188 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Eudaiims (AclialaiUMis) lyciclas Sm.-Abb., Ins. Ga., pi. 20, 

 1797; Bdl.-Lec, Lep. Am. Sept., t., 71, 1833; Scud., Butt. 

 East., U. S. and Can., 2, 1418, pi. 9, fig. 11. 



" Expanse of wings from 1.9 to 2 inches. Upper surface dark brown, 

 slightly yellow tinted, with a purple reflection along the costa. The 

 fore wings are crossed from near the middle of the costa in a direction 

 towards the posterior angle by a yellow band of spots, consisting of 

 the same spots as are found in E. bathyllus. The spot in the cell and 

 the one in the second median interspace are greatly enlarged, so as to 

 be nearly or quite quadrate ; the others also are enlarged, but not to 

 the same extent. Beyond this band there is the usual ante-apical row 

 of four spots, the fourth a little out of line, and, not in line with the 

 others, a small triangluar spot above the base of the first median 

 nervule. Hind wings without spots. Fringes of fore wings dark 

 brownish gray, cut with black at the ends of the veins ; those of the 

 hind wings with the pale part paler ; those of the inner margin black ; 

 a black line edging both wings, and shading in a little on the hind 

 wings. Underside of fore wings brown, blackish inside the mesial 

 band, grayish along the hind margin, the apex shaded with black and 

 having a few whitish scales. The spots of the mesial are more con- 

 fluent than above, the others less distinct. 



" Hind wings with the base dark, slightly grayish ; through the mid- 

 dle an irregular broad black band, not reaching either margin, and 

 having a large patch of brown in it at the end of the cell, the black 

 sprinkled with gray scales. Outside of this to the margin of the wing 

 it is pure white through the middle half; the apical portion, the anal 

 portion and along the margin white more of less tinged with brown ; 

 the whole crossed by abbreviated brown streaks. Body black, the 

 underside of head and palpi slightly sprinkled with gray." 



Food plants. — Desviodhmt dillenii ; D. panictilahim ; htdigo, 

 Indigofera ; Ipomcea pandurata. 



^'Caterpillar. — Last stage. Head black, uniform, not heavily sca- 

 brous, the rugosities having a tendency on the front to form lines con- 

 verging on the mandibles ; the denticles of posterior summit curved 

 forward. Hairs uniform, short, fulvous ; all mouth parts black. 



" Body dark green with a bluish green, moderately broad dorsal line, 

 the body heavily besprinkled with yellowish orange dots on and sur- 

 rounding the papillae, giving it a somewhat rusty appearance; these 

 become more orange in a narrow lateral stripe, but not in the broader 

 and vague infrastigmatal stripe ; besides, the body between the brighter 

 dots is frequently pointed in black specks, generally clustered in lines 

 or small spots ; on the last three segments the rust color is more marked ; 

 the thoracic shield is black brown, smooth, slightly shining, with short, 

 black, non-tapering hairs, the front edge of the segment pale blood 

 red. Hairs of body pellucid ; spiracles black with a slender, inconspi- 



