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Hind wings black, with violet reflections ; the base of 

 the wing washed with fulvous. There is a black spot in 

 the cell, an irregular row of yellowish spots beyond the 

 cell, and a marginal row of fulvous spots. Fringes alter- 

 nate spots of black and white. Under side of fore wings 

 fulvous, white along the costa, a marginal row of silver 

 spots enclosed in black crescents, and some silver on the 

 costa and near the apex. The black of the upper side 

 repeated. Under side of hind wings yellowish brown, 

 with twenty-nine silver spots and patches, besides some 

 silver shading. 



The female differs from the male in being larger, in 

 the terminal band of the fore wings being broader and 

 containing a row of white spots, with six more white 

 spots near the apex, and in the outer row of spots on the 

 hind wings being of the same color as the inner. 



An aberrant form, Ashtaroth, more suffused than 

 the typical form, is sometimes found. 



Mr. Edwards describes the egg as conoidal, truncated, 

 rounded at the base, the sides well rounded, depressed at 

 the summit, marked vertically by about eighteen ribs, 

 half of which extend to the summit, and between these 

 equidistant transverse slightly-raised stria?. 



In about twenty-five days the larva hatches from 

 this. It is cylindrical, somewhat thickest in the middle. 

 Color pale yellow-brown, translucent ; each segment from 

 3 to 12 marked by a transverse row of eight elongate 

 tubercular dark spots, the whole forming eight longitu- 

 dinal rows; one or two long, black, carved hairs arising 

 from each tubercle. Head bilobed, the vertices rounded. 



After the first moult the color becomes cinereous, 

 mottled and striped with brown ; a macular stripe along 



