184 i'BlE butterflies of the 



ai)ical. The costal margin of the hind wings is oliva- 

 ceous, with a median band similar to that of the fore 

 wings; the inner margin and tail portion of the outer 

 margin lilac. Crossing both wings is a row of black 

 points, those on the hind wings within a brown ferru- 

 ginous band. 



The female differs from the above in having the under 

 side more of a brown suffused with blue-gray. 



Tlie eggs are pale green, conoidal in form, with the 

 base flattened. The sides are rounded, and marked by 

 eight or nine ribs, which are low near the base, but higher 

 above, terminating abruptly around a small flat space at 

 the top. 



The young larvse are whitish yellow, somewhat marked 

 with brown, head shining black. After the first moult 

 their color is black more or less specked with white, and 

 they begin to be clothed with short spines, all black except 

 those on the eighth and tenth segments, which are whitish. 

 After the second moult they begin to assume the type 

 they retain to maturity. The spines are in seven rows, 

 fleshy at base, slender and many-branching at extremity ; 

 the dorsal and first lateral on joint 3 are black, on joints 

 2, 4, and 11 russet, the rest yellow ; the second laterals 

 black throughout, the lowest row greenish ; head bilobed, 

 black, with short black spines at vertices. After the third 

 moult the larvae vary greatly both in color of body and 

 spines. Some are black finely specked with yellowish ; 

 others are yellow-brown specked with yellow tubercles ; 

 others gray-brown, with indistinct reddish lines between 

 the spines on the dorsal and two lateral rows, and much 

 tuberculated ; others are black, with fulvous stripes and 

 profusely covered with yellowish tuberculated spots and 



