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Legs orange-red, the front pair brighter, the claws infuscated. Pro- 

 legs greenish, all but the anal pair marked externally with transverse 

 bands of pale orange. Length, 37 mm. ; breadth of body, 6.25 mm. ; 

 of head, 5 mm. ; collar, 2.25 mm." (Scudder). 



"The chrysalis is .76 inch long, the head case blunt conical; the 

 dorsum from near the head nearly straight ; the ventral side strongly 

 ventricose, tapering abruptly from the end of the ring cases to the 

 tip of the abdomen, the cremaster a somewhat triangular piece, .06 of 

 an inch long. Color reddish-brown, finely mottled and spotted with 

 dark brown, the end of the humerus blackish-brown, with two smaller 

 spots between them. Stigmata and eyes darker than the general 

 color" (French). 



Habitat. — Br. Am. ; Ont. ; Queb. ; United States generally ; 

 Mexico; Antilles ; Sth. Am. ; Nashville, Tenn., July 7th to 

 July 27th ; Miami, Fla., January. 



Eiidanms (Eparg-yreus) zestos Hub., Zutr. Ex. Schmett., figs. 



615, 616, 1832. 

 Obero7i Worth., Papilio, 1, 132, 1881. 

 Tityrus var. zestos, Aaron, Papilio, 4, 26, 1884. 



"Expanse of wings from 2.2 to 2.4 inches. Upper surface dark 

 brown, with a slight bronze reflection, marked almost like the upper 

 surface of E. tityrus. There is a yellow band from near the middle of 

 the costa back towards the posterior angle, ending in a blunt point 

 about the middle of the medio-submedian interspace, the point below 

 the lower .median fork being about twice as large as in E. tityrus. 

 The inner edge of the band above the median fork is nearly straight, 

 being notched a little at the subcostal vein, but is a little more oblique 

 than in E. tityrus. The outer edge is more irregular, the spot in the 

 cell and the one in the lower median interspace being concave, and 

 there are notches at the median and subcostal veins. The spot out- 

 side the band in the first median interspace is nearly square. Beyond 

 the band is the usual anteapical line of three spots, extending obli- 

 quely outward in a curve. Underside of about the same general color 

 as the upper, the fore wings with the marking of the upper surface. 

 The hind wings have a faintly indicated median band of a slightly 

 paler color than the rest of the wing, not reaching either margin, and 

 two faint spots between this and the anal angle, and more or less scat- 

 tering tawny scales. Both wings below have a strong purplish reflec- 

 tion, the outer margin slightly paler. Fringes concolorous with the 

 wings, the hind wings paler, but without brown at the ends of the 

 veins. Body above .purple brown ; thorax covered with tawny hairs, 

 beneath more or less shaded fulvous ; palpi fulvous. Club of antenna; 

 brown above, fulvous below and at sides. This species strongly re- 

 sembles tityrus above, but the yellow spots are less confluent and more 



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