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bearing tubercles i; slightly elevated red dorsal areas on joints 6 to 9 

 and on li>, the latter the most prominent; dorsal and subdorsal black 

 lines, broken into spots and angles, shaded across with blackish on 

 joints 9-10; entirely confused on joints 11 to 13 and filled in nearly to 

 a broad band on joints 2 to 4; two lateral black lines, more nearly 

 continuous, especially centrally; a broad stigmatal band composed of 

 three confused lines; bases of all the feet broadly vinous red; feet and 

 shields blackish. Tubercles black, prominent, tubercles i on joints 5 

 to 12 elongated into short cones; setae distinct, single, pale; tubercle 

 iv below and behind the spiracle, close to it. 



This larva resembles the North American Schizum con- 

 cinna Smith and Abbot, but is less specialized. There is a 

 hint of the usual Schizura white V-mark in the dark shade 

 on joint 10. The white head is peculiar. 



NOTES ON APANTESIS FIGURATA DRURY. 



BY S. D. NIXON, ML Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. 

 In April, 1911, I was out hunting larvae of Apantesis anna 

 and among the lot that I found I noticed several of the larvae 

 that were a little smaller than the anna and different. One 

 kind of them was black with a stripe the length of the back; 

 so I kept this kind by itself. When the larvae pupated the 

 pupa was much smaller than the anna, reddish in color, 

 frosted the same as anna. In eighteen days one of them came 

 out exceha female, with the upper wing marked with two 

 cross lines converging below and a complete W-mark; the 

 other one came out excelsa male, the upper wing marked same 

 as female. The lower wing is marked a little different from 

 the type figurata. It has a dot in the red, also a black dash. 

 The third one, all that I had at that time, came out male 

 figurata, with the lower wing black and yellow. I am going 

 to name this form Apantesis fignratavax. preciosa Nixon. In 

 a few days I found some more larvae of figurata and they 

 pupated and came out as follows: first was male and fe- 

 male typical fignrata; next female type, and the last two 

 came out male and female var. c \ceka, only the markings on 

 the upper wing were marked with two parallel bars, the outer 

 one irregular and no W-mark, same as figurata. The first 

 pair of excelsa had the red dot in the lower wing in a large 

 irregular square, while in the other female excelsa the mark 

 was small, rounded. The larva is about one and one half 

 inches long, varying in color from coal black to rusty brown. 

 It feeds on any plant in the locality where it is to be found, 

 generally on hillsides where there is plenty of undergrowth. 

 Some larvae have a lemon stripe on the back. 



