EASTERN UNITED STATE*. 395 



prominent, shining black head, and a creamy-white body, 



with a yellowish tino-e posteriorly. 



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The second segment is half circled 



with a black line. 



The larvae station themselves on 



. P. Zabulon, larva (natural 



the inside ot the leaves, near the size ). 



joints, and, by drawing portions of 

 the leaves together with silk, form a rude case, in which 

 they secrete themselves. 



Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Valley. 



136. PAMPHILA SASSACUS, Harr. 



Expanse of wings from 1.2 to 1.4 inches. 



Male. Upper surface dull dark yellow, the outer 

 border of fuscous or dark grayish brown, not quite one- 

 third the length of the wing, crenate within, the base 

 dusky. On the fore wings is a black, oblique stigma, or 

 sex-mark, below the cell, with a little ftisnm.s below it, 

 and at its end a fuscous patch, which is separated from the 

 border by a few fulvous spots in a broken line ; veins 

 fuscous. The yellow of the hind wings is surrounded 

 bv a fuscous border. 



V 



Under side brownish fulvous, the posterior half of 

 fore wings fuscous ; the five subterminal spots of the 

 upper surface repeated, a spot at the end of the cell, a 

 large triangular patch, with dentate outline, all yellowish 

 white. The hind wings have a subterminal band of 

 six whitish spots across the anterior two thirds of the 

 wing, and a spot at the end of the cell. One specimen 

 having a slight greenish-yellow wash to the under surface 

 has these spots indistinct. 



Female. This differs from the male in having the 

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