GRAPTA IV. 
on costal margin and along the whole hind margin, except just over the tail, where 
the tint is lilaceous; the rest of the limb suffused with purple; commencing at the 
upper suh-costal neryule a deep ferruginous patch extends to median and is con- 
tinued in a broad, curved, posteriorly attenuated stripe to anal angle; crossing 
both wings is a row of black points, on secondaries lying within the ferruginous 
stripe, each haying a faint olivaceous halo; along the incision of primaries a series 
of metallic blue or green streaks or narrow lunules ; on secondaries these are large 
and distinctly lunular; discal mark on secondaries an interrupted C, usually 
silvered, but at times aureous; costal edge of primaries crossed to suh-costal 
nervure by ferruginous streaks and patches, between which the ground color is 
huff. 
Body above fulvous, covered on thorax with green hairs; beneath grey-ferru- 
ginous; legs huff; palpi huff, on upper side fulvous; antennae fuscous above, 
annulated below with buff; club fulvous tipped with huff. 
Female. — Expands 3 inches. 
Upper side similar to male; fringes similar. 
Under side brown suffused with blue-grey; the hind margin of primaries 
olive-brown ; on secondaries the sub-marginal stripe and patch but faintly indi- 
cated; the metallic spots less distinct than in male and more or less wanting; the 
common row of black points conspicuous. 
Egg .02 in diameter; smooth, spherical, flattened at top and slightly at base; 
from the centre of the base proceed ten narrow ribs, at first scarcely raised above 
the surface, increasing gradually in prominence as they ascend, and terminating 
abruptly and perpendicularly at the rim of the flattened top, marked on either 
side by transverse parallel grooves ; (see plate) . Color pale green. 
The larvae emerge from the egg in from three to four days. At first, they are 
one-tenth inch in length, translucent, greenish, covered with hairs ; the head large, 
bilobed, black. In a few hours they change to black. After first moult, (length 
.3 inch) which takes place in about two days, they are black, more or less specked 
with white, and begin to be clothed with short spines, all black except those on 
eighth and tenth segments, which are whitish. After another interval of two days 
the second moult takes place (length .4 inch), and the larvae begin to assume the 
type that they retain to maturity. The spines are in seven rows, one dorsal, two 
lateral on each side and one infra-stigmatal, fleshy at base, slender and many- 
branching at extremity; the dorsal and first lateral on third segment are black, 
on second, fourth and eleventh, russet, the rest yellow; the second laterals black 
throughout, the lowest row greenish; head bilobed, black, with short black spines 
at vertices. 
