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a shallow depression ; on the abdomen three rows of small tubercles, 

 corresponding to the larval spines of dorsal and first lateral rows ; the 

 latter continued to mesonotum, on which they are larger than elsewhere ; 

 color dark brown, specked with buff; or sometimes light brown, specked 

 and streaked with darker ; the head and wing cases clouded with oliva- 

 ceous ; about the hind margins of the wings two parallel rows of whitish 

 points; the tubercles yellowish, but on the anterior side mostly black. 



2. Phyciodes Vesta, Edw. The butterfly figured in But. N. A., Part 

 7, Vol. 2. 



Chrysalis :■ shape of Tharos. — Length .4 inch, cylindrical ; the wing- 

 cases a little raised above surface ; head-case stout, narrow at top and a 

 little convex ; excavated at sides; mesonotum moderately prominent, 

 rounded, followed by a shallow depression ; abdomen stout, the segments 

 elevated at their anterior edges, and the foremost one quite prominently, 

 as in Tharos ; on abdomen several rows of fine tubercles, two of which 

 pass to mesonotum ; color apparently had been yellow-brown, specked 

 with black and dull white, but the example was dead, and I could not be 

 certain as to the shades of color in life. This was sent me recently by 

 Mr. Boll. 



3. Melitaea Baroni, H. Edw. 



I received from Mr. Oscar T. Baron, at Mendocino, Cal., about 

 twenty larva? in hybernation, after third moult, in fall of 1878. Mr. 

 Baron wrote that the eggs were laid 29th June, in clusters, one large and 

 several small ones, besides a few scattered eggs. The large cluster con- 

 tained 60 or 70 eggs, the small ones from 5 to 20. The larvae hatched 

 20th July, or after 21 days. The first care of the young larva? is to spin 

 a web which covers the whole brood, and they occupy this, enlarging as 

 necessary, till the time for hybernating comes. Then some of the larvae 

 leave the common web and spin for themselves in- the wilted leaves of the 

 food plant. (I infer from this that some of the larvae still remain in the 

 common web.) Mr. Baron sent me roots of the plant, which I forced in 

 the winter and got weak stems and a few leaves, but eventually all died. 

 The larvae did not survive the winter, though I treated them as I did the 

 hybernating larva? of Nyrteis, which lived. On 18th May, 1879, I 

 received from Mr. Baron quite a number of chrysalids of this species, of 

 which several were in good condition on arrival. From these emerged 

 6 butterflies. 



