APATURA II. 
so expanded next inner angle of primaries as to occupy full half the width of the 
band. The female is duller colored, but as little obscured as the male. Prima¬ 
ries are crossed by a broad, sinuous, deep black discal band, which.in the usual 
Chjton is brown or ferruginous, and the bars in the cell are black and heavy. A 
broad, sub-marginal black stripe completely crosses both wings, the margin out¬ 
side this stripe being ferruginous concolored with the disk. The crenated line 
is absent from secondaries, even at the outer angle. 
I gno this form, therefore, as a possible variety of Clyton , but my opinion is 
that it will be found to breed true to itself, and, if so, it is a good species. Mr. 
Stadlmair found these butterflies in one locality, resting on the leaves of trees, 
and evidently just out of chrysalis, and saw numbers of them, as he says in a 
letter to his father. With them were many A. Alicia, of which he took several, 
and these I also saw. 
Egg. — Similar to that of Celtis ; nearly spherical, flattened at base; marked 
by about eighteen slightly prominent vertical ribs, and by many fine horizontal 
equi-distant striae; color yellowish-green. Duration of this stage eight to nine 
days. 
Iouxg Larva. —Length, .06 inch; cylindrical, somewhat tapering posteriorly, 
slightly pubescent; color pale green, translucent; head large, twice the diam¬ 
eter of the following segments, hemispherical, bi-lobed, brownish-yellow; the 
mandibles and ocelli brown. (Figs, c, c 2 , larva and head magnified.) 
The first moult takes place in seven days. Length, .125 inch; body tapering 
gradually either way from seventh segment; the second and last nearly equal in 
diameter, the latter terminating in a short, forked tail; the whole surface cov¬ 
ered with fine whitish tubercles, from each of which springs a white hair; striped 
longitudinally and alternately with pale and dark green, the tubercles covering 
the pale stripes densely; in all there are six pale stripes, two broad, dorsal, one 
upper and one lower lateral, both narrow; of the intermediate dark stripes one 
is a narrow medio-dorsal, the others lateral; legs and pro-legs pale green, fringed 
at base with short white bristles; head large, broader than the second segment, 
rounded, flattened, glossy, pale green, the forehead dusted with brown; the 
ocelli and mandibles brown ; at the vertices fleshy stag-horn processes, with 
short, stout prongs; other prongs below at the sides of the face; all these, and 
the surface of the face, somewhat pilose. (Fig. cl) 
To the second moult thirteen days. Length, .2 inch; the pale stripes now 
changed to yellow-green; the surface more roughly and unevenly tuberculated ; 
the dorsal bands, before distinctly separated, now meet, but there are traces of a 
green medio-dorsal line; the second segment projects over the head a narrow 
sub-triangular shield; the tails deeply forked; the horns shorter, pinkish, punc¬ 
tate ; the forehead and sutures and the mandibles brown. 
