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years before had been brought from this swamp in order to have food 

 convenient when I might have larvae of Phaeton, and 25th June, 1883, a 

 knot of twisted leaf enclosing eggs of Phaeton was found on this plant. 

 Some straying butterfly had found the plant and laid a large cluster of 

 eggs on it. The larvae from these were carried through the winter, about 

 60 of them, and I determined to re-people the swamp. On 29th April, 

 '84, I had searched it for larvae, but found none. On 22nd May there- 

 after, I turned loose 2 J" 6 ^ , and ist June, 12 ^3 %. On 17th July, 

 I visited the swamp again and soon found five webs, with hundreds of 

 caterpillars. Mr. C. Troxley, of Louisville, Ky., wrote me that he had 

 taken Phaeton feeding on Mimulus ringens, a plant not before recorded. 

 Miss E. L. Morton, of Newburgh, N. Y., has fed the larva in confine- 

 ment on the narrow-leaved Plantain. The other plants known are 

 Chelone glabra, Gerardia pediculata, Lonicera ciliata and Viburnum 

 dentatum. 



COLIAS EURYDICE, Bois. 



I raised a brood of larva of this species in 1884, from eggs sent by 

 Mr. \A'. G. Wright, San Bernardino, on Amorpha Californica. I have 

 several of these plants growing in my garden, sent by Mr. Wright, and by 

 covering them in winter, or moving them to the cellar, they do well here. 

 I described the stages of Eurydice in Can. Ent., xv., 224, 1883, and then 

 stated that there was no generic difference between the larva, eggs or 

 chrysalis of this species and Philodice, belonging to Group 2. There 

 seemed however to be a difference in the food-plants of the two groups, 

 Philodice and Eurytheme feeding on Clover and Astragalus, the other on 

 a shrub. But I separated part of the Eurydice larva in '84, giving them 

 white clover, and though they at first seemed unwilling to eat it, they did 

 become used to it and went to pupation on it. 



The Eurydice butterflies that I have had or have received from 

 Southern California are nearly all quite different from those taken about 

 San Francisco, inasmuch as the disk to base of fore wing is not violet- 

 pink, but yellow. Some have a little changeable lustre, but most have 

 simple yellow. 



ViCTORiNA Stelenes, Limi. 



I have recently received a fine male of this species, taken March, 

 1885, at Indian River, Fla , by Dr. W. Wittfeld. A few weeks later 

 another was seen, but flying high, and out of reach. These are the only 



