LIMENITIS II. 



red-buff, 2 specked dorsally with black ; the patch red-buff ; so also the basal 

 ridge; the seginents fioni 4 to 11, except 8 and 9, much covered with round, 

 glassy, bead-like processes, deep red in color ; these are arranged just as in Arthe- 

 viis; the appendages of 3 are now very long, measuring from .11 to .16 inch, 

 slender, tapering to the end, bent forward at al)out four fifths the distance from 

 base to top ; color black ; beset from base up with separated sharp spurs, large 

 and small, black, with tawny tips; head as before; color red, across the lower 

 front black-red. (Fig. e, nat. size, e^ niag.) 



At one day from third moult : length .45 inch ; the beads now between red and 

 blue ; the patch 3'ellow-buff, the basal stripe still more yellow. 



At two days from the moult : length .55 inch ; the beads now deep blue, the 

 body lighter colored, but still red. Finally, as the fourth moult approaches, the 

 dark portions change to olive-green. Duration of this stage 4 to 5 days. 



After fourth moult : length six hours after the moult .7 inch ; segments 2, 3, 

 4, clear red-buff, very little specked with black at the junctions; 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 

 13, red-fenuginous, with little or no black; the patch on 9, and partly covering 

 8 and 10, on dorsum, red-buff", but a shade lighter than the anterior segments; 

 the basal ridge still lighter ; the appendages on 3 vary from .2 to .3 inch in 

 length, slender and tapering as before, also bent as before, and from base beset 

 with irregular and separated sharp spurs, the tips of which are tawny, but all else, 

 as well as the stems, shining black ; between these appendages are two fine 

 crested tubercles, color of the ground ; on 4 are two large crested tubercles at 

 the ends of the ridge, and two small ones between them ; there are also deep 

 red, glassy beads on the ridges, as described at last previous stage ; 5 has two 

 small tubercles and three rows of beads; 6 has an elevated ridge, with a mamil- 

 loid process at each end, the top bearing a cluster of little fleshy grains (Fig. h), 

 Avith no supporting tubercle ; the succeeding segments have but two dorsal 

 crested tubercles each, and to 11 they are small, those on tlie patch concolored 

 with it; 7 is beaded like 5, and 11 and 12 are thickly beaded; 12 has taper- 

 ing processes, with crests of grains (Fig. i); 13 has two prominent pairs, one 

 quite at the extremity, turned back, the others springing from bases of the first, 

 at right angles to the dorsum ; all crests are made up of little fleshy knobs, or 

 grains, conical, forked, or elongated and acute, and all are red ; crested tuber- 

 cles in row on middle of side, small, and along basal ridge, larger; feet and pro- 

 legs red ; head obovoid, narrowing towards top, bilobed, the vertices high, rather 

 conical, each bearing a short black knob, the summit rounded, a little cone in 

 the middle thereof, and a cii clet of six others about it, springing from near the 

 base, each witli short bristle (Fig. /^); color wholly red, except across lower 

 front, where it is reddish-black ; the surface granulated and dotted with low 



