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its anterior margin darkest, inclined towards the anal angle, and 

 joined at an acute angle by a patch of the same hue about the 

 middle of sub-median nervure ; one or two wavy sub-terminal 

 brown lines, with an irregular chocolate brown band near the 

 hind margin, extending from the tip to about the middle of the 

 wing and thence to anal angle indistinctly ; a dull yellow patch 

 above anal angle, with blackish spots above it in sub-median 

 sulcus, and another about the middle of apical interspace, with an 

 angular, narrow, bluish line at the tip. Posterior wings dull 

 yellow, with the costa and outer portion from near the middle, 

 chocolate brown, and one or two short bluish lines above the tip 

 and a dull yellow spot upon it ; ocellus black, with a large pale 

 blue pupil. 



Mature Larva. From Abbot & Smith's figure ; head bluish 

 green, with a bright yellow line on the sides. Body bluish green 

 with a row of sub-dorsal and stigmatal reddish brown spots ; six 

 oblique lateral bright yellow bands, with two thoracic sub-dorsal 

 yellow (?) lines; caudal horn yellow on the sides. 



Pupation. The larva enters the earth to transform. In the 

 Southern States the first brood enters the pupa state about the 

 middle of June, and becomes imago early in July; pupation begins 

 with the second during the latter part of October, and they appear 

 as perfect insects during the following spring. The pupa is smooth, 

 abdomen cylindrico-conical and acute ; color deep brown. (Abbot 

 fy Smith.) 



Food-plants. The leaves of the wild cherry. 



Clemens. 



■(■■(" Fore wings denticulated on hind margin, with a denticulation 

 opposite disco-central nearly obsolete. ' 



2. S. excsecatus Abbot Sf Smith. Figured in Sm. Abb. I, pi. 25. 



Palpi, head and thorax fawn-color, with a roseate tinge, with a 

 chestnut-colored thoracic dorsal stripe tapering to the head and 

 metathoracic transverse patch of the same hue. Abdomen fawn- 

 color with a dark brown dorsal line. Anterior wings fawn-color, 

 with dark brown shades, with a small blackish spot at the middle 

 of base and two brown lines crossing the basal portion of the disk; 

 a large, median, brown patch, with its anterior margin darkest and 

 inclined towards the inner angle, and the posterior margin concave 

 in the middle, tinged with purplish towards the centre, containing 



