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America. Kirby places its genus, which he calls Melanargia, next to 

 what he calls Qiineis, Hiibner, but which should read Chionobas, Boi?duval.* 



The imago and two varieties of the larvae are figured in Humphrey 

 and Westwood's Brit. But., and what purports to be the pupa, suspended 

 by the tail from a leaf of grass. There is no resemblance at all between 

 the pupa so figured and the true pupa. The description of the larva is 

 limited to one line, "yellow-green, with a dark line down the back and 

 on each side." 



In Buckler's " Larvae of British Butterflies and Moths," 1886, (a book 

 which every working Lepidopterist ought to own, and published at a very 

 low price, to wit : ten dollars for the two volumes so far issued, the first one 

 covering the Rhopalocera) ; on plate iii. is figured the adult larva of 

 Galathea and the pupa. I have had this larva copied on my plate, Fig. i. 

 The te.xt, which is by Rev. J. Hellins, represents the pupa as found on 

 the sod, and unattached by the tail. This figure suggests an affinity to 

 certain moths, noctuids especially, f and led me to wish to breed the species 

 from the egg. M. Paul Chre'tien, of Paris, kindly obtained eggs and sent 

 them in a quill, in letter. They reached me 3rd Aug., 1886, thirteen 

 days out, and hatched the next day. The larva, when about to come 

 forth, cut the top in a circle, but not completely around, and raising this 

 trap door made its way out, the door immediately falling back. The 

 egg looked almost uninjured. The larva did not eat the egg shell. I 

 mention this, because Mr. Hellins says the young larva " eats up its egg 

 shell almost entirely," and he adds, " and thenceforward feeds on grasses," 

 also, " it hybernates when very small." My larvae hybernated at once 

 from the egg, just as the larva of Satyrus Alope does. I put the little 

 animals in the cellar, and later sent them to Clifton Springs, N. Y., to go 

 in the refrigerating house there. They came back 21st March, 1887, in 

 good condition. On 12th April, one passed the first moult. This larva 



* There is no such genus properly as Qineis, Hiibner. There is a coitus of that 

 name in Hiibner's Verzeichniss, made up of mixed Chionobas and Hipparchia, and 

 another one also made of the same two genera. By calling a coitus a genus, which it is 

 not and was not intended to be, eliminating the Hipparchias from both these coitus, dove- 

 tailing together what remains, and calling the manufacture Qineis, with a label Hiibner, 

 1 816, we get what is called the genus. The makers of lists and catalogues about 1870 hit 

 on this contrivance, and many European authors have come to adopt the name (J^neis. 

 In this country it has not met so favourable a reception. Perhaps the first definition of the 

 genus CEneis (and a definition is indispensable to recognition) was given by Mr. Scudder, 

 in Syst. Rev., 1872 ; but Chionobas, Boisduval, 1832, has the priority. 



t This figure resembles the Urva of Agrotis, all but the terminal segment, which is 

 Bombycid. 



