November, 1902] 



PSYCHE. 



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appendages, but the abdomen is longitudi- 

 nallj streaked with the lighter color and the 

 prominences of the thorax marked with the 

 darker. Length — mm. — Southern Florida 

 antl Texas antl soiitlnvard. 



Colaenis delila Fabr. (Pap. cilltne Cram.). 

 Butterfly : [mifinislied]. 



Agraulis Boisduval. 



Butterfly : Palpi with .swollen second 

 joint, densely clothed and rather thickly 

 haired ; antennae much shorter than the 

 body with obtuse short subspatulate 

 club. Fore wings not more than twice 

 as long as broad with bluntly angulate 

 tip, the cell less than half the length of 

 the wing; cell of hind wing open. Fore 

 tarsus of $ nearly as long as tibia ; 

 paronychia and pulvilli absent. Egg : 

 Subconoidal, tapering distinctly from 

 near the base upward, the lateral cells 

 twice as broad as high. Laid singly. 

 CaterpiUar at birth : All the tubercles 

 supporting the longest appendages ele- 

 vated conical and one to a segment in 

 each row ; of which there are three on 

 each side besides a supralateral series 

 with appendages not more than a tenth 

 as long as the others. Mature cater- 

 pillar: Head crown- 1 with a pair of 

 stout scarcely tapering' recurved spines. 

 Each side of body with three rows of 

 rather slender, scantily .bristled spines, 

 those of the upper row equal and a little 

 longer than the segments. Chrysalis : 

 Frontal tubercles not elongate, a little 

 divergent, compressed laminate, the edge 

 verrucose ; joints of antennae with slight 

 but unarmed tubercles; third abdominal 

 segment with a latcrodorsal flange like 



but smaller than that of Colaenis, the 

 laterodorsal prominences on the suc- 

 ceeding segments conical and not pro- 

 nounced. 



Agraulis passiflorae Fabr. {Piif. vanillac 

 L. ,/?/(>«(■ ;v/;//y/rtf lliibn.). Btitlcrjly: Wings 

 brilliant orange-red above, the fore wings 

 with black veins thickened apically and si.x 

 or seven small roundish black spots, those in 

 the cell white-pupilled ; hind wings with 

 three black discal spots and a snbmarginal 

 row of interspacial round orange-red spots 

 set in a black border of the wing. Beneath, 

 the hind wings and apex of fore wing are 

 cinnainon-brown heavily blotched with great 

 elongate dashes of black-edged nacreous sil. 

 ver spots, of which one in the upper subcostal 

 interspace of hind wings is deeply notched, 

 Scales of stink-pad bristle-shaped, arcuate, 

 deeply 2-4 cleft. Expanse 75 mm. Egg: 

 Yellow, broadly truncated at base, rounded 

 at summit, with full sides having fourteen 

 vertical ribs and few transversals ; height 

 1.35 mm. Caterpillar at birth : Head brown 

 without spines. Body glossy brownish 

 orange, the hairs and tubercles black. 

 Length 3.5 mm. Mature raierpill-ar : Wead 

 black with vertical orange stripes and black 

 coronal spines. Body glos.sy red-orange, 

 longitudinally striped with black and some- 

 times an infrastigmatal gray or white stripe ; 

 spines piceous. Length 37 mm. Feeds on 

 Passitlora and not, as Madame jMerian assert- 

 ed, on Vanilla — whence the incorrect name 

 given by Linne. Chrysalis: Very variable 

 in coloration, from buff with greenish mark- 

 ings to black mottled with lighter or darker 

 tints, but in all appear two pink spots at the 

 base of the head, a buff suprastigmatal stripe, 

 and a black sinuate linear depression repre- 

 senting the apex of the cell of the fore wings. 

 Length 30 mm. — Southern portions of the 

 United States and southward (rarely in West 

 \'irginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey). 

 At least 2-brooded. 



