LIMENITIS II. 



After fourth moult. 



Color red-ferruginous, the anterior segments 

 and dorsal patch red-buif, the appendages from .13 

 to .3 inch long (almost always over .21 inch), 

 glossy black, slender, tapering to top and bent for- 

 ward near top, at an angle (even the shortest are 

 bent), top thinly clothed with sharp spurs, which 

 are black, the tips tawny ; color of head red, the 

 lower part of face red-black. 



After fourth (the last) summer moult. 



Color variable, either dark red-brown (not fer- 

 ruginous), the anterior segments brown-buil, the 

 patch light-buff, pink-tinted, or, dark yellow- 

 brown, the anterior segments yellow-white, the 

 patch yellow, with buff tint; the appendages .12 

 to .22 inch long (almost always under .18 inch), 

 either clubbed and closely covered throughout 

 with tawny grains, sometimes mi.xed with black ; 

 or tapering for three quarters their length, then 

 clubbed, the club thickly covered witli grains ; 

 (the shorter processes are clubbed, the longer 

 tapering, but clubbed at top); head amber coloi\ 

 in some cases yellow-brown, the top and sides 

 pinkish. 



In general, at all stages after the first, the larvae of Eros are red ; those of 

 Dlsipjyus tawny and black. The remarkable prolongation of the appendages on 

 third segment in Eros, strikes the observer at first acquaintance forcibly, if 

 familiar with the short clubbed ones of Disipjnis. Of 8 larvte of Eros at third 

 moult, the lengths of these in hundredths inch were 11, 11, 12, 12, 14, 14, 14, 16 ; 

 averaging .1.3 inch. Of Dis'vppus at same stage, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10 : averaging 

 .76 inch. At fourth moult in Eros, 13, 14, 22, 24, 24, 26, 26, 26, 28, 30 ; aver- 

 aging .233 inch. Of Disippus, 12, 14, 15, 18, 22, averaging .102 inch. 



In the absence of a Plate of Disipj^its, this contrast in the appendages is well 

 shown by comparing Fig./^ of Eros, Plate, with Figs e" and /^ of Arthemis, as 

 well as the figures of the larvae in their several stages. 



