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ered from the effects of the cyanide and are as lively as crickets. 

 In nine cases out of ten you will find that the females will de- 

 posit fertile eggs. The eggs should be placed in cardboard 

 boxes until they hatch ; by no means place them in glass or 

 metal boxes, as they are apt to mildew. The larvae seem to 

 feed more readily on the coarser specie^ of grasses ; this is 

 particularly true after they have passed the second moult. I 

 have left out several interesting facts concerning the breed- 



ing of Pamf^ Juki, as I do not wish to consume too much of 

 the valuable space of the NEWS. 



1. Pamphila massasoit. 



Two females of this species captured on the fifth of July, 

 deposited eggs on the seventh of July. The eggs are nearly 

 round ; the base is slightly flattened ; color of egg, opake 

 white. The eggs hatched on July eighteenth. When first 

 hatched the larvae are of a dirty yellow color, and rather slen- 

 der; body sparsely covered with long yellow hairs. Head 

 nearly smooth, and of a light chestnut color. First moult oc- 

 curred on July twenty-eight. The larvae are now of an olive 

 green color, otherwise same as when first hatched. This spe- 

 cies has been reported as being double brooded in New England, 

 but in the vicinity of Philadelphia I think we have but one 

 brood. I have never seen the butterfly on the wing before the 

 fifteenth of June, or later than the fifteenth of July. It is very 

 common in southern New Jersey about the fourth of July, and 

 at that time the butterfly can be found on the flowers of the 

 button-ball bush, as well as on the flowers of the cranberry and 

 the flag. 



2. Pamphila zabulon. 



A female of this species was confined in a cage on May the 

 twenty-fourth, and the next day several eggs were laid. The 

 egg is of a pale green color and somewhat broader than high : 

 the egg is covered with numerous fine depressions, and the 

 apex is slightly flattened. The eggs hatched on the eighth of 

 June. When first hatched the larvae are of an opake white 

 color, but this changes to a dark green twenty-four hours after 



