1390 THE BUrrERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



broken from tlie extremity below, just above the spfracle ; ventral portion of the seg- 

 ment, iuchuling the sides as far as the dorsal shield, reddish. Kest of body yellowish 

 green, with a broad, lateral, lemon-yellow stripe, beeoming orange posteriorly, and 

 the dorsal fleld included thereby coarsely marked with lemon-yellow pustules; the 

 same, but to a much less marked extent, upon the sides of the body, as far as the in- 

 frastigmatal line; on the second thoracic segment, corresponding to the inferior 

 triangular fragment of the dorsal shield of tiie first segment, but higher than it, and 

 situated in the middle of the segment, a stout, low, fuscous wart; spiracles luteo- 

 fuscons; first pair of legs piceous, the other blackish fuscous; prolegs orange, with 

 blackish fuscous claws. Length, 21 ram. ; breadth of body, 3 mm. ; breadtli of head, 

 3 mm. Described from blown specimens. 



Last stage (76 : 34). Head (80: 12) luteo-castaneous with the orange spot .as in the 

 previous stage, but rounded and with the whole centre of the front of the head black- 

 ish fuscous, deepest in color beneath and becoming more ferruginous above; a similar 

 spot posteriorly, having its deepest tint in the ocellar fleld and becoming fusco-ferru- 

 glnous toward the collar, which is itself of this tint; ocelli vitreous; the dentlculations 

 of the summit of the head seen in the previous stages are much subdued ; the whole 

 surface is finely granulated, the granules clustering on the summit and posteriorly into 

 small low tubercles and on the front forming a part of a subdued vermiculation whicli 

 toward the lower portion of the head changes to a marked combing or striation con- 

 verging toward the mouth parts. 



First thoracic segment with a piceous dorsal shield on its posterior half having a 

 fuliginous anterior edge, the anterior half dirty yellow; otherwise as in the previous 

 stage, excepting that there are numerous, minute, whitish tubercles between the spira- 

 cles and the legs. Rest of the body yellowsh green with a distinct, broad, lemon 

 souietimes orange yellow or reddij^h, lateral stripe, a fine, blackish fuscous, interrupted, 

 dorsal line, an obscure, dull yellow, iufrastigmatal stripe and the dorsal parts of the 

 body, especially above the lateral stripe, marked with short, pale lemon yellow, longi- 

 tudinal combed streaks and irregular, arcuate, sinuous dots or slender, amoeboid patches 

 of blackish fuscous, more couspicuous on the broader anterior section of the segments, 

 and on the shorter section more frequently reduced to mere dots; everywhere ir- 

 regularly disposed, and when analyzed seen to be made up of a fuliginous ground 

 finely and uniformly dotted with black raised points; on the eighth and following 

 abdominal segments the lateral baud becomes broader, of a deeper orange or reddish 

 color, and margins the edge of the terminal segment. Legs and prolegs as befoi'e. 

 Length, 45 mm.; greatest breadth of body, 8 mm. ; breadth of head, 4.5 mm.; of 

 collar, 2.75 mm. Described from l)lown specimens. 



Dr. Juan Gundlach sends me the following description from living specimens in Cuba : 

 Head of liver color, on each side of the ocelli a red spot; mandibles black. Collar 

 black, the first ring below and on the sides of minium color. The general color of the 

 body is glaucous with little green spots and with black points on the superior part of 

 the stigmata which are dark orange red. The dorsal line is black, on the superior 

 sides of the body is an orange longitudinal band, becoming red behind, where the two 

 are joined over the anal ))late. The horny legs are dark brown externally, tlie fieshy 

 legs are orange colored. 



Chrysalis (85 : 23). Dark brown, according to Wittfeld ; when dried, fusco-luteous 

 beneath, above mahogany colored, more or less tinged with luteo-olivaceous, shining 

 throughout ; hairs of the head as well as the scant h.airs of the rest of the body luteous ; 

 tlic bristles of the prothoracic spiracles luteo-fuliginous ; the posterior lip of the spi- 

 racle itself piceous ; mesothorax faintly striate in irregular, transverse, wavy, somewhat 

 tortuous, distant lines. Abdominal segments sparsely, irregularly, and rather finely 

 punctate, the punctae fuscous. Cremaster dark fusco-castaneous. Length, 22.5 mm. ; 

 width of head, 5.25 mm. ; of mesothorax, 6.5 mm. ; of abdomen, 7.5 mm. ; length of 

 cremaster, 2.25 mm. 



