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downwards from the posterior to the anterior portion of each segment. 

 The belly was yellow with a tinge of pink between the prolegs, and the 

 shiny tubercle at the tail was black with a yellowish ring round the base. 

 The head, which is characteristically marked, is slightly roughened and 

 dark, with a lighter broad band on each side, and a central mark down 

 the middle, which often takes the form of an X. " 



The chrysalis, which forms in a superficial cell on the ground, is black 

 inclining to brown between the segments. 



The moth is of a dull grayish-brown color, with the fore wings some- 

 what lighter beyond the middle and variegated with dark brown. The 

 hind wings are yellow, becoming paler near the body, with a broad border 

 of a dark brown hue. The margins of both wings are irregularly cut. 



This moth has been taken in the vicinity of Hamilton, and we believe 

 also in Amherstburg, Ontario, but we have not heard of its having been 

 captured anywhere else within our Province ; but as it is widely dis- 

 tributed, being found in nearly all the Eastern and many of the Western 

 States, it is likely to be yet met with in other localities among ourselves. 



ON THE LARY.-E OF LYC. PSEUDARGIOLUS AND 



ATTENDANT ANTS. 



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



In Ext., x., p. 80, I stated that Dogwood was found to be the spring 

 food-plant of this species, that is, of the larvae proceeding from eggs laid 

 by the form violacea ; but probably there are other plants serving the 

 same purpose, some of which bloom earlier than Dogwood, for fresh 

 examples of the butterfly, form pseudargiolus, were taken on 21st 

 April and on several subsequent days, and this was long before any of the 

 larvae feeding on Dogwood could possibly have produced them. Prof. J. 

 H. Comstock has recently scut me quite a number of mature larvae taken 

 by him at Ithaca, N. Y., feeding on the (lower heads of Viburnum aceri- 

 folium, and in confinement the larvae will eat Clover, Nasturtium, Begonia, 

 Asclepias, &c, eating the anthers. But I have been unable to make 

 the females lay eggs on Clover in confinement. On the Dogwood, so long 



