864 THE BUTTERFLIES (JF NEW ENGLAND. 



tioii ■^ivfu by Boisduval and LeConte. The basal spots oa the uiulcr surface of the 

 hind wings are also reduced to two small, rouiidisli spots. 



A single female from Long Island (Graef) has the upper surface entirely l)lackish 

 brown with no tawny scales, excepting a very few iucouspicuously scattered near the 

 hind margin of the hind wings; the tails are of the usual length, and the extra-mesial 

 band of the under surface of the hind wings is less tortuous thau common. Length 

 of fore wing, 13.," mm. 



Secondary sexual peculiarities. The discal stigma of the male is described 

 under the fore wing; the scales (46:23) found in it are remarkaljle for tlioir large 

 size and breadth, as they are less than two and a half times longer than broad, with 

 scarcely convex sides, and a general quadrangular shape, the basal lobes distinct but 

 not prominent. 



Egg (65:-l). Prominences gi'anulose, .11 mm. apart, and .049 mm. broad; surface 

 of shell more or less covered with rugosites. Micropyle rosette .22 mm. in diameter, 

 composed of a central circle .00425 mm. in diameter, surrounded by sis oval cells, 

 their longer axes directed toward the centre and .025 mm. long, the shorter .017 mm. 

 long; outside of these are angular cells of scarcely larger size, averaging about .034 

 mm. in greatest length. Color pale bluish green. Height, .32 mm. ; breadth, .G2 mm. 



Caterpillar. First stage (71 : S) . Head pallid yellowish green, slightly iufuscated 

 above ; ocelli black. Body Ijelow yellowish green ; sides (at least late in this stage) 

 with a liroad, faint, reddish brown stripe, its lower edge next the upper limit of the 

 lateral fold, narrowing anteriorly ; and a narrower dorsal baud of similar color but 

 not so distinct, merging into the other posteriorly, and, anteriorly, fading out so as 

 to be wholly absent from the thoracic segments. Hairs Ijrown. 



Seco)id stage. Head pale greenish luteous, the clypeus pallid and the labrum tinged 

 with pink ; ocelli pale, in a black Held ; mouth parts pale green. Body pale, dull, lemon 

 yellow, most conspicuous on lateral fold, the markings of the preceding stage repeated 

 with slightly deeper colors. Whole body also bristling with numerous and tilmost 

 equally distributed brown hairs, scarcely longer thau the middle segments of the body, 

 coarse and slightly tapering at tip, Ijut equal elsewhere, microscopically spiculiferous. 

 Legs and prolegs pale green. Spiracles pallid. Length, 1.75 mm. 



Last stage (75 : 30, 31). Head (79 : 27) pale green, incisures brown, clypeus white, 

 labrum testaceous ; basal joint of antennae white, rest pale testaceous ; other mouth 

 parts pale testaceous ; ocelli in a small circle, pale, with a basal black annulus. 



Body rich, dark velvety green, of exactly the color of juniper leaves, covered not 

 very profusely with short, brown or brown tipped, whitish pile. The most conspic- 

 uous markings are supralateral, broken rows of slightly oblique, white, sublunate 

 dashes on each of the abdominal segments, more or less tinged with green, and gen- 

 erally broadest in front ; and similar, but straighter, slenderer and more continuous 

 streaks forming an infrastigmatal band; midway between these, on the posterior 

 edges of the segments, is a line of faint, olilique, greenish white lines, far less con- 

 spicuous. All these markings are found also on all the thoracic segments, but the 

 upper two series on the first and second segments are merged into a large, transverse, 

 and somewhat obscure spot, on the first segment sometimes cuneiform and dull 

 orange. There is a slender, dorsal thread of pale green, marked at the incisures )jy a 

 dark green dot. Spiracles white. Legs pellucid green, iufuscated apically ; prolegs, 

 green, the claws black. Length, 15 mm. ; breadth, anteriorly, 3.0 mm. ; posteriorly 

 3 mm. 



Chrysalis (84:30,31). Rich wood-brown, the head, thorax aud appendages tend- 

 ing to a faint, greenish luteous, the abdomen to ferruginous; after death or eclosion 

 becoming dull yellowish brown, with a decided reddish tinge, heavily marked, espec- 

 ially on the under surface aud the whole abdomen, with vermicular blotches of black- 

 ish fuscous. In front of the abdomen, above and on the sides, these markings are 

 mostly confined to roundish or transverse blotches, irregularly and variably disposed, 

 but not occupying more than perhaps an eiglith of the surface ; on tlie abdomen they 

 are no more regularly but more uniformly distributed, and occupy nearly or quite half 



