PAMPIIILIDI ATALOPEDES HUKOX. 1665 



it at first pallid, next the collar of tho lioail pinkisii fuscous ; lirst pair of thoracic legs 

 blackish castaueous; the fleshy l>asal joints ami the inferior surface of the first 

 corneous joint discolored, like the anterior part of the segment above; second pair of 

 thoracic legs with the three apical joints slightly lighter in color than the first pair; 

 the third pair with the apical joint and apical half of the penultimate joint like tlie 

 second pair of legs ; the rest of the second and third pair of legs, like the prolegs, 

 concolorous with the body; thoracic spiracle blackish fuliginous; other spiracles 

 pallid, with a tine testaceous rim ; rest of body as in previous stages. Length, 20 mm. ; 

 breadth of body, 2.5 mm. ; of head, 2.25 mm. Described from a blown specimeu. 



Last staije (77 :31). Head (80: 71) as in previous stage, but with the luteous cloud 

 of the under surface of head more distinct and extended, and in addition there is on 

 either side of the median furrow above the triangle a narrow, vertical, f usco-luteous 

 streak ; mouth parts testaceous ; the tip of the sides of the labrum luteous ; the edges 

 of the mandibles blackish ; the labial apparatus pale luteous. 



Body pale green, more or less clouded with darker fuscous green, profusely 

 sprinkled with excessively minute blackish fuscous papillae, each bearing an exces- 

 sively short, fulvous hair; dorsal thoracic shield black, transversely cleft along the 

 mediodoi'sal liue, and just above its termination at the sides incised and partly severed 

 by pallid papillae, the transverse furrow dull, dark castaueous; it is edged in front by 

 a naked, pallid band, of equal width, in front of which, at the greater constriction of 

 the segment, the surface is much discolored, as also beneath over the whole .iegmeut; 

 the last three joints of all the thoracic legs blackish, the antepenultimate of the third 

 pair less conspicuously; prolegs and base of thoracic legs concolorous; all the 

 spiracles black; annuli of the crateriform disks blackish fuscous. Length, 40 mm.; 

 breadth of body, 6 mm. ; of head, 3.T5 mm. Described from blown specimens. 



Chrysalis (85 : 43, 47). Dark reddish brown, the thorax and wings nearly uni- 

 form, the head with three large, round, luteo-fulvous spots, arranged triangularly, one 

 occupying the most prominent part of the front, antl two lying side by side between the 

 basal joints of the antennae ; the mandibles and all the incisures are also of the same 

 color, as are also the ocellar ribbon and the parts immediately around it; abdomen, 

 excepting the basal joint, which, like the metathorax, is of the same color as the meso- 

 thorax, testaceous, probably more or less greenish in life, much mottled in a regular 

 fashion with blackish fuscous spots, which are most abundant on tlie dorsal parts, and 

 often merge; among them is a large, transverse, lateral spot placed in advance of the 

 middle, two or three suprastigmatal spots, often merging, a curving, infrastigmatal 

 spot and a series of ventrostigmatal central dots; creraaster luteo-castaneous, infus- 

 ca ted along the carinae; booklets confined to the extreme tip, castaueous. Length, 

 21mm.; height, 5 mm.; breadth of head, 4.25 mm.; length of creraaster, 2 mm. 

 Described from dried specimens. 



This species is considered by some as identical with that described from 

 California by Boisduval under the specific name campestris. This may 

 prove to be the case, but the specimens of the two which I have seen will 

 not permit such a conclusion , and they are therefore here regarded as dis- 

 tinct. 



Distribution (31: 1). This is a wide spread species of the Carolinian 

 fauna, where it is found in the greatest abundance from Florida (Maynard, 

 Chapman, Palmer, Wittfeld), South Carolina (Scudder) and AVest Vir- 

 ginia (Edwards), to central Texas (Boll, Belfrage), southern Texas next 

 the Rio Grande (Aaron, Lintner), New Mexico (Aaron) and eastern 

 Kansas, abundant' (Snow). But it extends beyond our territory, for, 

 though known in Florida only as far south as Brevard County (Wittfeld), 



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