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transverse edges and a subbasal transverse line on 
each segment fuscous ; venter also with a black 
line ; feet black ; thighs yellowish, with the spines 
black, and on the anterior pairs a line beneath. 
Length one inch and three-fifths. 
The quadrilineate abdomen, with the subacute 
proximate portion of the eyes distinguish this 
species , the abdominal lines are not dilated, but 
limited to the edge of the carinae. The frontal 
vesicle is greenish-yellow, with a dark transverse 
line at the antennae. 
13. L .lerenice. Frontal vesicle blue above; wings 
ferruginous at base. 
Inhabits U. S. 
L. lerenice. Drury’s Ins., Yol. I., pi. 48, fig. 3. 
Front whitish, steel-blue above; eyes obtuse 
above and connate; trunk brownish, with two 
greenish-yellow vittge before, and with three oblique 
broad and obvious yellow lines each side under the 
wings; between the wings varied with blackish; 
wings immaculate, or with a tinge of ferruginous at 
their origin, particularly of the posterior pair, and 
on the middle; anal membrane blackish; stigma 
rather large and blackish ; feet black ; coxae and 
tiochanters yellow; inferior side of the anterior 
thighs yellow ; abdomen with a dorsal black vitta, 
including the carina, and a lateral black vitta above 
the lateral carina ; lateral carina black ; these vittse 
are more and more widely confluent at the sutures, 
towards the tip of the abdomen, which is entirely 
black. 
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