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PSYCHE. 



[August, igo2 



than twenty vertical ribs nearly all reach- 

 ing the summit. Caterpillar at birth: 

 Ranged appendages simple tapering 

 hairs not half so long as segments ; a 

 pair of papilliform naked tubercles on 

 second thoracic and eigiith abdominal 

 segments. Mature caterpillar -. With a 

 pair of long fleshy filaments on the same 

 segments but not on second abdominal 

 segment. Chrysalis : Ocellar tubercles 

 slight and but little prominent ; semi- 

 circle of mammilate points on third ab- 

 dominal segment in a horizontal series 

 when pendant. 



2. Tasitia. Biitlerjly: Cell of fore 

 wings hardly more than one half, of the 

 hind wings less than three fifths, as long 

 as the wings. A series of white spots 

 in the middle of median interspaces 

 of fore wings. Egg'- Unknown. Cater- 

 pillar at birth: Unknown. Mature 

 ealerpillar : With a pair of long fleshy 

 filaments on the second thoracic and 

 second and eighth abdominal segments. 

 Chrysalis : Ocellar tubercles rather prom- 

 inent ; semicircle of mammilate points 

 on third abdominal segment in an 

 oblique series when pendant. 



Anosia Iliibner. 



Butterfly: I'alpi modeiately stout, 

 densely clothed with long hairs to the 

 tip ; club of antennae twice as stout as 

 stem. Discoidal cell relatively long, in 

 the fore wings nearly three fifths, in the 

 hind wings about two thirds as long as 

 the wing ; fore wings with produced apex 

 so that the wing is twice as long as 

 broad, the cell much longer above than 



below. Egg: Half as high again as 

 broad, or slightly less, rapidly tapering 

 to a rounded summit, with over twenty 

 not very prominent vertical ribs most of 

 which reach the summit, and numerous 

 straight and delicate transversals form- 

 ing quadrangular cells. Laid singly. 

 Caterpillar at birth : Subdorsal and 

 supralateral appendages anterior, lateral 

 and infrastigmatal posterior, and latero- 

 stigmatal median, none half as long as 

 segments ; on second thoracic and eighth 

 abdominal segments a pair of lateral 

 naked tubercles. Mature caterpillar : A 

 pair of long fleshy filaments on the 

 second thoracic and eighth abdominal 

 segments (but none on second abdomi- 

 nal), the hindmost but little longer than 

 the segment. Chrysalis : Stout and 

 rounded, the ocellar tubercles slight and 

 not very prominent, the semicircle of 

 raised points on third abdominal seg- 

 ment horizontal when pendant, (di'do-tos, 

 unholy, in reference to its color?) 



A. plexippus Linn. {Daiinis archipfus 

 Auct., Pap. crippiis Ciani.). Biitterjty : 

 Wings bright taw nj' brown, paler on tlie 

 under surface of tlie liind wings, tlie veins 

 all marlved witli blaclc and both coslal and 

 outer margins broadly bordered with black, 

 sprinkled with white dots ; besides the whole 

 apex of the fore wings is more or less deeply 

 black but enlivened bv two or three dull 

 tawny interspace-al subapical spots and by a 

 couple of parallel series of large white or 

 buff spots crossing the apex beyond the cell, 

 the outer only crossing tlie wing. Expanse 

 lOO mm. Egg: Pale amber green; vertical 

 ribs twenty-two in number, intervals smooth 

 and glistening. Height \.2 mm. Calcr- 

 pillar at birth : Head piceous. l!ody pale 



