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I did not think it so remarkable. The first brood of larv?e of this species 

 are usually so scattering that it is difficult to find them. This summer 

 they were so numerous as to completely strip large clumps of nettle, so 

 that numbers of larvae must have perished for want of food. Some 

 large and healthy bunches of nettle were so weakened by the larvae of 

 this species and of Vanessa Afilberti repeatedly stripping them of every 

 green leaf that they have probably died. 



L.\RVAL STAGES OF AMPHION NESSUS (Cr.). 



BY WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, NEW YORK. 



Egg. — Pale green, almost globular; very similar \.q \\\'x\. <:>{ Every x 

 myroji, but smaller. Young larvae collected at Greenwood Lake, New 

 Jersey, June 25th. Length, i mm. 



Stage I. — Pale apple-green, with numerous minute white dots and 

 a narrow white subdorsal stripe along each side, beginning at the 

 anterior part of the first segment and running to the base of the caudal 

 horn, which is black, and brown at the base. Length, g mm. Moulted 

 June 2Sth. 



Stage II. — Very much like the preceding stage, but the white 

 dots and the subdorsal stripe are much heavier and more distinct. 

 Caudal horn jet black, reddish-brown basally. Head with a narrow 

 white stripe on each side. Length, 13 mm. Moulted July ist. 



Stage III. — Much like the last stage, but the stripes on the head 

 are continuous with the ones on the subdorsum ; the third and fourth 

 segments are now considerably swollen and thicker than the remaining 

 segments. Caudal horn black, reddish-brown at the base. Spiracles 

 black. Length, 17 mm. Moulted July 4th. 



Stage IV. — Same as the last stage. Length, 22 mm. Moulted 

 July 7th. 



Stage F. — The general colour is now dirty orange-brown, speckled 

 with small smoky-black dots. On the junction of the segment along the 

 dorsum is a smoky-black spot, and along the sides is a series of oblique 

 smoky-black bands, the last one running to the base of the caudal horn, 

 which is black. From the head to the end of the third segment are three 

 black stripes, one on the dorsum and one on each side on the subdorsum. 

 Head dirty purplish-brown, with a whitish stripe on each side. Under 

 side darker than above. Length, 45 mm. Full-grown July 18. When 

 hilly fed the larva spins a rude cocoon between a itw leaves on the ground. 



Food-plants : Grape and Virginia creeper. 



