LIMENITIS I. 



wantino-. This was captured in the Catskills. Another, from same district, has 

 the band on upper side narrow and macular, and only pure white from inner 

 margin to cell, the remainder being crocked and indistinct ; on secondaries the 

 band is very narrow and ends at the first branch of sub-costal nervure, and 

 nearly the whole area outside to martj-in is blue. 



Egg. — Shape nearly spherical, flattened at base; the whole surface covered 

 by hexagonal reticulations, forming cells which are roundly but shallowly exca- 

 vated ; from each angle of the cell arises a short, tapering, white, filamentous 

 spine: color grayish -green. (Figsi. a, a" magnified.) Duration of this stage 7 to 

 9 days. 



Young LuVRVA. — Length, .09 inch ; cylindrical, thickest at segments 3 to 5, 

 tapering gradually and slightly to 13; color yellow-brown; covered with fine 

 concolored tubercles, each giving out a short, white, clubljed hair ; on segments 

 3, 4, 5, 6, and 12, is one prominent conical tubercle of darker color on either side 

 of dorsum, those on 3, 6. and 12 largest ; under side, feet, and pro-legs, yellow- 

 brown* head much broader than body, sub-globose, narrowing, a little towards 

 top, l)ilobed, glo.ssy brown. (Figs, hh^, magnified.) The larva rests mostly on 

 its venti'al legs, the anterior segments being raised and somewhat arched. To 

 first moult eii>;ht davs. 



After first moult: length, .19 inch; color, blackish-ln'own ; on 8 is a light- 

 brown patch, covering the dorsum and part of sides; along base, over feet, a 

 fleshy ridge ; segment 2 is narrow ; on segments after this tliere is one broad 

 ridge, followed in most cases by two narrow ones, and these last are thickly set 

 with small tubercles of irregular sizes, conical, each with short, whitish hair; on 



3 the broad ridge is consideral)ly elevated dorsally, and at each end is a tawny 

 conical process, crowned Ijy a cluster of little fleshy knobs, dark and light ; 

 between these ai'e two small ones with little crowns; on 4 the elevation is less, 

 and there are four small and equal crowned processes in line ; on 6, also ele- 

 vated, are two large ones with crowns, and on 12 are two; on each of the iu- 

 tervenins; seo;ments are two small similar ones, and on all the segments, from 



4 to 11. are two small simple tubercles on the antei'ior part of the segment 

 between the larger ones ; these dorsal processes form two longitudinal rows, and 

 are concolored with the ground they stand on ; there is also a lateral row of 

 small crowned processes, and others more irregular are placed on the basal 

 ridge ; feet and pro-legs, black ; head obovate, truncated, and depressed at top, 

 the vertices rather high, and each bearing a short, black, compound j^rocess ; 

 color black, the surface rough, and thickly covered \Yith conical tubercles, those 

 at top, sides, and along the upper part of face, being largest, and mostly yellow- 

 brown ; remainder black. (Figs, c <?, magnified.) To next moult 6 days. 



