LYCAENIN.VK: FENISECA TAKQUINIUS. 



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patch; a siibmarftiiial series of small, wliitu, ruuuU anmilations, the space within sonie- 

 what darker than the outside, one In each interspace, that In the raedio-subniedian 

 double, smallest in the middle of the winj;, and increasing gradually in .size toward 

 cither border ; a slcndor thread of yellowish brown edfjcs the hind border. Fringe 

 much as above, excepting that the extreme Ijase has a faint, pale thread. 



Abdomen above and on the sides blacliish brown, l)el«w wliile; the appendages of 

 the nmle (34 : 35) with tlie upper orjian triangular as viewed from the side, the dorsal 

 portion much produced and notched, witli e(iual sides, iialf way to the base; lateral 

 arms very slender, aciculate, roundly Iwnt before the midtile, delicately tapering and a 

 little upcurved at the tip. Intromitteut organ equal, obliquely truncate at tip. Clasps 

 moderately stout, about two-thirds as long as the upper organ, the basal bullate por- 

 tion slightly longer than broad, the apical third half as broad as the basal, turned in- 

 ward a little at tip, the upper angle rectangular, the lower well rounded. 



Egg (65:24). Faint green, almost colorless, glistening; surface smooth and 

 glistening, tliough still very faintly puuctulate, broken ui) by very slight, slender and 

 equal, rounded elevations into polygonal cells whose height is a little greater than 

 their breadth, being about .Ofi X .OS mm. in size. Minute micropyle cells (68:9) 

 about iiii;: in diameter. Greater diameter of egg, .7 mm. ; height, .36 mm. 



Caterpillar. First stage. Head, chitinous shields of body and all papillae pale 

 greenish fuscous, incisures of head black ; ocellar tleld and region about it blackish 

 fuscous; labrum pale. Body faint greenish wliite; prolegs concolorous; legs infus- 

 cated; hairs as long as three segments ; spicules very sparsely distributed, scarcely 

 longer than the diameter of the hairs, and parting from them at a very slight angle. 

 Length of body, 1.6 mm. ; breadth, .3 mm. 



Second stage. Head fusco-fuliginous, the incisures darker; ocelli white in a black 

 field; mouth parts pale. Body pale mouse brown, the papillae and hairs l)lack ; hairs 

 gently arcuate, nearly as long as the width of tlie body at the extremities, tapering 

 with extreme regularity to the finest possible point, and microscopically spiculiferous; 

 they are mostly arranged in a single, somewhat sinuate, and not entirely regular, 

 transverse series, a little in advance of the middle of each segment. Chitinous 

 shield of first thoracic segment nearly as broad as the head, triangularly produced in 

 the middle anteriorly. Prolegs concolorous, each with about nine or ten booklets in a 

 single row ; legs dark fuscous. Spiracles pale testaceous. Length, 5 mm. ; breadth 

 in middle, 1.2 mm. ; at either extremity, .8 mm. ; of head, .4(; mm. 



For the next stages see 75 : 33 ; 79 : 43, 44. 



Last stage (75 -.H, il). Head (79:45) very pale green, a little infuscated, the 

 ocelli black in a dusky field ; mouth parts and antennae greenish luteous. Body 

 smoky brown, with a greenish tinge, marked with smoky pallid ; the whole dorsal 

 area indeed is smoky pallid, with slender, dorsal and laterodorsal, smoky brown 

 stripes, the former more or less interrupted, and both more or less tinged with oliva- 

 ceous, especially in front, where the thoracic segments are more or less clouded 

 between the stripes with olivaceous; more or less marked with pallid or whitish at 

 the Incisures and the posterior edge of the segments along the stigmatal and infra- 

 stigmatal lines. Hairs mingled blackish and pallid, giving the whole a fuzzy gray ap- 

 pearance: spicules as long as the diameter of the hairs. Along the sides each seg- 

 ment has three or four more or less obscured, blackish, dot-like spots, especially an 

 anterior, laterostigmatal spot, and the fuscous spot in which the minute, pallid spiracle 

 is placed. Legs pale greenish, the last joint more or less luteous. Length, 11 mm. ; 

 breadth, 2.5 mm. 



