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Chrysalis resembles that of Smilacis, but differs in having on 



each side a row of yellow ferruginous points. 



Southern States. — Expands an inch and a half. 



Boisd. 



24. T. poeas Hiibn. T. beon Godt. Figured in Boisd. et Lee. pi. 35, 



p. 109. 



Upper side blackish-brown, with the base of the primaries and 

 the extremity, or even the whole of the secondaries, pale blue. 

 Some specimens have the base of the primaries entirely blackish, 

 and sometimes even all the wings, without any traces of the blue. 

 The secondaries have tails, white at the summit. Some, which 

 have the extremity blue, have a row of small marginal, unequal 

 lunules, blackish-brown. 



Under side is russety gray. 



Southern States. 



Boisd. 



25. T. augustus Kirby. Faun. Bor. IV, 298. Figured in Kirby, Faun. 



Bor. Amer. IV, pi. 3. 



Antenna annulated with white ; knob elongated ; wings dusky 

 black, with a dull ferruginous disk ; fringe alternately white and 

 black ; secondaries underneath black at the base ; at the apex 

 dusky ash-colored, with a transverse series of about eight black 

 spots, rudiments of which appear on the lower surface of the 

 primaries. 



Canada. — Expands one inch. 



KlEBT. 



Fam. IX. ERYCINIDAE. 



' Larva very short, pubescent or hairy. Chrysalis short, 

 contracted. Perfect insect ; nearly constantly six feet in the 

 females and four in the male. Abdominal edge of the secon- 

 daries not prominent. Discoidal cellule sometimes open, 

 sometimes closed, and sometimes closed apparently by a 

 false nervure. Hooks of the tarsi extremely small. 



NYMPHIDIA Fab. Erycina Latr. 

 Head of the width of the thorax ; antennae long, annulate with 

 whitish, terminated by a small elongated club ; palpi short, 



