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angle. There are three dark lines forming the outer 

 border, — one on the edge and two a little within the 

 edge ; and in some specimens the ocelli are in a band 

 a little paler than the ground color. 



The under side is drab-gray, both wings crossed by two 

 rusty lines ; the ocelli more prominent than above, each 

 of the ocelli of the hind wings repeated, with the smaller 

 one at the end of the series, and silver traces of two more 

 between ; the triple terminal lines as above. 



The egg is of a yellowish-green color, nearly round, 

 covered with fine irregularly hexagonal reticulations. 



The young larva hatches from this in eight days. It 

 is .08 of an inch long, cylindrical, tapering each way 

 from the middle, the last joint ending in two short tails, 

 with fine white hairs on the body. Color pinkish white, 

 marked longitudinally by seven crimson lines. Head 

 subglobose, nearly twice as broad as any other segment, 

 depressed slightly at the top, with a small conical process 

 from each vertex ; color dark brown. 



In seven days it passes the first moult, when it is .16 of 

 an inch long, and changes to drab, of either a green or a 

 red tint, with five dull red stripes, the whole surface finely 

 but roughly tuberculated, each tubercle emitting a short 

 hair. Color of head yellowish finely mottled with red. In 

 six days it moults the second time, when it is .24 of an 

 inch long, shaped as before, with a fleshy ridge at the 

 feet. Color dull ochrey yellow, striped with seven brown 

 stripes ; head yellow marked with brown. It feeds four- 

 teen days before moulting the third time, when it is .44 

 of an inch long. The color is the same marked with 

 reddish, the stripes subobsolete. It is thirty days before 

 it moults the fourth and last time. 



