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black spot at base on each side, beneath and at sides spotted with 

 white. Anterior wings green, with two darker bands margined 

 with white, one of which crosses the disk, and meets an oblique one 

 on the inner margin. Posterior wings blue, with a black angu- 

 lated band edged interiorly with red, and' a sub-terminal black 

 band breaking into black lines toward interior angle on a reddish 

 ground ; terminal margin testaceous. 



S.America; Mexico; West Indies. 



CLEMENS. 



Eyes large. Fore wings nearly straight. 



5. P. vitis Linn. Merian, Ins. Surin. Philampelus hornbeckiana Harris, 

 p. 299, note. (?) Figured in Drury, I, pi. 28. Cram. pi. 267. Sm. 

 Abb. I, pi. 46. 



Head and thorax grayish tinged with greenish. Thorax with a 

 dorsal dark olive line, tegulse dark olive, edged with white. Abdo- 

 men dark olive, paler on the sides, with a pale dorsal line ; a blackish 

 patch on the sides at base, and a dark olive dorsal patch at the 

 base. Anterior wings deep olive, with a double whitish transverse 

 line toward the base, a pale buff-colored band (in faded specimens 

 white or whitish), extending from the base to the tip, crossed by 

 another of the same hue from the lower third of inner margin to 

 costa, beyond the origin of post-apical vein, and containing poste- 

 riorly a dark olive line ; the nervules of the median nerve pale 

 flesh color, or whitish, when faded ; discal spot double and black. 

 Posterior wings pale-green, pale-yellowish along the costa, with a 

 central black line terminating in a black patch, near the middle of 

 inner margin, and a sub-terminal black band tapering to interior 

 angle ; the inner margin rose-red, inclosing above the interior 

 angle a whitish spot ; terminal margin cinereous. 



Mature Larva. Head reddish, with -two black lines in front. 

 Body flesh color mixed with yellow, and with short, transverse black 

 lines. The lateral semi-oval bands are yellowish-white, edged with 

 black. Body beneath the stigmata? is greenish, with black lines 

 and stigmatal blackish dots on the three anterior segments ; lenti- 

 cular tubercle blackish with dorsal black lines. Abbot and Smith. 

 Pupation. According to Abbot and Smith, it enters the pupa 

 state August 14th, and appears as an imago September 7th. An- 

 other became a pupa September 29th, and appeared July 18th fol- 

 lowing. 



