68 . . THE LEPIDOPTERIST 



where it again narrows to the caudal shield. Sub- 

 dorsal line is a broad band of heavier black spots. 

 Lateral line, three rows of fine dots, the outer two 

 black and center one brown. Spiracular line a broad 

 band of very heavy black spots. Spiracles on lower 

 edge and black. Between each of these rows there 

 is a single row of faint brown dots running through 

 the center of white stripes. The black spots on the 

 second segment are large and arranged very irregu- 

 larly making that segment appear much darker than 

 any of the others. Below the spiracular line there 

 is a broad band of the white body color with a line of 

 brown spots through the center. This band is a dis- 

 tinctive feature. Below this is a band of fine black 

 dots just above the legs. True legs white with black 

 markings. Prolegs and caudal shield white with black 

 spots. Tubercles orange with a fine short hair spring- 

 ing from each. Ventral surface white, entirely 

 covered with small black dots. A large black spot 

 on each segment. The four on the segments between 

 the prolegs large and very black. All others longer 

 than wile and all are connected by a heavy line of 

 fine black dots. 



Pupa slender, 7-8 in. long, deep purplish brown and 

 covered with a rather heavy white bloom. 



On June 16th we beat a few plants of Amorpha 

 fruticosa and got 6 larvse ranging in size from one 

 fourth to one and a quarter inch long. A few days 

 later we beat another clump of the same plant and 

 got 7 more larvae. These varied some. Eight were 

 like the ones reared from the eggs and were undoubt- 

 edly nuptialis. One differed only in having the mark- 

 ings more pronounced and another with the markings 

 less pronounced than the one described. 



There were three others that were surely a dififerent 

 species. They were from three fourths to one and a 

 quarter inches long and had the bands on the body 

 arranged in the same way as nuptialis described, but 

 the spots and dots were larger and very black and did 

 not have the line of brown spots running through the 

 white spaces between bands. There was no brown 



