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There are three broods of the larvae in a season, eacli 

 moulting only three times in coming to maturity. 

 West Virginia to Gulf of Mexico, Southern Illinois. 



84. NEOXYMPHA AREOLATUS, Sm. Abb. 



Expanse of wings from 1.3 to 1.5 inches. 



Upper surface wood-brown, somewhat grayish, the 

 border-lines faint, and without eye-spots. 



Under side scarcely paler than above, but sprinkled 

 with buff scales. Fore wings with three small dark 

 brown spots narrowly circled with yellow and containing 

 a few silvery scales. Hind wings with five various- 

 shaped elongate spots, the long diameter with the length 

 of the wing, each with bluish metallic scales, sometimes 

 in a bunch, sometimes a buff centre with metallic points 

 around it ; each spot circled with buff. There is a 

 common, dull, dark yellow line a little in front of the 

 middle of the wings, another just touches the end of the 

 cell, and a third is submarginal, the last two nearly meet- 

 ing at their ends on each wing, forming a broad band 

 without change of ground color, in which the ocelli are 

 placed ; the margin of the wing of the same color. On 

 the fore wings these lines are not so distinct as on the 

 hind wings. 



The eggs are nearly globular, smooth, but under a 

 high magnifying power are seen to be thickly covered 

 with shallow depressions. Color pale green. 



The young larva, which hatches in six days, is cylindri- 

 cal, the last joint bluntly forked. Color delicate green. 

 Over the body are many white hairs, and among these 

 are black clubbed hairs in longitudinal roAvs. Head 



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about twice as wide as any joint, a little depressed at the 



