192 LEPIDOPTERA. 



tion of a band of two or three still fainter on apical area. Secondaries 

 have a small round black spot on disc and a row of five or six of the 

 same color, and a varying size parallel to the outer margin. 



" Beneath the ground color is much duller in tone and more clouded. 

 Honey-yellow spots, of the primaries above, reproduced ; black points 

 wanting. Secondaries without the broad area of black-brown on cos- 

 tal margin ; the spots of the upperside are replaced with spots of a 

 lighter color than the ground encircled with brown fuscous. The 

 row of spots parallel to the outer margin is made to continue in its 

 submarginal course by the addition of two spots placed parallel to the 

 costal margin. Beneath the discal spot and towards the abdominal 

 margin there is another somewhat smaller. 



Body and thorax above and below concolorous with the wings ; head 

 above the same, below much brighter. Antenna annulated with 

 black and the general color, brighter at base of tip, then black, and 

 finally ending in a long tapering tip of the general color." 



Habitat. — Texas ; Mexico ; Central America ; Brazil. 



Eudamus (Eparg-yreus) tityrus Fabr., Syst. Ent., 532, 1875. 



Wings somewhat tailed, brown ; the anterior with a yellow band on 

 each side, the posterior snowy beneath. Antennae black, hooked. 

 Anterior wings uniform brownish, with a short band and another spot, 

 apices yellow ; posterior somewhat tailed, spotless above, beneath with 

 a broad, very white band. The brown Carolinan Papilio marked with 

 pellucid golden, whitish beneath. 



Food plants. — Amorpha frtiticosa, Robinia psacdacacia, R. 

 vicosa, R. hispida, R. neomexicana, Wistaria friitescens, Lespe- 

 deza capitata, Lathyrus paluster, Apios tiiberosa, Desmodiiim 

 inarylandicum , Desinodi^im nudiflorwn, Aniphicarpaea monoica, 

 Desniodiiim canadense. 



" Last stage of caterpillar. — Head dark brownish red, delicately 

 scabrous and clothed with short pile ; between the ocelli and the 

 labrum a large, roundish, bright orange spot. Body greenish yellow 

 marked with transverse lines, blotches and dots of grassy green ; the 

 lines encircling the body above, the blotches being abundant on the 

 sides and the dots forming a transverse row on the outer anterior edge 

 of each segment. Collar just behind the head, dark brownish red ; 

 first thoracic segment orange-red ; the shield browner and its hinder 

 edge delicately infuscated ; last segment greenish, rimmed posteriorly 

 with yellow ; beneath dark green dotted with yellow excepting the first 

 segment which is red. The body is densely covered with exceedingly 

 short, fine hairs. Spiracles velvety black, bordered with pale green; 

 second and third thoracic segments, but especially the former, marked 

 with black in the place where the spiracles would be if there were any. 



