662 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



sliglitl.v darker and tlieir bristles pale broAvu and moderately long. Prolegs color of 

 body; legs pale, semitransparent. Length, 1.5-2.5 mm. (after Saunders). 



Second stage. Head (79 : 16) black and shining, with a few short, pale brownish 

 hairs. Body above brownish black, dotted and spotted with greenish, with a pale 

 greenish white stigniatal band, having a broken brownish line running through it; the 

 tubercles generally black, encircled at base and varied at tip with greenish, and the 

 bristles black, but in the stigmatal band often wholly greenish ; under surface of body 

 paler and greenish. Legs tipped with black; prolegs pale, semitransparent. The 

 bristles are partly spiculiferous, partly smooth, and then swollen at base. Length, 

 4.5-0 mm. (after Saunders, Edwards and Gruber). 



The stage described as "after the first moult" by Saunders was evidently taken 

 during the first stage, as the fleshy tubercles were not yet developed. 



Third stage (79:17). Head black, covered more or less with black hairs. Body 

 black brown above, greenish brown below, the tubercles longer than in preceding- 

 stage, with broad bases and with the bristles black. Length. 6 ram. (after Edwards). 



Fourth stage (79 : 18). Head rather cordate, broadest above, appressed, piceous, the 

 surface covered with many black hairs of unequal length. Body black brown or red- 

 dish brown above, with a few gray dots, smoky brown beneath; there is sometimes a 

 stigmata], broken yellow stripe or testaceous baud, dotted with whitish, but the color 

 here is tisually dull green, and the yellow wanting; a few blue dots arranged in tAvo 

 transverse lines behind the dorsal series of tubercles. The tubercles themselves are 

 stout at base, long, black or rufous, the tubercules closely croAvded and piceous ; stig- 

 mata blackish. Legs black; prolegs rufous. Length, 8.5-20 mm. (after EdAvards and 

 Lintner). 



Fifth stage (75 : 15). Head (79 : 19) shining piceous, coA'-ered Avith infrequent, rather 

 long, blackish, more or less reddish broAvu, tapering hairs, seated on minute black 

 warts; basal joint of antennae very dark plumbeous, remainder black. Ocelli black; 

 mouth parts black. Body above rich velvety black ; a stigmatal, dull orange band 

 extending the whole length of the body ; from the loAver base of the suprastigma- 

 tal roAv of spines to midway between the infrastigmatal roAV and that beloAv it, 

 streaked, betAA'een the spiracles, Avith dark jpurplish ; beneath oliA^aceous brown; the 

 Avhole body abundantly dotted Avith minute, transversely oval or circular, whitish 

 spots, each giving rise to a very delicate, rather short, blackish hair; anterior spinous 

 hairs of the first thoracic segment black, spines dark livid broAvn or blackish, those of 

 the lowest roAV upon the base of the prolegs black; the needles of all the spines black, 

 excepting on the infrastigmatal row, where they are yellowish broAvn. Spiracles 

 black, encircled with pale. Legs black, claws reddish; prolegs brownish yellow. 

 Length, 23 mm. ; breadth of body, 4 mm. ; length of spines, 1.5 mm. ; breadth of 

 head, 2.05 mm. 



Chrysalis (84: I'J). Upper surface of head, thorax and first abdominal segment 

 Avhite, very prettily, profusely and irregularly mottled, streaked and speckled Avith 

 reddish fuscous, occasionally changing to black, the heavier markings of the mesono- 

 tum arranged to some extent around the laterodorsal tubercles ; the tips of the ocellar 

 prominences are united above by a transverse black streak ; ocellar ribbon edged aboA'e 

 AAath black. LoAver surface of head and linear appendages much like the thorax; the 

 antennae are rather distantly annulated Avith white, and marked basally with blackish ; 

 the principal joints of the legs are marked with white, edged basally with black; the 

 apical half of the tongue is infuscated. Wings dull white, profusely marked Avith 

 creasings of reddish fuscous, giving them a brownish hue, and heavily streaked Avith 

 broad, longitudinal black dashes, especially at the posterior border, the basal half of 

 the costal border, and the extremity of the cell ; seA'eral similar collected streaks next 

 the posterior border, at one-third the distance from the superior and inferior borders ; 

 there is also a submarginal roAV of Avhite dots ; there is a lieaA'j' transA'erse streak at 

 the basal Aving tubercle, and at the supernumerary tubercle a curving, oblique streak, 

 Avhich infringes on the outer border of the metanotum. Abdomen pale yelloAvish, 

 faintly but rather abundantly marked Avitli j'ellowish brown, and slightly with black; 



