this reaching to the first 



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lateral, except a narrow stripe of the ground color. Base 

 slate-black, orange through the region of the spiracles. 



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