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found it abundant, and coquetting with the harebells. About 5 o'clock 

 they were settling for the night on the fructifying stems of grass. 



On 19th July, 1899, 1 a g am visited the same locality, and secured a pair 

 in coitu, which I boxed and took home to Montreal, and on the 23rd put 

 the female in a cage with Melilotus Alba, Desv., Vicia Cracca, L., and 

 Phryma Leptostachya, L., as Lupinus was not available. Before placing 

 her in the cage, she was fed with sweetened water, as she had had 

 nothing since her capture on the 19th, and she fed for three hours. She 

 was fed again twice, but on 30th was found to be dead, and the cage was 

 dismantled and a careful search made for eggs resulted in finding three on 

 the Phryma, one laid on the upper side of a leaf near the edge, one just 

 at the junction of a leaf-stalk with the main stalk, and the third on the 

 same leaf-stalk about y£ inch from the other. 



Scudder described the eggs as being pale green, the tracery of raised 

 network being frost-white upon it. but in my notes they are described as 

 white like porcelain. 



The winter was passed in the egg state, the box containing them 

 being kept in a cool cellar. On 28th April I observed that one of the 

 larvae had chipped the egg, and was trying to get out, but it did not seem 

 able to enlarge the hole sufficiently. About a week later it was still 

 alive, and was seen moving, but did not succeed in getting out. One 

 larva hatched all right, but the third egg showed no sign of life. I did 

 not, however, succeed in getting the one larva to feed. 



On 15th May I paid another visit to High Park to look for larva?, 

 and succeeded in finding about ten, some of which I sent to Dr. Fletcher. 

 They were in different stages, some nearly mature. Some were found on 

 the Lupines, and a few in curled-up dead leaves of trees lying under the 

 plants. The ants were running about the plants, which I knew indicated 

 the probable presence of these larvae, though at first I found them difficult 

 to find. 



These wild larvae had evidently hatched a good deal earlier than 

 mine, but that is easily understood, as the locality where they were found 

 is a bank sloping towards the south, the soil being very sandy, and re- 

 ceiving the full effect of the sun's rays, I was simply baked lying on the 

 ground to search for the larvse, so that any snow that fell would melt early in 

 the spring, and vegetation would start early, while our season in Montreal 

 would be probably a week or ten days later. 



