Cjjt Canadian Entomologist. 



VOL. XI. LONDON, ONT., AUGUST, 1879. No. 8 



NOTES UPON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF CERTAIN 

 SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES. NO. 2. 



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



4. Melhvea Minuta Edw. — Figured in Mead's Rqjort on Butterflies 

 of Colorado. Syn. Arachne Edw. , 



Chrysalis.— Length .54 inch ; cylindrical ; head case short, narrow, 

 rounded at vertices, the sides sloping ; mesonotum rounded, not promin- 

 ent, followed by a shallow depression ; the abdomen large, and offering 

 several rows of short conical tubercles ; color yellow-white or buff", marked 

 with black ; top of head case black, the antennas cases same ; mesonotum 

 with two crescent spots on each side; on the wing case a central patch 

 and dark border ; the segments of abdomen edged with black on dorsal 

 side ; a ventral longitudinal stripe and one on either side ; the tubercles 

 black at summit, orange at base. 



Sent by Mr. Boll, and obtained from larva bred by him in the spring of 

 1879, in western Texas. This resembles in shape the chrysalis of Baroni 

 and Phaeton. 



5. Parnassius Smintheus, var. Behrii. 



Egg. — Does not differ from that of type Smintheus, as figured in But- 

 terflies of N. America, vol. 1. Button-shaped, the sides rounded, the top 

 depressed, base flattened ; the surface covered with a crust of hexagons, 

 which diminish as they approach the micropyle, and show a little open- 

 ing at each corner of the hexagon down to the shell ; color chalky-white. 

 Deposited on leaves of species of Sedum. 



Young Larva. — Length .9 inch ; cylindrical, thickest anteriorly, 

 tapering slightly to last segment ; the segments a\ ell rounded ; color 

 black, with four rows of tubercles on either side, not very prominent, 

 whitish, each sending out one or more black hairs \ from those of dorsal 



