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fulvous and white repeated, blue along the costa, in the 

 cell, and beyond the fulvous band. The hind wings are 

 marbled with brown, olive, olive-brown, gray, and pale 

 violet, a series of five partially distinct submarginal 

 ocelli imperfectly pupillcd. 



The eggs are green, barrel-shaped, with ^^" ^^' 

 nine vertical ribs which are highest at the top, 

 the ribs grooved on each side perpendicularly 

 to the surface of the egg. 



The young larva is greenish broAvn, semi- 

 translucent, and furnished with ten rows of 



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black, curved hairs. Joints 2 and 13 have egg, x 20. 

 black dorsal patches. 



After the first moult it is wholly black-brown, armed 

 with seven rows of short, slender, branching black spines. 

 Head bilobed, the vertices rounded. After the third 

 moult the body is more black, each segment creased, on 

 the creases many minute whitish tubercles; a macular 

 greenish-yellow stigmatal band ; head brown. In reach- 

 ing maturity it passes four moults. 



The mature larva is 1.3 inches long, cylindrical, en- 

 larged in the middle, and of a velvet-black color thickly 

 sprinkled with fine yellow points, with a stigmatal line of 

 greenish-yellow patches. It has seven rows of moder- 

 ately long, slender, branching spines, which are usually 

 black; but in some specimens they are pale yellow- 

 white, more or less reddish at base. Head rounded, 

 bilobed, the vertices rounded, thickly covered with black, 

 simple spines. 



The chrysalis is from .85 to .95 of an inch long, 

 cylindrical, the abdomen stout, the dorsal tubercles 

 gilded, the lateral in two rows and black. Color vari- 



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