THE CANADIAN ENTUMULOGlST. Oi 



body. They are frequently found feeding on melon and cucumber vines, 

 and do not confine their attacks to the leaves, but eat also into the fruit, 

 either excavating shallow cavities on the surface, or penetrating directly 

 into its substance. Tliey sjjin their cocoons on a fold of the leaf, as seen 

 in ilic tigure. within which they change to slender brown chrysalids about 

 three quarters of an inch long, from which in a short time the ])erfect 

 insect emerges. 



The beautiful tigure illustrating this subject was drawn from nature by 

 .Mr. Marx, of "\\'ashington. and inibhshed in Prof. Comstock's Report, as 

 Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, for 1879. Through the 

 kindness of Dr. Loring, U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture, we have been 

 supplied with an electrotyi:)e of it. 



OBSERVATIONS ON LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS. 



V.\ MRS. C. E. HKU.STIS. PARRS-BORO. N. S. 



I was much interested in an article in Vol. xiii. of the Canadian 

 Entomologist, by Mr. \\'. H. Edwards, entitled. '• Is Liiiuiiitis artheniis 

 double-brooded ? " My own observations previous to the time of reading 

 the article were confirmatory of Mr. Edwards' theory ; but 1 wished to 

 learn more of this interesting species before hazarding any remarks con- 

 cerning its habits. 



I have never reared or attemiJted to rear arthemis from the egg, but 

 have one specimen obtained from a full-fed larva found on the 2nd Juh , 

 1877. It went into chrysalis on the 3rd. and the imago appeared on the 

 1 6th. I have seen fresh looking specmiens on ist July, when enjoying, 

 with other citizens, " Dominion Day " in the country. Later than this I 

 have not seen a fresh specimen, excepting the example before recorded. 



I find in an old note book the following entry : " Parrsboro, N. S., 

 July 25, 1877, captured to-day a worn and battered specimen oi Llmenitis 

 arthemis, the only example seen, although the species is usually abund- 

 ant in this wood." A few days later I saw another specimen less worn, 

 but did not succeed in capturing it. 



The bustle consequent upon a change of residence prevented me in 

 the early part of last summer (1882) from doing much collecting, so that 

 1 had no opportunity to observe at how early a date art/iemis appears 

 here : but later in the season I s])ent a few days with some friends in a 



