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the Gelechia, in which, as it seems to me, it had taken refuge after an ac- 

 cident to its own home. 



I do not deny, however, that it may feed elsewhere upon leaves and 

 flowers of the Golden-rod, or that it may occupy other galls ; but I feel 

 sure that, at least in this vicinity, it habitually makes the abundant gall 

 in which it resides. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF 

 NEONYMPHA AREOLATUS, Smith-Abbot. 



BV W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 



Egg — Nearly globular ; the surface smooth under a low power, but 

 under a high one, thickly covered with shallow depressions, which are 

 irregular in size and also in form, being pentagonal, rounded or oval ; 

 color pale green. Duration of this stage about 6 days. 



Young Larva. — Length .12 inch; cylindrical, nearly even, tapering a 

 httle posteriorly, the last segment bluntly forked ; color delicate green ; 

 over the surface many white hairs, and among these are black clubbed 

 hairs disposed in longitudinal rows, four on the dorsum of each segment, 

 two in front, two in rear ; feet and legs green ; head large, about twice as 

 broad as any body segment, sub-globose, a little depressed at top ; on 

 each vertex a short semi-ovoid appendage, at the top giving out two 

 divergent black hairs ; just below vertex, on the front, is a similar smaller 

 appendage with single hair, and on the side half way down is a second ; 

 color black. Towards the end of this stage the color of body changes to 

 decided green, and several longitudinal stripes appear ; on either side of a 

 dark green medio-dorsal stripe is a whitish one, a similar one on middle 

 of side and another along base. Duration of this stage about 8 days, but 

 depending on the weather. 



After I St moult — Length .22 inch; slender, the dorsum slightly arched 

 and sloping posteriorly ; the tails longer, tapering ; color of body green, 

 the tails faintly red ; surface quite thickly covered with fine yellowish 

 tubercular points, partly arranged in longitudinal rows, ten in all, on either 

 side one next the medio-dorsal green stripe, one sub-dorsal, two on mid- 

 side and one along base ; under side, feet and legs green ; head ovoidal, 

 truncated, depressed at top ; on each vertex a low conical process ; surface 

 rough with sharp tubercles, of varying size, each with very short bristle ; 



