188 Tn E BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



ferruginous spots, the lower enclosing a blue or green 

 point. The outer margin of both wings, below these, is 

 bordered by a series of confluent blue-black sometimes 

 olive-green spots following the outline of the wing. 

 Within these is another series of rounded spots of the 

 same color. On the disk of hind wings is a white G 

 varying in form. 



The mature larva is one inch and a quarter long ; head 

 black, furnished with two branching horns and a few 

 scattered white hairs. Upper side of joints 2 to 6 brick- 

 red striped transversely with blue, yellow, and black, a 

 few white hairs on joint 2. There are four branching 

 yellow spines, with black tips, on joints 3 and 4, and six 

 on joints 5 and 6. Joints 7 to 12 are white, with a 

 faintly-marked black stripe along the back, each joint 

 with three transverse yellow bands and two oblique black 

 spots. These joints have each seven spines, all white ex- 

 cept the one next the lowest, which is brown. Last two 

 joints black, with seven and four spines respectively. Sides 

 red, with two black bands, the lowest spotted with blue. 

 The chrysalis (Fig. 52) is grayish brown. Head 

 with two biforked horns, the outer point very short; 

 thorax with an elevated keel-like ridge on top, 

 with a small tubercle on each side. At the 

 base, below this, there is a larger tubercle, and 

 behind it another keel-like protuberance, hol- 

 lowed on top ; there are six raised silver orna- 

 ments on the dorsal surface, the first resembling; 



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in shape a capital G ; the second is an oblong 

 G. Faunus, gpof^ and the third is a sharply-pointed tuber- 



cle. The abdominal segments are furnished 

 with eight rows of tubercles ; on each side are five 



