NYMPHALINAE: VANESSA CARDUI. 475 



a narrow yellowish or clay colored inargiu exteriorly. Body white beneath. Taken 

 in Summit Co., Ohio." (Strecker.) 



Plainly belon;i;fing to this same variety, though it has not yet been recognized in 

 Europe, is the form described and figured by Dr. Ilofmann (Jaresh. Ver. f. vaterl. 

 naturk. Wurtt., xl:328, pi. G, fig. 3, 1885), raised in Tiibingen from tlie caterpillar. 

 Although the figui-e is not colored and the description is meagre, it is plainly very 

 similar indeed to the preceding, though it possesses on the upper side of the fore 

 wings an orange blusli at the end of the discal cell not mentioned by Strecker, and the 

 sub-marginal spots at tlie apex are much enlarged and nearly confluent. A band, not 

 mentioned by Strecker, on the hind wings, and a row of black spots faintly discernible 

 in the Strecker specimen and pupilled with white points, here show in the photogra- 

 vure as tolerably large, white spots. The under surface of the hind Aving, not shown 

 in the figure, is described as being yellow-gray with darker markings than ordinary. 



To this variety should also be referred the butterfly figured by Donckier de Donceel 

 (Ann. soc. ent. Belg., xxi : 10, pi. 1, figs. 2, 3, 1878), taken in Belgium. In this tlie 

 darker markings are not so pronounced, the whole wing being merely infuscated. As 

 in the preceding, the white bar depending from the costa of the fore wings is absent, 

 and the sub-marginal spots of the apex are larger than usual, and are here represented 

 as accompanied by supplementary spots nearer the border. The hind wings have the 

 two sides dittercnt ; the sub-marginal spots of one side being fuscous in yellow lu- 

 nules, and on the other white at the outer termination of elongated oval yellow spots. 

 The under surface repeats to a large extent the markings of the upper especially upon 

 the front wings. But the normal colors of the ground are separated in a curious way 

 so that in the basal half the brown predominates and in the apical lialf the olivaceous. 



Mr. A. Phipson exhibited to the Entomological society of London in July, 188i3, a 

 remarkable variety of this species taken in southern England the year previous, in 

 which the oblique white band descending from the costa of the fore wings Avas of 

 double the usual Avidth, while the preraarginal white spots were reduced to mere dots, 

 and the fulvous color in the median area was entirely confined to a premarginal band 

 about as wide as the white band above. The hind wings showed nothing extraordi- 

 nary, and the under surface was not shown. It is figured on p. 20 of the Proceedings 

 for 1880, and does not appear to vary in the direction of any of the other aberrations, 

 in that the comparative values of the Avhite costal bar and the premarginal row of white 

 spots of the fore wings ai-e exactly reversed from what is found in all the others. 



Egg (64 : 30). The ribs vary from fourteen to nineteen, but in the majority of cases 

 are sixteen in number ; they are verj' thin and hardly increase in height until the sum- 

 mit is I'eached. The surface of the egg is not quite smooth, but is not punctate, and 

 the faint and delicate cross lines Avhich cross the ribs as well as the general surface 

 are about .025 mm. apart. Micropyle (67 : 7) consisting of a cluster of a dozen or 

 two roundish polygonal, subequal cells, those at the centre not much smaller than the 

 rest. Color of egg uniform pale green. Height, .75 mm. ; breadth, .58 mm. 



Caterpillar. First stage. Head dusky brown, mouth parts paler, eye specks black- 

 ish. Body pale, dirty green ; hairs (86 : G9) dusky, long and curving, seated on a tiny 

 wart not so high as broad. 



Second stage. Head shining black ; all the appendages black. Body dark umber 

 brown, mottled with paler brown, forming obscure mediodorsal and stigmatal bands ; a 

 roundish greenish yelloAv spot around the base of the laterodorsal spines of the second, 

 fourth and sixth abdominal segments ; appendages consisting of sugar-loaf sliaped 

 papillae (86 : 70) nearly twice as high as broad, tenninated by a slightly curving bris- 

 tle about two and a half times longer than the Avart ; furnished also on the middle of 

 the sides Avith a Avhorl of about four aculiform spines, directed upAvard at right 

 angles to each other ; legs and prolegs black exteriorly ; spiracles black in a pale 

 annulus. 



Third stage. Head (78 : 61) as before; body darker, approaching Ijlack, the mark- 

 ings as in the previous stage, but in addition there are yelloAv spots at the base of the 

 dorsal spines of the before-mentioned segments and often at the 1)ase of other spines, 



