( (510 ) 



d . Sexual organs not essentially different from those of clarldar, only the 

 tooth of the penis-sheath is shorter and the harpe less distinct. 



Larva green, beiUitifuUy marked with red ; a dorso-lateral, interrupted, broad 

 line, oblique side-bauds (dorso-froutal — ventro-distalj, a series of ventro-lateral 

 elongate spots, a ventral mesial series of minute spots and the abdominal legs, red ; 

 a dorsal mesial row of dots and another above the red lateral markiugs, black; horn 

 black, jiointed. — Food-jilant : (juura biennis. 



llah. Southern jiart of Atlantic district of Nearctic liegion : Georgia to Texas. 



Edwards, considering the following species to be the true yuarac, described a 

 specimen of the present sjiecies as circac. 



In the Tring Museum 3 larvae, 3 pupae, 3 c?c?, 2 ¥ ? from Texas. 



uol. Proserpinus juanita. 



Prosefjiinim (janrae, Clemens {mm Abbot c<: Smith, 1797), Jiiurit. Ac. N. .Sr. Philiul. iv. p. 1.S3. n. 9 

 (1H59) (partim ; Texas, iv., vii.) ; Morris, Cal. Lep. N. Am. p. 18 (18G0) ; Clem., in Morris, 

 Sijn. Lep. N. Am. p. 153. n. 1 (18G2) ; Grote & Rob., Pruc. Eiit. Soc. Philml. v. p. 151. 177 

 (lH6;i) (Clem.'s (/fliirae not that of Abb. & Smith 'i) ; Grote, Bull. Buffalu N. Sc. iii. p. 221. 

 n. 21 (1877). 



Pleri}ijoii juaiiUa Strecker, Leji. Rhop. Hel. p. 112. f. 13, f. Ij ((J) (.1877) (Rio Grande) ; Kirby, 

 Oil. Lep. lid. i. p. fi40. n. 4 (1892). 



Proserpinus jmiuila, Butler, Traii". Zonl. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 03(5 (1877). 



Lepisesia ijaurue var. juauila, Grote, Cmuul. Ent. xviii. p. 131. sub u. 23 (IKSG); Smith, Tnms. 

 Amer. Eut. Sue. xv. p. 114 (1888) (two broods). 



(? ? . Differs from ijaurue in the forewing being purer olivaceous green, in the 

 hindwing being brighter orange and having a sharply marked black band ; iu 

 the basal area of the forewing below being for the greater part ferruginous-orange, 

 while the basal area of the hindwing is olive-green; in the i)ale olive-green (not 

 chestnut or cinnamon-rufous) underside of the abdomen, which is blacki.sh at the 

 base ; and in the forewing being marked below with a black stigma and having 

 no cinnamon-rufous costal apical i)ateh. 



$ . Sexual armature as iu gaume, but the tooth of the penis-sheath as long as 

 in cUirlnac. 



Larva red ; two whitish lateral lines, one above, the other below, the ujiper 

 crossed by oblique dorsal bands which encircle a large dorsal area on each segment ; 

 the dorso-lateral line and oblique markings vestigial on eleventh segment; stigmata 

 black ; horn obliterated as in pro.'<crjjiiia Mid jlacofanciata. — Food-plant: Gaum. 



Jlab. Texas ; Colorado ; Arizona. 



Two subspecies : 



a. r. juanita juanita. 

 Pleroyon Jiianiki, Strecker, I.e. 



Hah. Texas and Colorado. 



In the Tring JIusenm 4 larvae, 3 jmpae, \b 6 <$ , 2t) ? ? from : Texas, iii. iv. ; 

 Colorado, Arbotes, 15. vi. The Colorado is cJ a transition to the following subspecies. 



b. I', juanita oslari subsp. nov. 



S ? . The green aa well as the orange areas obviously paler than iu the 

 preceding ; the stigma of the forewing smaller above and quite indistinct below ; 

 fringe of forewing above more distinctly dotted. 



t/ab. Verde K., Arizona, June l!)u:^ (Oslar). 



in the Tring Museum 7 cJcf, 3 ? ? ; t>/jje : 6. 



