grapta III. 
manes, rounded, and both rows stand on gray ground; the silver mark an angular 
0, the upper limb stout and barbed. 
Body Mvous, coated with green hairs, beneath gray-vinous; the femora of 
middle and hind legs brown, the tibiae buff or luteous; the aborted levs <rray- 
vinous, black in front; palpi buff, with many brown hairs, in front black" an¬ 
tennae black above, ferruginous below; club black, the tip ferruginous 
Female. — Expands 2.1 inches. 
Upper side closely resembles the male in color and markings; the yellow snots 
o secondaries still larger; both hind margins edged by yellow 
Under side as in the male, the shades of basal and outer areas contrasting in 
similar manner; but the gray beyond disk.is more extended, darker, and all that 
partol the Wing is suffused with a delicate purple tint; the silver mark very 
slender, at most but a curved streak, representing the back of the C. 
Var A.— Female; the fulvous of upper side more fiery, the yellow spots 
small; beneath, both wings are of brown, of a nearly uniform shadef except that 
on the disks are darker patches ; the green spots tolerably distinct; the silver 
mark obsolescent. 1 ? 
Mature Larya. — Length 1.2 inches. 
Cylindrical, the segments well rounded; color orange-fulvous, except the dor¬ 
sal area of segments seven to twelve, which is white; the ends of the segments 
crossed by several stripes of black and fulvous, the latter very pale on seven to 
e V e ’ aI " lost f ? dm S mt0 wlute i th e sides mottled with fulvous, black and bluish 
white and marked by two irregular longitudinal fulvous lines, one below the 
spiracles, the other above, this last interrupted and not always distinct; furnished 
with seven rows ot long, slender, tapering, many-branching spines (the branches 
numbering about ten of nearly equal size, besides a few others much smaller), 
each branch ending in a sharp bristle, and surrounded by several others • the 
spines of the dorsal and first lateral rows from segments three to six, buff- from 
seven to twelve, white ; the second laterals smoky-brown, except on twelve and 
th ,i teen, where they are white; the lower laterals buff on three and four the 
lest white; a black crescent, concave downward, over the base of each spine of 
second lateral row; and a black dash on the anterior part of each segment, in 
iront of each of the spines of first lateral row, but nearly obsolete on the ante¬ 
rior segments ; spiracles black in white rings ; feet black ; forelegs smoky-brown • 
head sub-ovate, deeply cleft, the vertices high, and on each a cylindrical, horn-col’ 
1 The female last described is that to which I formerly ^ave the name t t . 
Beasonally-dimorpbic with Rusticus; but these two are the only examples I have rneHIth a tv* "’f 6 -” 6 
sh.p is but conjectural. The female was bred from the larva figured in Vo I R,” 40 F1 0 8 d ‘““i 
