Underneath the fore-wings were yellow at the base, and lead colour
the remainder of their length. The veins had the orange-red
outlining, and the two large yellow dots at the costa showed
through as well as the small one beside them. Then came another
little yellow dot of the same size, that did not show on the upper
side, and then four larger round spots between each vein. Two of
them showed in the triangle on the upper side full size, and the
two between could be seen in the merest speck, if looked for very
closely.
The back wings underneath were yellow three-fourths of their
length, then next the abdomen began a quarter of an inch wide band
of orange-brown, that crossed the wing to the third vein from the
outer edge, and there shaded into lead colour, and covered the space
to the margin. The remainder of the wing below this band was a
lighter shade of yellow than above it. From tip to tip he measured
five and a half inches, and from head to point of abdomen a little
over two.
While I was talking Regalis, and delighted over finding so late in
the season the only one I lacked to complete my studies of every
important species, Arthur Fensler brought me a large Regalis
caterpillar, full fed, and in the last stages of the two days of
exercise that every caterpillar seems to take before going into
the pupa state.
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