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inner margin just below the ocellus. Ocellus jet-black, 

 with an orange bent bar, and clouded with blue on the 

 basal side. There are some blue clouds inside the yellow 

 row. Tail .4 of an inch long, black, with an ovate yellow 

 spot near the tip. 



Most of the ground color of the under side yellow, 

 the blue clouds more distinct, and some orange beyond 

 the discal cell of hind wings and at the anal angle. 



Body black above, sides and under parts yellow. 



Egg spherical, a little flattened at the base, pale ochre, 

 with sometimes a greenish tinge, at other times inclining 

 to orange. 



Fig. 21. 



P. Cresphontes, larva. 



The young larva is dark brown, beset with tubercles, 

 from which spring short hairs, the sixth and eleventh 

 segments straw color. After the first moult there is but 

 little change, as also after the second. After the third 



