CHIONOBAS III. 



serrated, with a S2)ur along the upper side of lower branch of sub-costal ; the 

 inner edge angular from costa to median, with a deep angular sinus at median ; 

 the ocellus repeated. 



Body above, dark brown ; beneath, the thorax blackish, abdomen yellow-brown ; 

 legs yellowish, the long hairs of the femora black ; palpi black, in front brown ; 

 antenna? aunulated brown and gray, on under side gray ; club ferruginous above, 

 gray below, the tip black. 



Female. — Expands from 2.1 to 2.4 inches. 



Upper side more yellow ; the costal and hind margins as in the male ; the 

 ocelli vary from two to four, — tliere being in the latter case one in each median 

 interspace ; and usually all, or at least the three uppermost, are pupilled ; second- 

 aries and the under side of both wings as in male ; sometimes there is a small 

 ocellus on either side of the large one on secondaries. 



Egg. — Sub-conic, broadest at base, nearly as broad as high ; rounded at top ; 

 ornamented by about eighteen vertical ridges, the sides of which are irregularly 

 excavated ; part of these terminate at about three quarters the distance from 

 base to summit, and the remainder gradually sink to the surface; the spaces be- 

 tween, over the top, irregularly and shallowly j^itted (Fig. a). 



Young Larva. — Length .11 inch; body stout anteriorly, tapering from 

 fourth seo-ment to last, which ends in two blunt conical tails, each of which sends 

 out a short terminal white bristle ; color at first soiled white, soon aftergreen- 

 ish-white, striped with dull red, or red-ljrown; a broad stripe on middle of 

 dorsum ; on the upper part of the side another, running to the end of tail ; 

 a third, substigmatal, somewhat macular ; between the dorsal and lateral band 

 a brown line, and a second just below the lateral ; on each segment from three 

 to twelve on either side are three rows of clubbed hairs, each of which springs 

 from a tu1)ercle ; head lai'ge, rounded, narrowing towards top, the surface thickly 

 covered with shallow punctures ; color dull yellow ; across the upper front face 

 is a curved row of four rounded browir tubercles, and a second row of six across 

 middle; and from each springs a dark clubbed hair; the ocelli black (Fig. b). 



This larva was sent by Mr. Mead from Virginia City, Nev., and was but just 

 out of the egg when received. It had emerged on the upper part of one side, 

 and was clasped about the shell when I opened the box. This was August 18, 

 1877. It lived till September 21, and when very near the first moult was acci- 

 dentally killed. It fed readily on grass, and in behavior was not unlike other 

 Satyrids at same stage. It is evident that this species does not hybernate imme- 

 diately from the egg, but the length of the first stage was such that I apprehend 

 hybernation would naturally occur when the larva was about half grown. As 

 the body enlarged the anterior segments equaled the head in diameter, the 

 last segment became red-brown, and a collar of same color appeared upon the 



