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and the third in a line with two or three small ferruginous spots, 

 more or less distinct. The anal palette is black, and near the 

 fringe there is a small white marginal line. 



Larva, which feeds on Smilax, is green, with the head and feet 

 blackish. It has four rows of red spots, of which the two dorsal 

 are formed of smaller spots, and one on each side composed of 

 spots somewhat larger. 



Chrysalis grayish-brown, with the abdomen more clear and 



reddish. 



BOISD. 



12. T. sylvinus Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 287. 



Upper side brownish-black in both sexes, with a stigma on the 

 primaries of the male, and one or two fulvous spots near the anal 

 angle of the secondaries of the female. 



Under side pale ashy, with a small discoidal spot on each wing, 

 and two sinuous striae of points of the same color towards the 

 extremity ; the anal angle of the secondaries with a space of bluish 

 ashy, preceded before the tail by a yellow lunule supported by a 

 black point. 



California, 



BOISD. 



13. T. auretoram Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 287. 



Upper side blackish-brown, with a stigma on the primaries and 

 two obsolete fulvous spots towards the anal angle of the seconda- 

 ries. Under side brown, with two wavy rays on the secondaries, 

 blackish, indistinct, of which the posterior is nearly marginal and 

 supported in two small fulvous crescents ; edge of the anal angle 

 black. 



California. 



BOISD. 



14. T. saepium Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me se>. X, 287. 



Upper side reddish-brown, without spots, in both sexes ; the 

 male with a stigma on the primaries. Under side brown, a little 

 more pale towards the extremity, traversed a little beyond the 

 middle by a small white line, wavy, and near the extremity by a 

 line more obscure, obsolete, equally sinuous, blending towards the 

 anal angle of the secondaries into a grayish-blue space preceded 

 by a small black crescent. 



California. 



BOISD. 



