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From eighteen larva) from eggs of Marcellus, deposited 2nd July, I obtain- 

 ed fourteen chrysalids, and from these four males, three females, Marcellus, 

 between 3lst July and 3rd August. One of these chrysalids gave female 

 Marcellus on 28th August, several weeks beyond its season, and six went 

 over the winter. 



From two larvas from eggs of Marcellus deposited late in August, one 

 yielded in September female Marcellus, the other in chrysalis went over the 

 winter. 



All these that wintered are alive at the date of this writing. 



Mr. T. L. Mead, who spent the summer at Coalburgh, raised a large num- 

 ber of larvae from several black female Turnus (P. Glaucus) enclosed in 

 gauze bags on the branches of Tulip Trees, and from these in October we 

 had between 45 and 50 chrysalids. I also obtained several larvae from 

 Glaucus by enclosing the females in a barrel placed over a young tree. TVe 

 were desirous of seeing the results of breeding from Glaucus, and these, when 

 the imagos appear, shall be communicated. 



On 2nd June I confined females Hesp. Pylades, Scud., in a keg over a 

 plant of Desmodium Dillenii, and obtained mauy eggs. On 4th June, from 

 females Lycidas on same plant I obtained eggs. I raised several broods of 

 Philodice in same way. 



Mr. Mead (July 5) brought in several larvae of Melitma Harrisii, feeding 

 on Actinomeris helianthoides, Nutt. These were of two broods, and some 

 were % inch long others about J, all alike, black, covered with spines and 

 with a faint yellow lateral stripe. They seem to require dampness, and I 

 succeeded in bringing one of these to maturity by keeping it confined in a 

 close tin box. The previous year I had lost all my larvae of this species, 

 which I had attempted to feed in open boxes. The chrysalis resembles in 

 form and markings that of Phaeton, though the larvae differed generically 

 from the the larva? of Phaeton. The figure of the larva of Harrisii in 



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Packard's Guide is incorrect. Indeed that represents no larva of a butterfly, 

 but of some moth probably. 



Sept. 20, Mr. Mead brought in a larva that was quite new to us, generi- 

 cally so, and we thought it might be the coveted Diana at last. It was 

 yellow-brown, glossy, with six rows of fleshy spines, all steel-blue in color. 

 Between these spines, in the dorsal rows, white tuberculated spots ; the 

 head furnished with two long black spurs like antennae, jointed, and at 

 the end clubbed. This he found on a black alder resting on a leaf. In 

 three days it refused all food (alder), and remained most of the time 

 when observed motionless, but occasionally was very restless, evidently 



