THE CAXADIAX ENTOMOLOGIST. 



tation of it. WTien its wings are expanded this insect will measure about 

 four inches across. The ground color of its wings is a pale lemon 

 yellow, which is banded and bordered with black ; on the fore wings are 

 four black bars, the inner one extending entirely across the wing, the 

 outer ones shortening more and more as they approach the apex. The 

 front margin is edged with black, and the outer margin has a wide border 

 of the same in which is set a row of eight or nine pale yellow spots, the 

 lower ones less distinct. 



The hind wings are crossed by a streak of black which is almost a 

 continuation of the inner band on the fore wings ; there is a short black 

 streak a little beyond at the end of the discal cell, and a wide black 

 border widening as it approaches the inner angle of the wing. Enclosed 

 within this border and towards its outer edge are six lunular spots, the 

 upper and lower ones reddish, the others yellow ; above and about these 

 spots and especially towards the inner angle of the wing, the black 

 bordering is thickly powdered with blue scales. The outer margin of the 

 hind wings is scalloped and partly edged with yellow ; the inner margin 

 is bordered with dusky for about two-thirds of its length, followed by a 

 small yellow patch, which in turn is succeeded by a larger black spot 

 centered with a crescent of blue atoms and bounded below by an irregular- 

 reddish spot margined within with yellow. The hind wings terminate in 

 two long black tails, edged on the inside with yellow. The body is black 

 above, margined with pale yellowish ; below yellowish streaked with 

 black. • 



The under surface of the wings somewhat resembles the upper, but is- 

 paler. 



This species passes the winter in the chrysalis state, and appears first 

 on the wing from the middle to the latter end of May, but becomes much 

 more plentiful during July. Whether these July insects are a second 

 brood, or whether the bulk of the chrysalids which have wintered do not 

 mature until about this time we are unable to determine ; individuals 

 which we have wintered over have escaped from chrysalis as late as the 

 3rd of June. 



The eggs of turmis are deposited singly on the leaves of the different 

 plants or trees on which the larva feeds. They are between one-twentieth 

 and one-twenty-fifth of an inch in diameter, sub-globular, flattened at the 

 place of attachment ; colour dark green, surface smooth, without 

 reticulations, but showing a few small irregularly distributed spots under 



