PIERINAE: ANTIIOCIl AKIS GENUTIA. 1149 



catcd on the posterior segraents, partlonlarly on the last, tlio tuhprcles infiiscntod, tlie 

 bristles black, l.e^s and proieifs of the color of tlie Ijody. Spiracles infuscatcd. 

 I-onath of body, I.:! mm. ; l)readtli, .0:! mm. ; breadth of head, .0;!,> mm. ; bristles, .08 

 mm. lonf;, .003 mm. broad. 



Second stage. Mead liftht l)ri)\VM, a little greenish ; one of the tubercles on tlic mid- 

 dle of tlie front of each side a little larfrcr than any otlier. Body light green or green 

 yellow, glossy, nniform, excepting for the presence of numerous, minute, very pale 

 brown, round spots, each supporting a minute and very sliort black hair. Length, 

 3.G mm. (.\fter Kduards.) 



Third stage. Head much a.s before, pale green witli two l)rownish discolorations 

 on the front ; two tubercles on tlie front more prominent than tlie rest. Body yel- 

 low-green, glossy, a yellowish, indistinct, mediodorsal l)and and a more distinct stig- 

 niatal band of wliite. lA-ngth, (i.Omni. (After Edwards.) 



Fourth stage. Head pale green in front, sides whitish, a cloudy brown patch on each 

 hemisphere; three tubercles larger than the rest, two upon the front, one over 

 the ocelli. Body dull yellow green, glossy, a mediodorsal yellow band not always 

 clear, except on the anterior segments, and a whitish or yellowish white stiginatal 

 band. Length, 9.7 mm. (.\fter Edwards.) 



Last stage (76: 5). Head (79 : .">4) pallid witli greenish inky l)lotclies, one large one 

 near the summit of either hemisphere, one occupying tlie frontal triangle with con- 

 siderable space on either side of it, and the ocellar rteld in a narrow band of the 

 same. The papillae are black in the inky blotches, pallid in the pallid, all the hairs 

 very delicate and white. 



Body striped with orange, bluish green, iuky blue, white, olivaceous and pale lemon 

 yellow successively, the white stripe being stigmatal and much broader than the 

 others, reaching on either side the large laterostigmatal and infrastigmatal papillae, 

 the orange dorsal and of similar width to tlie rest, and the under surface pale liluish 

 green. The papillae of the upper surface large and small are ivory black, set in circu- 

 lar lirown fields , all the hairs black. Last segment with a dorsal, rounded, lozenge- 

 shaped, biack shield. Basal joint of legs and prolegs pale lemon, remainder pale 

 green. Spiracles white. Surface of body microscopically marked with short, trans- 

 verse, shallow striae, sometimes degenerating into sliallow punctae. Length. 22 mm. ; 

 width of head. 2.1 mm. ; of body, 3 mm. 



Chrysalis (84: .59). .Surface of body strongly crinkled, on the anterior half trans- 

 versely, on the posterior half irregularly but with a decided longitudinal trend; other- 

 wise smooth and glistening with an occasional exceedingly delicate .and short, pale 

 hair, scarcely observable. Tlie upper surface of thorax pallid, strongly tinged with 

 greenish yellow distributed more or less in i>atches and with black flecks irregularly 

 scattered about. Head with its frontal projection almost wholly of a uniform plum- 

 beous brown, a color which is shared by the antennae; wing cases and legs with a 

 more yellowish cast, especially on the apical half; both, as well as all the anterior 

 parts, flecked irregularly and very sparsely with black dots of varying sizes. An 

 oblique, black patch at the base of each tongue-case, diverging posteriorly from eacli 

 other. The wings also provided in the miildle of the upper border with a large, trian- 

 gular, black p.atch and across the wing at an e<|nivalent point of the costal margin a 

 transverse and irregular black streak. Between this and the preceding, two narrow, 

 longitudinal, black lines. .-Vbdomen pallid yellow, dull purple in circular pustules 

 around blackish dots, with spiracles bright testaceous. Total length, 20 mm. ; iu a 

 straight line connecting the tips, 18 ram. ; breadth in the middle, 3.25 mm. ; at cre- 

 master. .7.5 mm. 



Qeographical distribution (26 :o). This butterfly has never been 

 found very abunehint, and the memoranda of its capture are so scanty that 

 no exact account of its distribution is possible. It appears, however, to 

 be generally confined to the southern Iialf of the Alleglianian and the 



