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below the cell ; a black mark in lower end of cell ; a subterminal 

 curved series of very irregukir spots, conjoined partly to the post- 

 medial series and largely to the terminal series of elongate spots. 

 Hind wing crimson, with black patches in cell and on inner area ; a 

 medial black band forking towards costaand dentate just beyond cell 

 and on vein 1; a subterminal band, dentate at vein o and below 

 vein 2; a terminal band with more or less dentate inner edge- 

 Underside of fore wing with the ground-colour of costal half crimson 

 to beyond middle. 



The extent of the maculate bands of fore wing and the black 

 bands of hind wing varies very much, the latter often having the 

 crimson very much reduced. 



Hah. Mexico, type incarnata, Jalapa {TrajiUo, Hoerje), 5 J , 6 $ , 

 Coatepcc (Brooks), 1 $ : Hondueas (Blancaneaux), 1 5 ; Gdaxejiala 

 (Rodrujuez), '^ (S , 1 2 , Godman-Salvin Coll. Krp., S 5-, ? 64 

 millim. 



Ecjrj. Dyar, Can. Ent. xxvi. p. 307 (1894). 



Spherical, flattened at base ; pearly iridescent ; diam -6 mm. ; 

 reticulations rounded, smaller towards apex ; their angles with a 

 series of short stiff spines. 



Lai'va. Stage 1, Head bilobed ; clypeus large ; shining blackish 

 ocelli black ; mouth brown; body whitish brown, milky on dorsum 

 warts small, black, with single hairs from i. and ii. on somites 4-11 

 the hairs pointed and minutely spinulose ; cervical shield, legs, and 

 outer side of prologs black. 



Stage 2. Hair more numerous, black, bristly ; body pale chocolate- 

 brown with darker subdorsal bands, and faint pale dorsal line. 



Stage 3, Body black-brown, with flesh-coloured dorsal line; 

 warts black ; hair more abundant at extremities, with a few long 

 white ones anteriorly ; slight white lines above warts iii. and iv. 



Stage 4. Dorsal area on somites 5-9 brick-red round wart i.; 

 lateral white lines obscure ; the subventral hair white. 



Stage 5. Head rather square ; body black with red dorsal line ; 

 hair black at extremities, foxy-red on medial somites, the long an- 

 terior and posterior hair and most of the sublateral hair nearly 

 white. 



Stage 6. Hair foxy-red mixed with Idack and a few long and 

 pale; spiracles small, white. 



Stage 7. Head reddish on vortex; body with the central lateral 

 warts brownish. 



Stage 8, Ijlack ; the warts brown : prologs dull crimson ; spiracles 

 reddish. 



Stage 9. Hair all black; body sooty-black; the warts pale brown ; 

 spiracles white ; head black ; labrum and antcnn;o pale. 



Cocoon transparent, double, of soft silk mixed with a few hairs; 

 imago emerged in July. 



