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spots ou verlux ot' head, tcguhi', patagia, and thorax black ; orange 

 spots on shoulders and patagia ; pectus spotted with black ; legs 

 striped and banded with bhick ; al)domen white, with sublateral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing white, with more or less broad 

 irregularly-waved orange bands between the series of black spots ; 

 a black point at base ; subbasal spots on costa and below cell; a 

 curved antemedial series of five spots, a medial series of six spots, 

 a series at end of cell of seven spots with three or four beyond the 

 cell ; a subterminal series of nine spots, two spots just before apex, 

 and a terminal series ; cilia chequei-ed with black except towards 

 tornus. Hind wing pink ; two black spots on medial part of costa, 

 two conjoined spots on discocellulars often present ; an apical black 

 patch with a ])iuk spot on it before apex, its inner edge irregular, 

 (iouneited with a black patch on middle of termen, and a smaller 

 spot on vein 1, the black markings all edged with white. Und<;r- 

 side of fore wing crimson, the costal area orange, the black spots 

 coalescing into bands towards costa and into an interrupted sub- 

 terminal band. 



Ab, 1. intermedia. Hind wing with the apical patch smaller 

 and interrupted, followed by a band on termen regularly narrowing 

 to vein 1 ; underside of fore wing with patches of white. 



Ab. 2. hyhrida. Hind wing with maculate black antemedial 

 band, spot at upper angle of cell, the apical patch very broad at costa, 

 the patch on middle of termen running up vein 2 nearly to the cell, 

 and the spot on inner area running up vein 1 to the antemedial 

 band. 



Ab. 3. termiualis. Hind wing with white replacing the pink ; 

 fore wing with the orange bands and black spots developed towards 

 costa and termen only. 



Bab. U.S.A., Atlantic States, types intermedia and hyhrida, 

 Texas, Zeller & Grote Colls., Alabama, Grote Coll., Florida, Grote 

 Coll. ; Mexico, Yucatan {Guunier), 1 J , 2 § , Godmau-ttalviu Coll. 

 Exj). 40 millim. 



Egg. Pack. Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. viii. p. 82 (1893). 



Hemispherical ; smooth under microscope, shining. 



Larva. Stage 1. Head large, dark chestnut-brown; body pale 

 greenish ; prothoracic plate large, with four seise in front and 

 behind ; tubercles chestnut-l)rown ; the dorsal tubercles on somites 

 2 and 'A with two hairs, the lateral warts with one : the dorsal 

 tubercles on somites 4-10 with one hair; somite 11 with two hairs 

 on dorsal tubercles, and one hair on the largest lateral one ; the 

 dorsal abdominal tubercles arranged in a trapezoid, the front two 

 largest ; h;iir dark brown. 



Adult. Head small, reddish-chestnut, smooth, shining; body 

 variegated with black, yellow, and white, the segments black above, 

 with two transverse series of cream-white angular s])ots ; the 

 sutures l)roadly marked witli buft', with a dusky patch on outer side ; 

 the ventral surface buff; the tubercles moderate, acutely conical, 

 eacli with a single thick spiuulate hair, the four dorsal tul)croles on 



