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like the eggs of certain Papilios, turnus for instance, but is netted on 

 surface, like the former and unlike the latter. It is quite different' from 

 the egg of nephde, and the egg of gemma is globular. The young larva is 

 very different from that of nephele, but as it passes its several stages the 

 larva grows surprisingly like the corresponding stages of 7iephele both in 

 shape and color, while at every stage it is very unlike gemma in these 

 respects. It is less like eiuytris in shape than iicphele. On the other 

 hand, the chrysalis is very like that of eurytris, wholly unlike that of 

 gemma, and pretty near that of nephele. In these preparatory stages its 

 affinities are with eurytris in egg and chrysalis, with nephele in larva, and 

 as unlike gemma in larva and chrysalis as if the latter were an Apatura. 



INSECTS FEEDING ON GLEDITSCHIA. 



BY v. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. 



Helice pallidochrella Cham., and Agnippe biscolorella Cham. 



My observations on both of these species scarcely permit me to doubt 

 that their larvse feed in some way on the Honey Locust ( Gleditschia 

 tricanthos ), though neither of them has been bred from the larva. I 

 have, however, met with a larva from which I have not succeeded in 

 breeding the imago, and which I believe to be the larva of one of these 

 species. It is a GelechiaX\k.& larva, about half an inch long, with sixteen 

 feet, and feeds inside the seed-pods of the Gleditschia, on the honey-like 

 substance found in them, and not, so far as I have observed, on the seed. 

 Its head is very pale ferruginous, the other segments being of a pale apple 

 green, with very indistinct darker spots. I have met with it in September 

 and October, but have never found it in the old pods in the spring, where- 

 fore I think it probable that it leaves the pods to pupate. It is most 

 probably the larva of H. pallidochrella. This species will be considered 

 — and is — -a Gelechia in the wide sense — the sense in which it is a con- 

 venient receptacle for every species that cannot be better disposed of. 



