PAPHIA. 
PAPHIA GLYCERIUM. 1—6. 
Papliia Glycerium, , Doubleday, Gen. Diur. Lep. pi. 50. Riley. Am. Ent. Feb. 1870. 
Male. Expands 1.7 inch. 
Upper side copper red ; hind margins edged by a black border with grey or 
purple reflections ; on the arc of primaries a black band, a patch on costa of second- 
aries and a stripe near outer angle. Under side dead-leaf brown, with a grey 
lustre, tinted on inner margin of primaries with reddish, and throughout densely 
covered with dark scales ; the basal half of both wings deep-colored, limited with- 
out by a wavy edge ; beyond this, and reaching to the dark marginal border, a 
broad, wavy band of paler color, bifurcated on costal margin ; a small cluster of 
luteous scales in sub-costal interspace of secondaries and on middle of disk. 
Body above reddish brown, beneath color of wings ; legs buff ; palpi grey 
brown ; antennae black above, reddish below. 
Female. Expands 1.9 inch. 
Upper side pale red ; marginal border of primaries very broad, enclosing a 
yellow-red, wavy band, imperfectly bifurcated; on secondaries a similar band, 
contracted at outer angle, much expanded on disk and partly enclosed by a 
black stripe from outer angle ; under side vinous brown, with grey reflec- 
tions. 
The larva when young is light bluish green thickly covered with soiled white 
papillae. Scattered among these are light orange papillae of a larger size with oc- 
casionally one of brown. These papillae are hemispherical, hard, opaque and shin- 
ing, and the larva feels rough and harsh to the touch. At each moult some of the 
papillae disappear, especially all the brown ones, the green shade becomes more 
apparent and the skin softer. 
Mature larva ; length 1.55 inch ; cylindrical, tapering each way from third 
segment ; color light bluish green ; surface rough, covered with whitish papillae ; 
head sub-quadrate, bilobed, bluish green, a pair of orange papillae on vertex ; neck 
green, constricted, retracted within second segment when at rest ; spiracles brown- 
ish yellow. Chrysalis at first light green, soon changing to whitish green or to 
light cinerous brown ; the whole surface indistinctly marked with fine parallel 
streaks of darker color ; in form short, thick, gibbous, the abdominal segments 
contracted almost into a hemisphere. 
