Characters of the Species. 



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and, finally, a narrower shade on the posterior lobe, dilating pos- 

 terior^ a*ad also with a black medial line along the carina. The 

 abdomen is pale, inclining to yellow, beneath ; more or less bluish, 

 or lilaceous above and marked with black especially toward base : 

 it also shows more or less distinctly the pale lines and mottlings 

 mentioned further on in the description of the pupa in which 

 they are more distinct. These are in a general way, two pale 

 longitudinal lines, diminishing anally, one subdorsal with an 

 inferior coincident spot on each joint ; the other stigmatal, twice as 

 broad, with an oblique dark mark dividing each joint, besides other 

 smaller and less distinct spots and mottlings. In the male the anal 

 parts are pale. The front wings, when closed, present a ground 

 color of pale grayish-yellow, inclining to olivaceous : they are gen- 

 erally yellowish at base and the inner or dorsal surface is more or 

 less ferruginous: there is a characteristic whitish-yellow medial 

 shade along the basal half, rendering more conspicuous the larger 

 spots of which there are about a dozen, irregularly arranged, some 

 of the middle ones being usually confluent: when open, the wing is 

 seen to be pellucid toward tip; more opaque basally owing to the 

 increase of the reticulate veins, which are brown-black toward tip 

 and yellow outwardly, whitish-yellow medially, and ferruginous 

 inwardly, toward base : the small spots are brown, the larger black. 

 The hind wings, except a yellowish or brownish shade at apex and 

 along front edge, and a greenish tint at base, are transparent and 

 colorless, with the larger veins on the outside brown-black, and the 

 inner ones pale. The front and middle legs are yellowish, inclining 

 to red, the middle thighs with slight dusky shades outside and at 

 tip. The hind legs have the thighs striped with pale glaucous and 

 reddish on the outside and upper half of inside and four black or 

 dusky marks on the upper edge, especially inside, the basal smallest 

 and the terminal one largest and extending beneath around the 

 knee; the inferior groove- is generally yellowish and the transverse 

 v-shaped and two longitudinal ridges on the outside, are whitish- 

 yellow: the shanks are coral-red with black spines; the feet some- 

 what paler, with black claws. The antennae are pale yellow, or 

 brownish, tipped with pale annuli; generally darkest toward tip. 

 The eyes are dark olivaceous, and the ocelli (one at anterior front 

 of each eye, and one in the sulcate depression of frontal costa) 

 brown, with a black and a white border. 



Besides the black on wings and legs already mentioned, there 



