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straight yellow band from base of abdomen 

 toward outer angle, striking (on under sur- 

 face) a couple of pale pink lunules on sub- 

 costal nervules ; and midway' to margin a 

 parallel maculate slender band cnrving up- 

 ward outwardly (and beneath enclosing tlie 

 pinkish lunules). A few dark carneous dots 

 at base of wings and on inner margin beneath. 

 Expanse 80 mm. Egg: Broadly truncated 

 at base, narrowly at summit with sides 

 scarcely convex except above and fourteeii 

 vertical ribs and few transversals; color yel- 

 low. Height 1.3 mm. Cciferpillar at birth : 

 Body uniform pale reddish brown, the liead 

 slightly paler, without appendages, the tuber- 

 cles a little darker, the hairs black. Length 

 2 mm. Mature caterpillar: Head greenish 

 white with a pair of frontal black spots and 

 long black coronal spines. Body dead white 

 distantly spotted witli black or brown, naked 

 but for the exceedingly long piceous spines. 

 Length 35 miu. Feeds on Passiflora. 

 C/oysalis : Brown in \'arious shades and 

 streaked Avith gray and blackish; pronotum 

 and dorsal surface of first three abdominal 

 segments each with a pair of large subdorsal 

 burnished gold spots; sides of abdomen with 

 a web of light colored strigae. Length 

 excluding frontal tubercles 24 mm. — South- 

 ernmost United States and southward (Beau- 

 fort, N. C, L. R. Gibbes). The male butter- 

 flies collect around the female chrysalis for 

 some time previous to eclosion. 



Colaenis Hiibner. 



Butterfly: Palpi slender, rather thinly 

 haired ; antennae nearly as long as the 

 body, with short pyriform ckib. Fore 

 wings more than twice as long as broad, 

 with rounded tip, the cell more than half 

 the length of the wing; cell of hind 

 wings open, anal angle angtilate. Fore 

 tarsus of $ not much shorter than tibia; 

 paronychia and pulvilli present. Egg'- 



Imperfectly known. Caterpillar at btrth. 

 Imperfectly known. Habits similar to 

 Basilarchia. Mature caterpillar: Head 

 with coronal tapering spines ; each side 

 of body with three rows of moderately 

 slender not very scantily bristled straight 

 spines, the uppermost about as long as 

 the segments in the middle of the body 

 but not longer at the ends. Chrysalis : 

 Frontal tubercles similar to Agraulis but 

 not apically verrucose ; third to seventh 

 abdominal segments with large subquad- 

 rate laterodorsal laminate flanges, the 

 anterior somewhat larger than the others. 



Colaenis julia Fabr. {Pap. alcio/iea Cram.). 

 Biittcrjly : Wings bright reddish fulvous 

 above, saffron-brown beneath, both wings 

 margined above with blackish brown in very 

 varying widths, broadest on fore wings at the 

 upper apex, on the hind wings in middle of 

 outer border ; fore wings with a strongly 

 oblique blackish stripe, broadest above, run- 

 ning from the subcostal vein across the apical 

 edge of the cell to the middle of the outer 

 margin. Beneath, at both extremities of the 

 outer margin of hind wings and outer angle 

 of fore wings one or two divided inconspicu- 

 ous gray-white spots. Expanse of wings 

 85. mm. Egg'- Yellow, laid in long rows. 

 Caterpillar at birth : Head dark. Body yel- 

 low-, alternate abdominal segments spotted 

 with white, the bristles black. Mature cater- 

 pillar : Head black with white sutures and 

 lateral stripes. Bodv dark brown trans- 

 versely and narrowly banded above with 

 lighter colors particularly on the thoracic 

 .segments; and on the sides broadly dashed 

 with still lighter colors in oblique inasses 

 pointed toward the spiracles ; spines dark but 

 often light at base. Length 38 mm. Feeds 

 on Passiflora. Chrysali.i: Dark brown and 

 pale yellowish brown, the former principally 

 on the abdomen, the latter on the thorax and 



