PAPHIA. • 



PAPHIA GLYCERimi. 1—6. 



Papilla Glj/ccrium, DoublcJuy, Clen. Diiir. Lep. pi. 50. Eilcy. Am. Ent. Feb. 1870. 



Male. Expands 1.7 incli. 



Upper side C023per red ; hind margins edged by a black border witli grey or 

 purple reflections ; on tlie arc of primaries a black band, a 2:)atcli on costa of second- 

 aries and a stripe near outer angle. Under side dead-leaf brown, with a grey 

 lustre, tinted on inner margin of primaries with reddish, and throughout densely 

 covered with dark scales ; the basal half of both wings deeji-colored, limited with- 

 out by a wavy edge ; beyond this, and reaching to the dark marginal border, a 

 broad, wavy band of j^aler color, bifurcated on costal margin ; a small cluster of 

 luteous scales in sub-costal interspace of secondaries and on middle of disk. 



Body above reddish brown, beneath color of wings ; legs buff; palpi grey 

 brown ; antennae black above, reddish below. 



Female. Expands 1.9 inch. 



Upper side pale red ; marginal border of primaries very broad, enclosing a 

 yellow-red, wavy band, imperfectly bifurcated ; on secondaries a similar band, 

 contracted at outer angle, much expanded on disk and jiartly enclosed by a 

 black stripe from outer angle ; under side vinous brown, with grey reflec- 

 tions. 



The larva when young is light bluish green thickly covered with soiled white 

 pajiilla?. Scattered among these are light orange j^apilhe of a larger size with oc- 

 casionally one of brown. These papillfe are hemisjiherical, hard, opaque and shin- 

 ing, and the larva feels rough and harsh to the touch. At each moult some of the 

 papillae disajipear, especially all the brown ones, the green shade becomes more 

 apparent and the skin softer. 



Mature larva ; length l.oo inch ; cylindrical, tajiering each way from third 

 segment ; color light bluish green ; surface rough, covered with whitish paj^illse ; 

 head sub-quadrate, bilobed, bluish green, a j^air of orange jsapillse on vertex ; neck 

 green, constricted, retracted within second segment when at rest ; sj^iracles brown- 

 ish yellow. Chrysalis at first light green, soon changing to whitish green or to 

 light cinerous brown ; the whole surface indistinctly marked with fine parallel 

 streaks of darker color ; in form short, thick, gibbous, the abdominal segments 

 contracted almost into a hemisphere. 



