ANTHOCARIS J^ H. 



ANTHOCARIS AUSONIDES, 5-8. 

 Antkocaris Ausonides (Au-son'-ides), Boisdiival, Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, 1852. Lep. de la Cal., 1869, 



Male. — Expands 1.5 to 1.9 inch. 



Upi^er side white, sometime.s pure, but most often yellow-tinted, much sprinkled 

 with black scales at bases of wings ; primaries have the apex gray or black, in- 

 closing a white patch on costal margin, and white marginal rays in the discoidal 

 and vipper median interspaces ; these rays sometimes expanding into oval or 

 rounded spots, just within the margin, in which case, including the costal patch, 

 there are three or four spots crossing the apex ; costal edge slightly specked 

 with black ; a black spot on arc, reniform or lunate, or sometimes a sinuous 

 bar, usually reaching the sub-costal nervure. 



Secondaries have a mottled appearance owing to their transparency ; fringe 

 of primaries alternately black and white, of secondaries white, black at tips of 

 nervules. 



Under side of primaries as above, except that the dark apex is wanting, or is 

 represented only by small clusters of dull green scales, which are suffused with 

 yellow, as is also all that portion which is dark on upper side, the white patch 

 usually retaining its color ; a white line on the arc within the discal spot. 



Secondaries mottled with dull green disposed in three ragged, transverse bands, 

 and a demi-band on the inner side between the marginal and central ; the mar- 

 ginal band deeply scolloped ; all these usually suffused with yellow, and diversi- 

 fied with points and patches where the absence of the green scales discloses the 

 white ground ; the nervui'es of the disk yellow. Body above gray-black, be- 

 neath yellow- white ; legs same ; palpi white with many gray hairs; antennae and 

 club gray specked with black above, ochraceous beneath. 



Female. — Same size, and closely resembles the male ; frequently secondaries 

 on upper side are suffused with a buff or ochraceous tint. 



Mature Larva. — Length 1 inch. Cylindrical, slender ; head small, round, 

 green specked with black ; body entirely covered with black granules, from each 

 of which springs a short hair ; marked longitudinally by three lead-colored stripes, 

 one dorsal, two lateral, the intervening spaces being yellow ; the lateral stripes 

 edged below with white that shades into yellow; legs black, pro-legs greenish- 

 yellow. 



