PLATE If. 
Paritio Astinous. Drury, vol. 1, tab. 44, fig. 
1. 4. 
P. Astinous. Cramer, Ins. tab. 208, fig. A. B. 
P. Puiwenor of Fabricius, and of Smith and 
Abbot’s Insects of Georgia. 
Head black; eyes red-brown, posterior orbits 
yellow ; palpi yellowish before, a white dot behind 
the base of each of the antenne; neck with two 
dots before, and a band of four dots behind. 
Thorax black, immaculate: breast dotted with 
yellow : feet black, anterior trochanters with an ob- 
long yellow dot: superior wings dark green, some- 
times blackish, with whitish crenz; four or five white 
spots near the margin, more conspicuous beneath, 
often obsolete above: inferior wings highly polish- 
ed, green; six pearl white spots before the mar- 
gin; crene white: beneath with a yellow spot at 
base, brownish, with a very broad polished green 
border, upon which are seven large fulvous spots, 
each surrounded by a black ring, and marked by a 
lateral white spot; on the inner edge of the border 
about six small white dots. 
Abdomen green, a little brassy above: a lateral 
double row of whitish dots, first segment with a 
single larger spot conspicuous above. 
