“24 BUTTERFLIES. 
second, and the fourth or outer one, reaches only to the 
middle of the wing. The inner line on the hind-wings ex- 
tends nearly across, then bending, runs 
some way up the hinder margin, pre- 
ceded in the last part of its course by 
another nearly parallel to it. Above 
the termination of these two, there is 
acirclet of white on the margin. The 
outer line is short, and limited to the 
middle of the wing. The fore-wings 
have a sub-marginal row of indistinct 
brown lunulesedged on the inside with 
Fig. 25.—Thecla strigosa 
Hier white, and the hind-wings have a 
similar series, which are bright red 
towards the anal angle, and edged on the inner side with 
black followed by white, and enclosing next to the anal 
angle, a large black space which is nearly covered with blue 
scales. Beyond this is a small black spot, and there is 
another at the angle surmounted by a red stripe edged like 
the lunules, and extending up the margin. The lunules next 
the apex usually exhibit a few scales of red. The margins 
of both wings are edged with a fine whitish line. 
“Body fuscous, beneath grayish-white. Legs, white, 
annulated with brown. Palpi, white, the outer joint black 
tipped with white. Antenne annulated with black and 
white. Club, fuscous tipped with white.”’ 
The larva was taken by Mr. Saunders on a species of 
thorn (Crategus), and his description is as follows: 
“Length, half an inch. Head, greenish-brown. Body, flat- 
tened, sloping abruptly at the sides. Color, velvet-green, 
with a darker colored dorsal stripe. The anterior edge of 
second segment, yellowish-brown with a few darker dots; 
the middle segment laterally striped with two or three faint, 
yellow, oblique lines, and the last two segments have each 
a lateral yellow patch, and there is a faint, yellow basal 
line from the fifth to the terminal segments. Under surface, 
bluish-green. 
