LEMONIAS I. 



This caterpillar was slow in all its movements, rested for hours in one spot, did 

 not care for much concealment immediately after a moult and in the middle of 

 the stage, but when another moult approached, shut itself up closely, and was 

 only to be seen one or two days after the moult had passed. It did not eat of the 

 leaf which enclosed it, as so many caterpillars which conceal themselves in leaves 

 do, but went to an outside leaf to feed. And it eat very little as compared with 

 species of Lyctena or of Thecla, which I have had. As so little is known of the 

 early stages of any of the Lemoniina^, these particulars are somewhat important. 

 The eggs of Nais are in shape very like those of Lyctena Pseudarrjiolus, and 

 similarly, are covered with a reticulated coating. But the meshes of this are 

 five-sided, whereas in the Lyca3na they are four-sided, and rhomboidal. In 

 Thecla Henrici the meshes are three-sided. Each angle of the netting, in Nais, 

 sends up a filamentous spine, but in L. Palmerii these are replaced by rounded 

 knobs, and this is more in the style of both the Lycajna and Thecla mentioned. 

 The caterpillars have heads partly covered by the second segment, but neither 

 head nor feet are retractile, as in the Lycaenida3. The tubercles and their ap- 

 pendages in the several rows are alike in shape and number from 3 to 12, and in 

 this respect JVais differs from all spined butterfly larvaj known to me. The 

 fringes of long hairs around the entire base of the body, and falling over the 

 head, are also peculiar. The chrysalis is girt with a belt, as in the Lyca3nidtB, but 

 it is more in the middle ; and the abdomen is remarkably elongated, is not turned 

 under at the extremity, and is thickly clothed with bristling hairs. 



