62 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Larva blackish, pointed with white ; lower side of abdomen 

 and feet fulvous. It has two lateral white lines, of which the 

 upper is marked with a row of fulvous spots. Spines blackish. 



Chrysalis like those of P. cardui and P. huntera, but blackish, 



varied with whitish, without any metallic spots. 



Southern United States. 



Boisd. 



ANARTIA Dodbleday. 

 Head rather small, scaly ; eyes round, a little prominent ; pro- 

 boscis twice the length of the body ; labial palpi scaly ; antennae 

 nearly as long as the body ; club short, compressed, pointed ; 

 thorax oval, rather robust; primaries subtriangular, rounded at 

 the summit ; external edge a little emarginated towards the mid- 

 dle ; internal edge slightly emarginate, external edge of seconda- 

 ries sinuous, dentate, and forming a tooth at the end of the third 

 median ncrvure ; internal edge emarginate before the anal angle ; 

 feet of the first pair of the male scaly, femurs scarcely more robust 

 than the tibioe ; tarsi subcylindrical, thin ; those of the female 

 scaty, more robust, femurs nearly cylindrical ;• tarsi of five joints 

 nearly as long as the tibioe ; feet of the second and third pairs 

 rather elongate ; abdomen thin, rather short. 



1. A. jatrophae Linn. Syst. Nat. II, 779. Figured in Cram. pap. pi. 

 202. Herbst, tab. 172. 



Upper side with a more or less livid tint, with brownish, trans- 

 verse, undulated lines, and three black, ocellate spots, of which 

 one is on the primaries towards the internal angle, and the other 

 two on the secondaries. Some specimens have the extremity of 

 the wings russety, and the line which divides it forms parallel to 

 the edge, a double row of lunules of this color. 



Under side paler, and the ocellate spots have a small whitish 



pupil. Antennce, black, with the club ferruginous. Body dark 



above, whitish below. 



Texas — Brazil. 



Godt. 



