340 ^^^^ BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



joints after the second thickly lined with fine streaks 

 of green and yellow. Spiracles black. Head high, 

 narrow, blackish, bordered round the top and sides by 

 white, and with two white incurved (concave to each 

 other) streaks on the upper third of the face; these 

 separated by velvety black. 



Chrysalis. — Length 1.2 inches, nearly cylindrical, 

 light brown, covered with white powder; the abdom- 

 inal joints pubescent; the wing-cases prolonged into 

 a short subulate point; the abdomen long, tapering 

 slightly, the end bluntly rounded. 



The larva feeds on saw-palmetto, forming a tube of 

 the fan-like segments of the leaves, in which it lies con- 

 cealed until it changes. 



Gulf States. 



164. Pamphila Palatka, Edw. 



Expanse of wings from 1.45 to 1.5 inches. 



Male. — Upper surface dark brown ; the outer third ot 

 the cell of the fore wings, and about the middle third of 

 the wing below the cell, except a narrow posterior bor- 

 der, clear yellow ; the basal third of the wing washed 

 with yellow, blending into the clear yellow of the middle, 

 so that without a glass the whole of this appears yellow. 

 Beyond the cell there are about three yellow spots in 

 the subcostal interspaces, sometimes the first and second 

 obscure. Stigma oblique, narrow, broken in the middle, 

 dull black. There is also a bar across the end of the 

 cell. Hind wings yellow, with a broad terminal and 

 costal border. 



Under side of hind wings and anterior part of fore 

 wings brown, heavily overlaid with russety scales, so as 



