498 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



tied with orange, and along the stigmatal line with pnrplish gray, forming there a 

 broad band. Tubercles steel blue at base, the lower half of stem dull luteous, apical 

 half blackish fuscous or black, the terminal spinuleless than half as long as the tuber- 

 cle. Length, 22 mm. 



Last stage (74 : 29, 30). Head (78 : (50) as in last stage, but with a metallic brown 

 gloss. Body black-gra}', velvety black in a transverse belt at the base of the spines, 

 marked with orange-yellow and orange on the dorsal aspect, arranged in short trans- 

 verse bars and dots, always surrounded with black; on the sides a maculate double 

 stripe, stigmatal (or slightly suprastigmatal) and infrastigraatal of clay-yellow. All 

 the tubercles with a metallic lustre, a steel blue base and an apex darker than the more 

 or less luteous stem. Stigmata brown with a black rim and a narrow light brown 

 annulus. Length, 32 mm. 



Chrysalis (83 : 56, 57, G5-G7). Head, thorax, legs and wings mostly very pale 

 dull salmon color, all but the wings and the front of the head mottled heavily with 

 pale greenish brown ; tongue case dusky green ; antennae gray -brown, interrupted nar- 

 rowly with blackish ; wings mottled on the basal half and along upper border witli 

 greenish brown and ornamented with a row of small, arrow-sliaped black spots in the 

 interspaces, arranged in. a row parallel to the hinder border in the middle of the outer 

 three-fifths of the Aving, the spot in the loAver median interspace much larger than the 

 others and closed behind, enclosing a pale spot; abdomen olive brown in mingled 

 blotches of slightly darker and paler tints, giving it a somewhat variegated appearance 

 under the lens ; across the upper portion of the posterior half of the fourth abdominal 

 segment, stretching from spiracle to spiracle, is an irregular, partially disconnected, nar- 

 row band of very pale salmon, and across the upper portion of the posterior half of the 

 eighth segment is another similar but unbroken band, both connected together by a 

 narrow, mottled, dorsal band, and the latter broadened by extending over the whole 

 upper half of the ninth segment, except where a pair of oblique blackish dashes cover 

 the surface, running from the dorsal line at the posterior edge of the segment and 

 diverging forward. All the tubercles in advance of the fourtli abdominal segment, 

 excepting the dorsal ones, are flanked posteriorly by a roundish cream colored patch; 

 the rest of the tubercle and all the other tubercles reddish with black tips. The abraded 

 surfaces of the abdominal segments are blue gray mottled with brownish fuscous ; 

 spiracles blackish bordered with pale cinereous ; there is an indistinct, pale salmon, 

 substigmatal, narrow band and a broad but otherwise similar lateroventral band ; ante- 

 rior edge of the head blackish. Length, 17 mm. ; height of abdomen, G.5 mm. ; height 

 of thorax, G.2 mm. Described from a fresh specimen sent by Dr. C. V. Ililey. 



Another specimen which has been parasitized is quite different, being wholly golden, 

 the tubercles with a slight umber hue; those of the wings a little infuscated. Joints 

 of the antennae marked subapically with a small marginal (on the club submarginal) 

 blackish fuscous spot on either side ; tip of the tongue black, previously growing 

 blackish. Along the middle of the outer third of the wings is a row of three black 

 dots placed in interspaces, one posterior, apparently in the medio-submedian, the 

 other two anterior, apparently in subcostal interspaces ; and in each of the two inter- 

 spaces between these two sets a minute wart of the color of the wing ; tlie warts 

 of the suprastigmatal and infrastigmatal abdominal rows are black, and there are be- 

 sides lateroventral and su))venti'al I'ows of black spots as large as the warts just 

 mentioned, the former posteriorly placed on the fourth to sixth abdominal segments, 

 the latter centrally placed on the fifth and sixth abdominal segments; a very few 

 blackish dots are scattered irregularly over the abdominal segments. Tubercles 'of 

 the preanal button black. Cremaster golden ; the marginal ridge of the under sur- 

 face and the middle of the tip of the upper surface black ; booklets dark mahogany. 

 Spiracles concolorons Avith the body. Length, 25 mm. ; of cremaster, 2 mm. ; width 

 at basal Aving tubercles, 8 mm. ; at supernumerary Aving tubercles, 8 mm. ; at tip of 

 ocellar prominences, 4 mm. 



Geographical distribution (21 : 2). Coenia seems to belong to the 



