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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The following table shows the differences in the larvae above-men- 



tioned 



L. Corulisella. 



Blueish, smoky, except 

 the head and anal seg- 

 ment, which are vell<>w-» 

 ish. 



Translucent spots oft 

 segments, !. 2, '■>. 6, 7 

 and 8. 



L. nvtti'tiititi In. 



Blueish, .smoky, except 

 head, 1st, <Sth and fal- 

 lowing segments, which 

 are yellowish. 



Translucent spots, as 

 in Confliselia. 



L. tEsculiRetta. 



Whitish yellow, 

 not at all ,-mokv. 



Same as jEscu- 

 lisella. 



i Translucent Translucent 



spots indistinct, spots not visible. 



These differences I have found to be constant, and that in the general 

 colour is striking:. 



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THE NISONIADES BUTTERFLIES. 



BY ri. W. PARKER, \MHF.RST. MASS. 



I write no less to elicit information, than to offer such as ray Limited 

 material affords. In a very interesting and original paper on Asymmetry, 

 published by the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1869-71, Messrs. Scudder and 

 Burgess describe and figure the genital armor of all our species of 

 Nisoniades, making seventeen species, of which nine are new. Their 

 Virgilius I have not, and doubt its validity, my specimens of Horatius 

 having a mixture of the characters of the two species ; the specimens 

 differ somewhat from each other in armor, and, what is puzzling, are very 

 different in size, though wonderfully alike in colouring, and very unlike 



