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rounded or pointed tubercles (Figs, g 2 , g s ), those at and near the top largest, 
nearly all red, but a few black both on front and side face; around the top 
of head and down the sides at back, a row of sharp spurs, some simple, some 
branching or forked (Fig. g), and one of these rises behind the process on ver¬ 
tex, and overtops it (Fig./ 6 ); color of the spurs red. (Figs./,/ 3 ,/ 4 .) 
At one day after fourth moult: length .85 inch; all the dark parts paler, the 
red changing to brown, and more or less mottled dark green ; the basal stripe and 
the tubercles on it pure white; the patch lighter, with a yellow tint; the beads 
changed from red to blue. 
At two days from fourth moult: length 1 inch ; the red parts now olive-brown. 
The larvae reach maturity at about three days from fourth moult. 
Mature Larva. — Length at rest 1.2 inch, greatest breadth, .26 inch; length 
in motion 1.5 inch. As described under fourth moult, but the dark parts are 
now olive-green, the beads blue; the dorsal patch either reddish-brown, or pink- 
white ; the anterior segments pale red-brown ; the stripe along the basal ridge 
broad, white, with a green tint; the head pale red. (Fig./ 2 .) 
At from 4 to 5 days from fourth moult, pupation takes place. 
Chrysalis. — Length 1.1 inch; head case sub-pyramidal; the vertices have 
each a low elevation, triangular; mesonotum high, rounded, with a thin low 
carina which rises to a blunt apex, sloping either way about equally ; wing cases 
much elevated above the surface on the dorsal and posterior sides, the middle 
being incurved; on middle of dorsum rises a process, broad at base but rapidly 
narrowing to a sharp edge, rounded at top, not quite circular, the anterior part 
having a more rapid curve than the other; the space between the base of this 
and the wing cases corrugated ; abdomen sub-cylindrical, a little compressed lat¬ 
erally, rising to a low medio-dorsal ridge; color of anterior parts, head and me¬ 
sonotum brown ; the dorsal side of head case imperfectly silvered; wing cases 
deeper brown, the raised ridges blackish ; the dorsal process same color as the 
wings; at base on either side is an oblique black bar which crosses three seg¬ 
ments, and the space between these and the wing cases is silvered on a whitish 
ground ; abdomen buff, mottled with gray-green or olive-green, on ventral side 
quite uniformly, but on the rest the dark shades are faint and do not much dis¬ 
color the light; the last segments dark, like head. (Fig. k.) Duration of this 
stage 8 days. 
The only examples which I have seen of this fine butterfly have been sent me 
by Dr. William Wittfeld, who has taken it in considerable numbers, at Indian 
River, Florida, during 1880 and subsequent years. But I learn from Mr. T. L. 
Mead, now of Lake Eustis, Orange Co., Florida, that he has seen Eros both there 
and in North Florida. At Indian River, it is the only red Limenitis flying. Dr. 
