<% dtwbian Entomologist. 



VOL. X. LONDON, ONT., APRIL, 1878. No. 4 



NOTES ON THE LARVA AND CHRYSALIS OF NEPHELODES 



VIOLANS. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL. 



During the last of April and through the month of May, 1877, I 

 found the larvae of this moth in grassy places in Washington County, 

 Illinois. When full grown they were 1.75 inches long, robust, the head 

 four-sevenths the width of the middle of the body. The color of. the 

 under side yellowish gray. Above the line of the lower part of the 

 stigmata, four broad dark brown stripes alternating with three narrow 

 grayish yellow ones, the latter in the dorsal and sub-dorsal regions, and 

 much lighter at the extremities of the body. Head gray, 'mottled with 

 brown, brown border to the inner part of eyes. Cervical shield very dark 

 brown, crossed by dorsal and sub-dorsal light lines. No hairs noticeable 

 except with glass. 



Changed the fore part of June, under ground, to dark brown chry- 

 salids, .80 of an inch long, very thick through the central part, rapidly 

 tapering to the next and so on to the last segment. The terminal segment 

 nearly cylindrical, rough, joined to the back part of the preceding, tipped 

 with two short, diverging bristles. Imagines appear about the middle 

 of September. 



While in confinement fed freely upon corn, grass and Polygonum 

 aviadare. They fed mostly at night, remaining concealed during the day 

 time, either under the rubbish of the box, or in the dirt, resembling in 

 this respect the cut worms ( Agrotis, etc.) 



