8 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Under side of primaries much paler ; on the base, a lare, radi- 

 ated yellow spot, which fills the discoidal cellule and eight marginal 

 spots. 



Under side of secondaries, yellow, divided by six or seven blue 

 lunules, three or four of which are associated with as many ferrugi- 

 nous spots. The anal spot corresponds with that of the opposite 

 side. Expands five inches. 



Body yellow; back black; thorax, black above, with two yellow 

 lines. Southern States. 



Larva brownish below, back covered with large, whitish 

 blotches, irregular, spotted with brown, 



Chrysalis brown, marked with blackish points. Feeds on the 

 orange tree. 



BOISD. 



11. P. ajax Sm. Abb. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 1. Sm. Abb. I, pi. 4. Pal. de 

 Beauv. IV, pi. 2. 



Upper side of the wings, blackish brown, with bands, whitish 

 yellow ; the first, which is at the base of the primaries, is very small ; 

 the second is wide and descends beyond the middle of the secon- 

 daries ; the third is only a whitish line ; the fourth is wide, bifid 

 above, and descends on the disk of the secondaries ; the fifth and 

 sixth are short and of unequal length ; the seventh is marginal and 

 interrupted. 



The secondaries have fewer whitish lunules, two other bluish lu- 

 nules, and at the anal angle a bilobed red spot, resting on a black 

 crescent, which is cut transversely by a blue line and surmounted 

 by a group of grayish atoms. Emarginations whitish. 



Tail black, linear, white at the extremity and on the sides. 



Under side paler, a narrow grayish baud on the internal side of 

 the marginal band of the primaries. 



Under side of secondaries differ considerably from the upper. 



The white marginal lunules are preceded by a black streak and 

 the blue lunules by an equal number of grayish crescents. A 

 slightly flexuous scarlet line, bordered with white, separates the 

 two whitish bands. The bilobed spot is surmounted with white. 

 Expands three inches. Southern States. 



Body blackish, with two whitish lines on the sides; antenna 

 brown, with the lower side of the club blackish. Its flight is low, 

 rapid, not sailing. 



