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a brown discal dot, and joined at an acute angle by a patch of the 

 same hue about the middle of the submedian nervure ; two or three 

 brown lines crossing the middle of the nervules and following the 

 outline of median patch, succeeded by an irregular brownish band; 

 the marginal space brown; a small brown spot at inner angle, with 

 two or three black spots above it in sub-median sulcus, with faint 

 blackish streaks in the post-apical, subcostal and costo-inferior and 

 medio-superior interspaces. Posterior wings rose-color in the 

 middle, with a brownish patch at the tip crossed by two or three 

 short whitish lines ; ocellus black, pupil pale blue, with two short 

 whitish lines between the ocellus and the inner margin. 



Var. A male. Brownish olivaceous. Thoracic streak dark 

 brown. The median shade of the fore wings brownish olivaceous 

 with a purplish tinge, and a deep brown streak at the base of pos- 

 terior interspace ; discal spot blackish. 



■E(/(/. Spheroids much flattened above and beneath, almost like 

 narrow sections of a cylinder ; smooth, white, with an equatorial, 

 reddish brown band, having a slender, central, white line. Invest- 

 ing tunics thick and resisting. 



Toimg Larva, on first emerging from the Q^g is green, without 

 granulations, and oblique, lateral stripes ; a long reddish caudal 

 horn ; without thoracic subdorsal lines. 



Mature Larva. I regret I have no description of the mature 

 larva. The following is that of Harris : Apple green, with two 

 short, pale lines before, seven oblique, yellowish white lines on 

 each side and a bluish caudal horn. According to Abbot & Smith's 

 figure, the head is green with a crimson line on each side ; the body 

 yellowish green, lateral oauds and caudal horn yellow, vrith a sub- 

 dorsal and do'^ le slign^+al row of crimson spots. 



Pupation. Tue larva eiuers the ground to transform ; the pupa 

 is chestnut-bi'own, smooth, with a short, obtuse, terminal spine. 



Food-plants. The leaves of the apple tree and those of the Eosa 

 Carolina. 



Pennsylvania ; Massachusetts ; Georgia. 



Clemens. 



§§ Costa of i'^perior wings rounded and entire from the base to 

 the tip, lohich is rounded. 



j" Fore ivings dadlculated on hind margin, with that oppo- 

 site disco-central nearly obsolete. 

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