LIMKNITIS il. 



rounded or pointed tubercles (Figs. (/, (f), those at and near tlie top lai-gest, 

 nearly all red, but a few black both on front and side face; around tlie top 

 of head and down the sides at back, a row of sharp spurs, some simple, some 

 branching or forked (Fig. (j), and one of these rises behiml the process on ver- 

 tex, and overtops it (Fig./''); color of the spurs red. (Figs. /,/'^,y*.) 



At one day after fourth moult: length .^5 inch; all the dark parts paler, the 

 red changing to brown, and more or less mottled dark green ; the basal stripe and 

 the tubercles on it pure white ; the patch lighter, with a yellow tint ; the beads 

 changed IVom red to l)lue. 



At two days from fourth moult : length 1 inch ; the red parts now olive-brown. 

 The larvae reach maturity at about three days from fourth moult. 



Mature L.vry.v. — Length at re.st 1.2 inch, greatest breadth, .26 inch; length 

 in motion 1.5 inch. As described under fourth moult, but the dark parts are 

 now olive-green, the beads blue; the dorsal patch either reddish-brown, or pink- 

 white ; the anterior segments pale red-brown ; the stripe along the basal ridge 

 broad, white, with a green tint; the head pale red. (Fig./-.) . 



At from 4 to 5 days from fourth moult, pupation takes place. 



Chrysalis. — Length LI inch; head case sub-pyramidal; the vertices have 

 each a low elevation, triangular; mesonotum high, rounded, with a thin low 

 carina which ri.ses to a blunt apex, .sloping either way about equally ; wing cases 

 much elevated above the surface on the dorsal and posterior sides, the middle 

 being incurved ; on middle of dorsum rises a process. l)road at base but rapidly 

 narrowing to a sharp edge, rounded at top, not c[iiite circular, the anterior part 

 having a more rapid curve than the other ; the space between the base of this 

 and the wing cases corrugated ; abdomen sub-cjdindrical, a little compressed lat- 

 erally, rising to a low medic-dorsal ridge ; color of anterior parts, head and me- 

 sonotum brown ; the dorsal side of head case imperfectly silvered ; wing cases 

 deeper brown, the raised ridges blackish ; the dorsal process same color as the 

 wings; at ba.se on either side is an oblique black bar which crosses three seg- 

 ments, and the space between these and the wing cases is silvered on a whitish 

 ground ; abdomen buff, mottleil with gray-green or olive-green, on ventral side 

 quite uniformly, but on the rest the dark shades are faint and do not much <lis- 

 color the light ; the last segments dark, like head. (Fig. k.) Duration of this 

 stage 8 daj'S. 



The only examples which I have seen of this fine butterfl^^ have lieen sent me 

 by Dr. William Wittfeld, who has taken it in considerable numbers, at Indian 

 River, Florida, during 1880 and subsequent j^ears. But I learn from Mr. T. L. 

 Mead, now of Lake Eustis, Orange Co., Florida, that he has seen Eros both there 

 and in North Florida. At Indian River, it is the only red Limenitis flying. Dr. 



