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Smyrna karwI xskii Htibn. Butterfly : Upper surface of fore 

 wings dark brownish tawny at base, black at apex, the colors sepa- 

 rated by a straight oblique pale yellow stripe, broad above, tapering 

 below, its inner limit just bordering the cell; three large roundish 

 white spots in a similarly oblique row just before the apex; hind 

 wings dark brownish tawny, margined broadly above, narrowly be- 

 low, with black. Under surface of fore wings brown at base, followed 

 by a transverse broad oblique slightly arcuate pale yellow band, 

 beyond black, separated from the mottled apex by the repetition 

 of the spots of upper surface; hind wings light gray brown, the basal 

 half or more crowded with concentric, more or less oval but irregu- 

 lar rings of blackish brown, centring, where most regular, in the 

 costo-subcostal and medio-submedian interspaces, the whole out- 

 wardly limited by an exceedingly irregular indented line, having its 

 farthest extension in the costo-subcostal interspace and on the sub- 

 median nervure; outer portion clouded with dark brown in inverted 

 lunules, centrally marked with two large and two slightly smaller 

 and brighter slightly ovate multicolored ocelli. Expanse 90 mm. 

 Earhj stages : Unknown. — Texas, New Mexico; accidental. 



Tribe COEINI. 



Butterfly : Very heavy bodied and large, with very short abdo- 

 men. Antennae naked throughout, stout but long, the club not 

 much enlarged, subcylindrical, elongate, gradually incrassate, both 

 club and stalk delicately bicarinate on the inner lower surface. 

 Palpi very compact but not slender, rapidly tapering and pointed, 

 appressed, the last joint short and rapidly tapering. Wings large 

 and broad, the apex of the fore wings broadly produced, the hind 

 wings with the outer margin rounded subtruncate with or without 

 tails; cell of both wings open or closed; penultimate superior sub- 

 costal nervule of fore wings hugging the main stem for half its 

 length and then suddenly divergent. Last tarsal joint with two 

 rows of spines beneath. Egg and Caterpillar at birth : Unknown. 

 Mature Caterpillar : Head with a pair of short prickly coronal 

 horns. Body armed with ranged thorns having a preapical whorl of 

 spinules ; besides the dorsal series there is but a single row on either 

 side above the spiracles, so that the sides of the body are widely 

 exposed. Feeds on Urticaceoe. Chrysalis : Rather elongate, 

 compressed, with a dorsal keel and a series of stiff dorsal thorns, 

 preapicall} T whorled with spinules, on the principal abdominal seg- 



