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twisted, sharp on tip, much shorter than the tube. I believe it probable 

 that the difference mentioned may be explained from the fact that Mc- 

 Lachlan had before him only a dry specimen, and I only one in alcohol. 

 As soon as this species can be more easily got for study, we may hope to 

 have detailed descriptions from a larger material. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST LARVAL STAGES AND 

 CHRYSALIS OF MELITAEA RUBICUNDA, H. Edw. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 



On 13th Sept., 1884, I received from Mr. James Fletcher 22 larvae in 

 hibernation, part of a lot sent him shortly before by Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, 

 of Victoria, V. I. The larvae, on exposure to the light, moved about, but 

 refused to eat Chelone glabra. I placed them in cellar, and in October 

 forwarded to Clifton Springs, N. Y., with larvae of other species, to go in 

 the "cooler." On 7th March, I received them again, and found about 

 one half to be alive. These I put in the ice house till I could get leaves 

 of the food-plant. In last days of April they were brought to the house 

 and given Chelone, the living larvae now being reduced to six. On the 

 third day, I noticed that the leaves had been eaten, and three or four days 

 later the larvae looked healthy and had recovered the length and diameter 

 which they had on 13th Sept., larvae always shrinking much during hiber- 

 nation. The description then taken is as follows : 



After supposed third moult : Length i\ inch ; cylindrical, rather 

 thickest in middle, and tapering equally to either end ; color black and 

 gray-white ; a mid-dorsal band of the latter color, cut longitudinally by a 

 black line ; then a broad black band reaching to middle of side, dotted 

 with gray on the tops of the cross-ridges ; below this to base about equally 

 black and gray, sprinkled and mottled ; the spines arranged as in the 

 allied species, there being seven principal rows, one dorsal, and three on 

 either side, besides a row of minute ones along base ; these upper spines 

 are rather long, broad at base and taper to a blunt top, and are beset 

 thickly from base to top with long black hairs; the dorsal row spring from 

 large orange tubercles, and for a little distance above are orange, the rest 

 black ; the other rows have black tubercles and the spines are black, 



