80 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. ix. 



yellow ; on the last white. When very young the larva is black with 

 tiny white spines ; as it grows older all the spines turn yellow. The 

 chrysalis is attached by the tail, is gray at first, changing to brown. 

 Food plant, the leaves of the trumpet tree. The young larvae eat the 

 ribs of the leaf near the stem so that it hangs down as if dead ; be- 

 neath this the larvae remain concealed, several together. 



Eresia frisia Poey. 



A small gray caterpillar with an almost black line along the sides ; 

 eight rows of tiny spines covered with fine hairs ; those around the head 

 bright buff. Face shining, two shades of gray. The larva curls itself 

 up and falls to the ground when touched. Length nearly one inch. 



Chrysalis very small, attached by the tail ; dark brown in color. 



Danaus gilippus var. jamaicensis Bates. 



The pretty smooth caterpillar is a little over one inch long, with 

 alternate stripes of black and white and a short band of bright yellow 

 on each segment on the back and spots of yellow at the ends of the 

 white stripes just above the legs. On the second, fifth and eleventh 

 segments are a pair of tentacles, crimson at the base and merging into 

 dark red at the tips. The first pair of tentacles are much longer than 

 the others. Face black and white \ legs all deep velvety black. The 

 whole caterpillar looks like enamel. Some of the larvae are much 

 more white than others. The pupa is very pretty, being light green 

 with tiny black dots and gold spots. It is attached by the tail. I 

 have had the chrysalis pale pink instead of green. Although Mr. 

 Stuart Panton gives the food plant as Asclepias curassavica, I found it 

 to be the wild wat plant [probably Vincetoxicum palustre^ — Harrison 

 G. Dyar] . This butterfly has been described by Mr. E. S. Panton in 

 the Journal of the Jamaica Institute, I, pages 311-314 (1893). 



Pyrgus syrichtus Fabr. 



The larva is about one inch long covered with tiny white dots and 

 short white hairs which give it the appearance of being powdered ; a 

 dark green mark down the middle of the back, neck reddish brown. 

 It puts one leaf over the other and lives between them. The chrysalis 

 is enclosed in a leaf. Head and wing cases a dark green, the lower 

 part greenish white ; all looking as if powdered. 



* This is the food plant of D. gilippus var. berenice in Florida— H. G, D. 



