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than in others of the tribe. Feeds on Dalechampia. Chrysalis : 

 Relatively stout, with rather rapidly tapering abdomen and frontal 

 horns almost half as long as the body. (a/x<pL, ^Aw/jo's, encompassed 

 with green, i. e. a spring butterfly.) 



Amphichlora fornax Hiibn. (Ageronia f. Hiibn.) Butter- 

 fly: Upper surface of wings marbled in the most intricate fashion 

 with black, white, brown, and cerulean blue, the black and brown 

 appearing to form the ground color, the white occurring almost 

 entirely on the fore wings and there forming a loose broad band 

 of large spots running from beyond the middle of the costal border 

 to the lower outer angle, the blue appearing as lunulate, subcon- 

 tinuous transverse markings, and next the margin, especially on 

 the hind wings, as the outer ring of large ocelli having usually a 

 white or blue pupil ; a sinuous black bar crosses the middle of the 

 cell of the fore wings having a red spot in its lower half. Under 

 surface of fore wings as far as middle of cell impure white, beyond 

 black heavily spotted with pure white, the larger spots comprised 

 in three transverse parallel bands, in each of which, especially the 

 middle one, the spots are subequal, but the shorter outer baud Jias 

 one longitudinal bar greatly larger than the others in its series; 

 the cellular bar is repeated; hind wings uniform dark brownish 

 yellow, with a marginal series of black-capped white spots, the 

 outer half or more of the upper three interspaces filled with elon- 

 gate black and white ocellate spots, and the following three with a 

 very small black-capped or encircled white spot near centre of its 

 outer half. Expanse 75 mm. Egg: Short barrel-shaped with 

 about 10 uniform vertical ribs, in part blended above, laid in 

 columns of 5-10 in number. Caterpillar at birth : Not distinct- 

 ively described; covers itself with pellets of its excrement. Mature 

 Caterpillar : Dorsal spines of hind end and subdorsal thoracic 

 spines with numerous small equal spinelets, giving them the appear- 

 ance of cylindrical brushes; subdorsal and suprastigmatal yellow 

 stripes, the former edged inferiorly with black, the latter sending 

 oblique shoots downward and backward toward the stigmata; be- 

 neath red. Feeds in Brazil on Dalechampia triphylla, ficifolia, 

 and stipulacea. Chrysalis : Either green or blackish brown, with 

 a broad unequal whitish dorsal stripe, and an infrastigmatal white 

 band, which continues forward along the edge of the wing-cases 

 and unites with its opposite behind the frontal tubercles, involving 

 also most of the ventral portion of the abdomen. — S. W. Texas; 

 purely accidental 



