EREBIA III. 



Female. — Expands 1.8 to 2 inches. 



Similar to the male in color and markings, except that the ocelli are enlarged, 

 and are often very conspicuous (Fig. 5); the tint of fulvous of under side is 

 often a decided color ; occasional e.xamples show five ocelli on primaries, the 

 fifth being in submedian interspace ; in one under view, the upper pair and the 

 fourth spot are large, the third is small, and the fifth is of half the diameter of 

 the third, and all five have white pupils. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



Var. Brucei. This differs from the type in having no ocelli on either wing ; 

 and the under side of secondaries of nearly uniform shade, with little or no trace 

 of a band. But in some examples which show no ocelli on upper side of pri- 

 maries, there are black points on one or both surfaces, in the disGoidal inter- 

 spaces. (Figs. 6, 7.) 



Egg. — Sub-ovoidal, a little flattened at base, the top depressed and a little 

 convex; broadest just above base, narrowing towards summit; about one fifth 

 higher than broad ; marked by about thirty-five vertical, somewhat sinuous, 

 ridges, most of which extend from base to the rim of summit, but a few from 

 base one third to one half up, or from summit as far down, and join tlie main 

 ridges ; these are high, narrow at top and flattened or rounded, the sides sloping, 

 a little incurved, the bottom of the depression rounded ; the micropyle is in the 

 centre of a rosette of several concentric rinti's of minute cells ; color chalk- 

 white. (Figs, a, «-. ) Duration of this stage about twelve days. The egg resem- 

 bles that of McKjdalena in sculpture, but is less regularly ovoidal, and the base 

 is flattened. 



Young Larva. — Length, at twenty-four hours from the egg, .11 inch; thick- 

 est anteriorly, tapering very gradually on back and sides to 7 or 8, then more 

 rapidly, the dorsum arching to 13, which ends bluntly, without tails; furnislied 



with three rows of blackish, sub-conical 

 tubercles, each of which gives a white 

 process ; these rows are dorsal, sub- 

 dorsal, and lateral ; on 2 tliere is an ad- 

 ditional tubercle back of and between 

 'i^\\ ^jj^-j^- '^'■\l-'\'^'\l^^y^V<h:^c:__ those of two upper rows, and another a 

 p-^*! J-ri^>i-J-l-J-4".|r^^i^ little below and behind the lateral; and 



there are two in front, in vertical line, 

 a little above the spiracle ; on 3 and 4 

 the three tubercles are nearly in vertical line, but from 5 to 12 they are in tri- 

 angle, the dorsal one in front, the sub-dorsal at rear, the lateral a little before 



