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Vanessa Antiopa Linn. 



Description of caterpillar, June 21,1839. Black, minutely dotted with 

 white, and with a row of eight dorsal, dark brick red spots ; prolegs (ex- 

 cept the anal paii") dark rufous. Length one inch and a half to one and 

 thi-ee fourths. 



Head and body slightly pubescent, with short, white hairs; head heart 

 Fhaped, longitudinally furrowed before, and scabrous, particularly above, 

 with acuminated tubercles; first segment unarmed; second and third seg- 

 ments each with four black, slightly branched spines; fourth and fifth each 

 with six spines; sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth, each with seven 

 spines, the dorsal one becoming gradually larger behind, till it equals the 

 lateral spines in size and length; eleventh segment with three transverse 

 series, each containing two spines; a rufous, or dark brick red spot on the 

 top of each of the segments, from the third to the tenth inclusive ; prolegs 

 dark rufous, except the anal pair, which is black, with a pale rufous ter- 

 minal coronet. Feeds on Ulmus americana. 



June 18, 1820. Found the caterpillars. June 19, one had ceased eating; 

 June 20, A. M., it had suspended itself by the tail to a Aveb of the circum- 

 ference of a dollar, so as to hang with the body vertical, but the head and 

 anterior rings crooked upwards like a hook. June 21, became a chrysalis. 



June 24, A. M., another fixed its tail, and by noon was suspended. June 

 25; no change was perceived this morning, but at five p. ji. the exuviaa 

 were cast off, and it appeared in the chrysalis state. Imago, July G. 



June 25, A. M., another was suspended. June 2G, A. M., had cast its exu- 

 vias. Imago July 7, G o'clock A. M. 



June 28, a third found susijcnded, and exuvia; cast. July 9, imago. 

 The average number of days it remains a chrysalis is eleven or twelve. 

 The butterflies seen last of March, all April and May, 1820, March 1, 1825, 

 March 25, 1828, and in the crevices of stone heaps in the fields in the winter. 



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Vanessa Progne Fabr. 



Found a yellow caterpillar with branched spines, which wore white tijiped 

 with black ; near the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth spiracles, surrounding 

 the base of the second lateral series of spines, an ochreous spot. Sus- 

 pended itself by the tail Aug. 21, 1825. Became pupa Aug. 23. Imago, 

 Sept. 8, 1825 (a. m.). Chrysalis state sixteen days. 



Larva on American elm. Suspended Aug. 22, A- M. Chrysahs Aug. 

 22, P. M. 



Vanessa C. aureum Fabr. 



Found the caterpillars plentiful on the hop vine, and also on the elm in 

 August. Color feiTuginous, varied with black and yellowish white spots; 



