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dorsum a white spot ; under side dark or blackish-brown ; on this side 

 segments 5 and 6 are crossed by a belt of minute blue-black tubercles 

 with fine hairs, and a few like these are seen on 1 1 and 12 ; feet and pro- 

 legs black ; head smaller than 2, sub-cordate, flattened frontally, the ver- 

 tices rounded ; surface lustrous, brown-black, behind the vertices orange- 

 red, with a patch of this color on middle of front, and another along the 

 ocelli ; somewhat pilose. 



CHRYSALIS — Length .8 inch ; cylindrical, thickest in middle \ the 

 head case truncated, rounded transversely, and also at either side, where 

 the eye-cases are quite prominent ; mesonotum elevated, sub-conic, fol- 

 lowed by a rounded excavation ; the wing cases flaring at base, com- 

 pressed in middle, and round rather abruptly to the abdomen ; upon the 

 abdomen four rows of conical tubercles, corresponding to the dorsal and 

 upper lateral spines of the larva, and the two dorsal extend to upper side 

 of mesonotum ; color pearl-white, iridescent, marked with dark brown 

 patches and points ; the wing cases are often nearly covered with brown, 

 on which the neuration is indicated by orange lines ; but there is much 

 variation, the brown area on the wings often being limited to a few stripes 

 along the nervures ; the antennas cases annulated orange and brown, and 

 edged by brown ; the eyes marked by a brown lunation containing an 

 orange line ; at the top of head case a circlet of brown points about a 

 central one of same color ; other small patches and points about the head 

 and at base of mesonotum ; on the abdomen brown points in pairs 

 between the tubercles parallel to the long axis of the body ; the tubercles 

 gold, burnished, either with or without brown lunations at base. Duration 

 of this stage in summer 7 days. 



Eggs laid 14th July, 1880, hatched 19th; the 1st moult was passed 

 21st; 2nd moult 24th; 3rd moult 26th; 4th moult 28th; in chrysalis 

 2nd Aug.; imago out 9th Aug. From laying of egg to imago 26 days. 



Claudia is found throughout the Southern and Western States ; is 

 occasional in New York, and even in New England. It inhabits tropical 

 America and some of the West India Islands, and also parts of South 

 America. The larva? feed on any species of Passiflora ; also on Viola 

 and Sedum, and probably other plants. In 187 1 I received from Mr. T. 

 L. Mead, then in Colorado, a plant of Sedum by mail, about 10 days on 

 the road. On opening the ' package I found a caterpillar of Claudia, 

 which had hatched on the road and had passed its second moult. I kept 

 it for some days and it fed altogether on the flowers of the Sedum. Here 



