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Isabella, though resembling it more in shape than that of viticordifoliella, 

 which is nearer to it in size. That of nysscefoliclla I have not seen. It 

 requires careful observation to distinguish the species. They are more 

 readily distinguished by their cases than by the marks of the imago ; 

 hydrangeceella and ampelopsietta may be distinguished at once from the 

 others by the possession of the apical spot, but they require close obser- 

 vation to distinguish them from each other. So likewise do Isabella, 

 nysscefoliella, corriifoliella and viticordifoliella; cornifoliella and Isabella 

 are, however, of a duller darker brown than the other two, and viticordi- 

 foliella likewise has white annulations towards the tips of the antennae. 



I have not seen any of the European species, but comparing our 

 species with the figures of Pfeifferella and Treitschkiella in Nat. His. Tin., 

 vii., the latter are much paler or lighter in color than our species. 



NOTES UPON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF CERTAIN 

 SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES. NO. i. 



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



I have in my note-books descriptions of one or more stages of several 

 species, of which no part of the life-history has hitherto been published, 

 and I propose, with the permission of the Editor, to give them in a series 

 of three or four papers. 



i. Eresia Texana, Edw. (Ci/icta, Edw., Smerdis, Hewn.). 



On 13th Sept., 1878, I received from Mr. J. Boll, Texas, a lot of 

 newly-hatched larvae. The eggs were laid in cluster upon the leaf of 

 Diclippa, on 7th Sept., and were immediately mailed to me, arriving five 

 days after. Nearly all the plant had withered, but there was a little 

 green about the flower-heads, and the larvae fed upon this till it was 

 consumed. I put in the glass with them leaves of Aster, on which 

 Tharos and Nycteis feed ; of Actinomeris squarrosa, on which Nycteis 

 feeds, and Chelonia barbata, the food of Phaeton, but for some days the 

 larva; refused all and most of them died. About a week after their 

 arrival I found the few sun ivors were eating Actinomeris, and thenceforth 



