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small ferruginous spots, more or less distinct. The anal palette is black, 

 and near the fringe there is a small white marginal line. 



" Larva, which feeds on Smilax, is green, with the head and feet 

 blackish. It has four rows of red spots, of which the two dorsal are 

 formed of smaller spots, and one on each side composed of spots some- 

 what larger. 



" Chrysalis grayish-brown, with the abdomen more clear and reddish." 

 Harris, who regarded this species as distinct from smilacis, thus 

 describes it under the name of auburniana, and Harris' description agrees 

 more closely with the specimens captured by us than does that of Bois- 

 duval. Harris says : " The outermost of the tails of this insect is very 

 short, and often nothing remains of it but a little tooth on the edge of the 

 wing. It varies considerably in color ; the females are generally deep 

 brown above, but sometimes the wings are rust-colored or tawny in the 

 middle, as they always are in the males ; the oval opaque spot which 

 characterizes the latter sex is ochre-yellow. Upon the under side the 

 wings in both sexes are green, the anterior pair tinged with brown from 

 the middle to the inner edge ; externally next to the fringe they are all 

 margined by a narrow wavy white line, bordered jnternally with brown ; 

 this line on the fore wings does not reach the inner margin; on the hind 

 wings it consists of six spots arranged in a zigzag manner, and the last 

 spot next to the inner margin is remote from the rest ; besides these there 

 are on the same wings three more white spots bordered with brown between 

 the zigzag band and the base ; and between the same band and the margin 

 three black spots, behind the middle one of which is a rust-red spot with 

 a black centre. The wings expand from \^h to nV inch. This pretty 

 species is found on the mouse-ear ( Gnap/ialmm plantagineum) in May, 

 and on the flowers of the spearmint in August." 



" Terias Mexicana Boisd. Boisd. Spec. Ge'n. 679. Figured on pi. 3, 

 C. fig. I, of Boisd. Spec. Ge'n. 



" Wings brilliant citron yellow ; primaries with a black border at the 

 extremity, rather wide, ending squarely at the internal angle, showing near 

 the middle a rather deep quadrangular sinus ; the outer edge slightly 

 sinuate, and whitish ; secondaries, with the middle of the exterior edge 

 prolonged to a prominent angle, in the form of a tail ; a black border of 

 moderate width, a little dentated on its internal side, not reaching the 



