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Three continued pupae only ten days, but this was during exceedingly hot 

 weather. The other two remained pupae just twelve days, the weather 

 being milder. It is worthy of remark that this butterfly, like many others, 

 came out between seven and ten o'clock A. M. 



Limenitis Ursula Fabr. [PI. iv, fig. 15.] 



Larva found feeding on leaves of shrub-oak, June 1; head tinged with 

 pale purple, two white stripes down the centre of the face, lip brownish; 

 vertex bifid, tuberculated, tubercles pale green. Body elongated, cylin- 

 di'ical, a pair of tubercles on each segment, those on the second being 

 much elongated, linear, with short, blunt spines ; first and second seg- 

 ments pale reddish yellow, tubercles dirty green ; third segment whitish 

 or reddish white, veined with pale green above, tubercles pale ; fourth 

 segment green above, tinged with ochreous, especially at sides ; fifth seg- 

 ment pale olive green above, darker at sides, tubercles whitish, tranverse 

 elevated line at side whitish, as it is in all the following segments ; sixth 

 segment olive green, with two longitudinal white lines above ; seventh 

 segment olive green at sides, reddish white or clay colored behind, and on 

 the top two white lines with a clay colored patch between, a small blackish 

 spot near the stigma ; eighth segment clay colored, slightly green at sides 

 behind ; ninth segment greenish at sides, with a small black spot, clay col- 

 ored above, before with two white lines; tenth and eleventh segments dark 

 olive green, tubercles paler ; twelfth segment dark green above, tubercles 

 four, ochreous. Feet ochreous; prolegs greenish bordered with ochreous. 

 Body beneath whitish varied with green. Length one and three tenths 

 inches. 



Pupa, June 7; suspended by tail vertically. Imago, June 18. 



June 1 7, found a young larva on an apple tree leaf, attached to a strong 

 web. It was not more than six tenths of an inch long, of a brown color 

 above, whitish beneath, with an oblong, triangular, whitish patch on the back 

 from seventh to tenth segments; two little blackish tubercles beset with very 

 short spines on the top of the second segment; the head of a paler brown 



