1002 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW EXGLAND. 



(below, encircled with white). The two cellular spots remain unchanged. Why I 

 connect this with "sufftision," is that in one specimen, in which on the upper sur- 

 face the extra-mesial spots are reduced to obscure dots, with the exception of the 

 lower median spot of the left wing, the under surface shows these spots also partially, 

 tliough less, obliterated, and the lower of the two extra-cellular spots of the right wing 

 (invisible without a lens on the upper surface) is of scarcely less than the normal size, 

 besides having a long, Ijlaok tongue which extends nearly to the cell, wliile most of the 

 other spots of the same row, on both wings, though much smaller than normal, are 

 decidedly elongated instead of round or quadrate. In the hind wing also, as usually 

 in the normally suft'used specimens (if such an expression may be allowed for an 

 aberration), the extra-mesial spots of the under surface are almost altogether obliter- 

 ated and in the same manner, the median spots being, as there, the most persistent. 

 This form of aberration, where the weakness of the spots has been carried to jiartial 

 obliteration, is much rarer than the ordinary strigate suffusion. 



H. H. FULUOLA {Clirysophamis amerlcanus var.fuUioJus Mnlst, Ent. Amer. , ii : 182, 

 1886). In this "the coppery red is replaced by an equally glowing, somewhat sooty 

 yellow," according to Hulst. It is perhaps not dift'erent from a specimen captured at 

 Ellsworth, Me., in 18SC by Mr. Carl Braun which is remarkable for having tlie fiery red 

 of the upper surface uniformly bleached to a pale, but glistening safl'ron; a faded trace 

 of the original brilliant color is found only on the griseous costal margin of the front 

 wings and at the anal angle of the hind wings. The specimen is tolerably fresh and 

 was captured, according to Mr. Braun, in its present condition. It corresponds in 

 this species to the aberration of Heodes phlaeas named schmidtii. 



Finally an aberratio ns recorded in the Bull. Brookl. ent. soc. , ii : 8, in which the 

 under surface of the hind wing on the right side is "marked by red dashes running 

 from base to exterior margin." 



Egg 65: 21). Cells subcircular but angulated, the largest about .19 mm. in diam- 

 eter, the smaller about .1 mm., excepting next tlie base, where they are only .045 mm. 

 broad; they are bounded by distinct, heavy, greatly elevated walls, thickened at the 

 junction of several cells; the surface within the cells is shallowly concave and 

 marked by delicate, excessively tortuous lines, covering the whole area and giving it 

 the appearance of frosted glass. Micropyle rosette (68:10) .12 mm. in diameter, 

 made up of little lenticular cells, about .01 mm. in diameter. Color very delicate pale 

 green, the walls of the cells white or lioary. Height, .29 mm. ; breadth, .62 mm. 



Caterpillar. First stage (71 : 1). Head (79 : 39) pale testaceous, the sutures of the 

 triangle blackish fuscous ; ocelli blackish fuscous ; edge of labrum and mouth parts 

 tinged with ferruginous. Body pale yellowish green, with a dark brownish spot on 

 the top of terminal segment; warts, both simple and hair-bearing, blackish fuscous, 

 those of the laterostigmatal series with a pale centre ; hairs pale brownish; stigmata 

 testaceous. Legs greenish yellow; claws fuscous; prolegs yellowish. Length, 1.12 

 mm. ; width, .26 mm. ; length of superior longest hairs, .5 mm. ; of superior shorter 

 hairs, .14 mm. ; of lateral hairs, .17 mm. ; width of head, .25 mm. 



Second stage. In this stage the whole aspect of the creature has changed on a 

 minute inspection. The form becomes less exaggerated in its distinctions between 

 front and hind end, the body is broadest at the second thoracic segment, and instead 

 of the single series of excessively long, spiculiferous hairs, there are now a multi- 

 tude of series with spiculiferous hairs ; but the hairs are not nearly so curving nor so 

 long, and all are of the same length ; there are about twenty-flve liairs to a segment ; 

 besides these the crateriform warts have increased in number, are lower down than 

 before, not all in one row, several on a segment of unequal size and varying from seg- 

 ment to segment, and even apparently at the two sides of the body. The skin is deli- 

 cately shagreened, and the body is of a pale, pellucid brown color. Spiracles black 

 rimmed. Length, 2.2 mm. ; breadth, .5 mm. 



Third stage. Head blackish castaneous, antennae pale. Body above and below 

 delicate grass green, slightly darker along the middle of the sides; a faint, dusky, 

 dorsal line. Hairs brownish fuscous, curving backward a little. Spiracles luteo- 



