54 [May 



which have presented themselves. I would be pleased to have com- 

 municated to me any instance of the successful pairing of any of our 

 butterflies. 



Although so abundant at Schoharie, oleracea is not generally dis- 

 tributed over the State. In leaving the valley, it diminishes in fre- 

 quency as we ascend the surrounding hills. At Utica not one indi- 

 vidual came under my observation during last year, while at Oswego. 

 in the month of August. I found it very numerous. 



The larva is .9 in. in length; tapering toward the extremities from 

 the 6th and 7th segments ; head small, rounded, flattened anteriorly, 

 of the diameter of the 1st segment ; segments with six transverse 

 wrinkles; incisures rather deep. Color of the head and body, apple- 

 green ; a lighter green stigmatal stripe, becoming whitish just before 

 the change to chrysalis ; an indistinct vascular line ; body and head 

 covei'ed with numerous short hairs, giving it a downy appearance. — 

 those beneath, white — above the stigmatal line, black mingled with the 

 white, arising from minute black papillae; stigmata broadly oval. 



Ohrysalis, attached by its tail, and suspended by a girt about its 

 middle; quite angular; head with a single point; thoracic projection, 

 prominent, compressed laterally, apex rounded ; the two lateral projec- 

 tions, margining the wing-cases, shai'p ; abdomen, slender, pointed, 

 rounded beneath, with dorsal and lateral carinations. Color white ; 

 wing-cases, with brown linings, a brown irregular spot near the tip. 

 another near the base, and black points on the nervures and on the 

 margin intermediately : a black spot in front of each lateral projection ; 

 a short black line on the thoracic projection anteriorly and posteriorly ; 

 the segments superiorly, each with a brown cloud above their lateral 

 carination, and regularly dotted with black, as follows : four dots (di- 

 vided by the dorsal carination) posteriorly, forming a parallelogram — 

 four in a transverse line, nearer the anterior portion, and two still 

 nearer together, farther removed from the dorsal carination, — the ten 

 dots arranged in a W nearly. 



COLIAS PHILODICK, Grodt. 



I have seen this butterfly abroad as early as April oOth, and as late 

 in the year as November 4th. As with ohracea^ there are, in all pro- 

 bability, three broods each year, for after its first coming it continues 



