108 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



twenty years previous. The specimen measures four by six inches, has a 

 thickness of one inch, and is so thoroughly honeycombed by these 

 Crustaceans as to have reduced its original weight nearly one-half. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES, HABITS OF 



LARV^, ETC. 



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



Melit^ea Harrisii, Scud. 



I described the stages of this species in Can. Ent., ix., 165, 1877. In 

 fall of. 1883, I received several larv^ from Mr. Chas. Fish, of Brunswick, 

 Me., which were carried through the winter in ice house. They were 

 brought into a warm room 29th April, 1884, and ist May, began to feed, 

 the plant being wild Aster. On 4th May, some were passing the fourth 

 moult, and these reached fifth moult loth May. The first larva suspended 

 17th, pupated 1 8th, and the imago appeared eight days thereafter, or on 

 26th May. All the larval stages, however, were irregular. One larva 

 passed fifth moult 19th May, but did not pupate till ist June. On 7th 

 June, '84, I received from Mr. Fish about 20 larvae in last two stages, and 

 on 9th about 50 more. Some were in third stage from pupa, or between 

 2nd and 3rd moult. The species evidently hibernates after both 2nd and 

 3rd moult, as M. Fhaetoji does. Mr. Fish wrote that all were taken on 

 Dipoplappus, and says : '' I found them sometimes 4 or 5 on a plant, 

 always on the upper side of the leaf in the most conspicuous position. 1 

 have never found them making any attempt at concealment." Prof. Fer- 

 nald also says. But. Maine, that they make no web over their food-plant. 



Melitaea Phaeton, Drury. 



I related in Papilio, iv., 69, 1884, how Phaeton had come to be ex. 

 terminated in this region, by reason of a flood in the Kanawha River, in 

 1878, which covered the river bottoms to a depth of several feet in many 

 places, and especially in the swamp where I formerly used to find the 

 larv», as related in But. N. A., Vol. II. The swamp was under ten feet 

 of water for two days after the larvae had closed their webs for hibernation, 

 in August. For several years I had seen neither larva nor butterfly. I 

 had near my house, on high ground, a plant of Chelone glabra, which 



