128 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I had no difficulty. The first moult escaped me, the second occurred 

 25th Sept., the third 6th Oct., the fourth about 15th. and the first chrysalis 

 formed 21st Oct. The butterfly emerged 8th November. The resem- 

 blance to genus Phyciodes, especially to P. Tharos, was close in all 

 stages. I doubt if Eresia and Phyciodes are properly more than groups 

 of one genus. 



Young Larva. — Length .08 inch ; cylindrical, of even size, the seg- 

 ments well rounded ; color greenish-brown ; on dorsum four rows of pale- 

 colored flattened tubercles, from each of which springs along black hair, 

 curved forward ; head larger than body, reddish-brown ; shape sub-ovate, 

 bilobed. 



After second moult. — Length .17 inch ; dorsum and upper part of side 

 brown, the lower part and under side yellow-green ; furnished with seven 

 rows of spines, one dorsal, three lateral, each spine stout, broad at base, 

 tapering to a blunt point, and thickly set with short brown bristles ; the 

 dorsal spines, and the tubercles from which they spring, greenish ; those of 

 first lateral row black; the two lower rows greenish ; over the feet is a row 

 of minute spines with bristles, all greenish; head sub-cordate, the vertices 

 rounded ; color dark brown, shining. 



After third moult. — Length .26 inch, same shape; color dark brown-, 

 specked with blue-white ; the lower part of side greenish-white, finely 

 marked with brown; on the lower side of second lateral spines is a longi- 

 tudinal black stripe, only found on the middle of each segment ; all the 

 spines dark brown except the lower laterals and the minute ones over 

 feet, which, as well as their bristles, are greenish-white ; head as before, 

 bronze-brown. 



After fourth and last moult. — Length .6 inch. 



Mature Larva. — Length .7 inch. 



Color yellow-brown, the dorsum and upper part of side much specked 

 with dull white ; running with first laterals is a whitish line, and just 

 below a black stripe, broken at the joints of the segments ; along the 

 base of body, embracing the spiracles on its upper edge, is a broad 

 dull white band, mottled with greenish and brown ; the lower lateral 

 spines on this band, and the spines over feet, greenish-white ; all others 

 brown; head sub-cordate; the vertices rounded, smooth, brown. 



Chrysalis. —Length .5 inch ; cylindrical, the abdomen stoutest; head- 

 case short, bevelled at the sides, nearly s ruare at top, the vertices pyra- 

 midal, not prominent ; mesonotum slightly raised, rounded, followed by 



