88 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF 

 SATYRUS CHARON, Edw. 



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



Egg. — Conoidal, somewhat rounded at base ; truncated, nearly flat, a 

 very little convex, at top ; the sides a little convex, and marked by about 

 twenty-two sharp vertical ridges, which start from edge of base and end 

 at rim of summit, the spaces between these ridges deeply and roundly 

 excavated ; the summit is covered with shallow cells, irregularly five and 

 six-sided, in four rows, not concentric, but somewhat spiral, about a cen- 

 tral rosette of rhomboids. Very like the egg of Alope, but there are a 

 greater number of flutings on sides. Color lemon-yellow. Duration of 

 this stage about 12 days. 



Young Larva. — Length . i inch ; the anterior segments thickest, tap- 

 ering from 3 or 4 to 13, at the extremity nearly square, with a projecting 

 point at either side ; armed with long white processes or bristles, arranged 

 as follows : on either side, a sub-dorsal row, a second on mid-side, and a 

 third along base ; also two demi-rows confined to 2, 3, 4, one of them 

 between the two upper rows, the othpr between the second and third 

 rows ; the sub-dorsal has one bristle each on 2, 3, 4, bent forward, 2 each 

 from 5 to 12, I on 13, besides another proceeding from the terminal 

 point, all bent back ; the demi and lateral rows have one to each segment, 

 all bent forward, except those on 12, 13 ; the lower row has two to each 

 segment, those on 2 bent forward slightly, all the rest back ; these bristles 

 are thick at base and taper a little to a blunt point, and under a high 

 power are seen to be rough with the stubs of branching spurs ; there are 

 also over pro- and anal legs two shorter bristles to each ; in most of these 

 bristles the 'bend is close to base, giving them the appearance of so many 

 hooks ; and they spring from rather prominent tubercles ; color of body 

 pinkish-yellow, with red-brown longitudinal lines, one mid-dorsal, two 

 finer ones close together on mid-side, and another heavier than the last 

 just over spiracles ; there is also a less distinct and broken line along 

 base ; legs and pro-legs color of body ; head one-half broader than 2, sub- 

 globose, narrowing upwards, the top a little depressed ; color yellow- 

 brown, specked thickly with red-brown ; a few white bristles over surface, 

 like those on body and rising from dark brown tubercles, all bent down ; 

 ocelli brown^ except the largest, which is emerald-green. 



