58 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



AFTER FOURTH AND LAST MOULT, IN SUMMER.— Length 

 .80 to .85 inch.; when mature, .90 to .95 inch. CyUndrical ; color dark 

 brown, dotted with yellow, and striped with yellow and black, the yellow 

 always dull ; armed with 7 rows of spines, i dorsal, and 3 on either side, 

 besides smaller spines, arranged as after ist moult; the spines stout, 

 tapering, dark brown, in part white-tipped, those of ist and 3rd lateral rows 

 more or less orange tinted at base ; each spine beset with many stout, 

 straight, black bristles ; next below ist laterals a blackish stripe, edged on 

 the dorsal side by yellow : in line with the lower laterals a yellow ridge ; 

 head cordate, either black or bronze ; on each vertex a transverse white 

 band ; in front a cordate yellow spot, and on each side a sickle-shaped 

 yellow stripe. Duration 4 to 6 days. 



CHRYSALIS. — Length .50 inch.; cylindrical, thickest at 9th and loth 

 segments ; head case narrow, excavated at tlie sides, nearly square at 

 top ; the mesonotum moderately prominent, compressed at summit, and 

 followed by a slight depression ; the anterior edges of the last four seg- 

 ments of the abdomen prominent, especially of the foremost, which is 

 developed into a ridge ; on the abdomen several rows of fine tubercles ; 

 the color varies, being light cinereous, covered with fine abbreviated 

 streaks ; or it may be cinereous on dorsum, the rest yellow brown ; or a 

 dull white mottled dorsally with brown ; or wholly dark brown finely 

 mottled with gray. Duration from 6 to 13 days, unless retarded by cold. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HESPERIAN FROM 



TEXAS. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 



Pamphila Meskei. 



Female — Expands 1.4 inch. 



Upper side blackish-brown ; primaries have the costal margin to cell 

 and nearly to apex densely covered with fulvous ; the basal area and the 

 inner margin sprinkled with fulvous scales ; and the cell wholly deep 

 fulvous except towards the outer end, where through the middle runs an 

 oar-shaped blackish stripe ; midway between cell and apex an elongated 

 yellow-white spot, cut into three by the sub-costal nervules, the one of 

 these spots iiearest costa nearly lost in the fulvous ground ; across the 

 disk an oblique band of yellow-white spots, the upper one small and in 



