154 TIIE BUTTERFLIES OF Till: 



three more at the end of the cell. The hind wings have 

 the style of the marks more like that of the males. 



On the under side the basal two-thirds of the fore 

 wings are marked like the males, but the colors are 

 black and pale blue ; the apical portion dark brown, 

 an apical whitish spot edged within with silver, a row 

 of whitish spots near the margin, another answering to 

 the inner one above, and between these several light bars 

 tinged a little with pale buff. Hind wings with the 

 basal two-thirds dark brown, the outer portion with the 

 veins brown, and the part between the veins black 

 washed with brown. The silver marking the same as 

 in the males. 



The egg is conoidal, truncated, depressed at the summit, 

 marked vertically by about eighteen prominent, slightly 

 wavy ribs, eight of which extend from, base to summit 

 and form there a serrated vein or crown, the ribs crossed 

 bv about twelve transverse striae. 



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The young larva is about .05 of an inch long, cylin- 

 drical, greenish brown, with rows of tuberculated darker 

 spots, from each of which grows a black hair; head 

 brown. 



The mature larva is velvety black, the body armed 

 with six rows of long fleshy spines which radiate from it 

 like spokes, and from each of which proceed several short 

 black bristles. The length of most of these spines is .2 

 of an inch, but the two on the top of the second segment 

 are .3 of an inch long and bend forward over the head. 

 The base of the spines is deep orange or fulvous. Be- 

 tween each pair of dorsals are two whitish dots placed 

 transversely. The head is brown in front and fulvous 

 behind. When full grown it is 2.5 inches long. 



