778 Till': BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



course of the sides of the abdomen, luid is covered on tlie sides, at the tip, 

 and even on tiie upper edge, with very long hooks, so that here it does not 

 at all agree with the characteristic form of the Lycaeninae ; the body is 

 covered spar.selv witli very short pile, shorter than that of the caterpillar, 

 and witli the very infrequent, long, spiculiferous bristles seen on thclar\a, 

 but here arranged with no regularity whatever. 



The next one of the Lemoniinae whose transformations are known is an 

 Asiatic species of Abisara, A. prunosa. The illustrations on PI. 33 of 

 ISIoore's work show us the caterpillar, seen on a side view, as subonisci- 

 forni, with a head bearing much the same relation to the body as we have 

 seen in Nenieobins, moderately long legs and fusiform body, and covered 

 with very long hairs, apparently not more than six or eight to a segment ; 

 the description says "numerous dorsal and lateral short fine hairs," which 

 we presume means a pile in addition to the long hairs represented on the 

 plate. The chrysalis also is fusiform, as seen from a top view, and 

 covered sparsely with long hairs, but is poorly drawn, so that one can 

 hardly venture to say more, excepting that there is no indication that the 

 head can be seen, and the termination of the abdomen is apparently almost 

 precisely like that of Nemeobius, excepting that it is a little more atten- 

 uated. 



The only other information we have regarding the Asiatic species is a 

 statement of Doherty that the eggs of a few genera he has examined (he 

 does not specify further) are "not so high as wide, smooth, granulate or 

 prickly, not reticulate nor radiate," that is ribbed. 



We turn now to StoU', whose illustration of Euselasia crotopus (we use 

 the terminology of Kirby) is given in figure 7 of his sixth plate. In this 

 the caterpillar is repi'esented as strictly onisciform, very short, covered 

 densely with hairs rather longer than a segment, including a lateral fringe 

 along the base of the body, with a mat of brilliantly covered hairs cover- 

 ing the first two thoracic segments, accompanied by a pair of long, straight, 

 tapering appendages, as long as the width of the body, which Stoll' calls 

 spines, but which we should rather regai'd as in greater probability stiif 

 filaments ; the head is comparatively large, but apparently not more 

 than half the width of the body. The chrysalis is nearly of the same 

 sha])e as the caterpillar, largest just next the basal wing tubercles, tapei- 

 ing more rapidly in front than behind, broadly and equally rounded at each 

 end, and covered with pile shorter than that of the caterpillar ; further 

 detail cannot be seen. Another species of Euselasia, E. gelon, figured 

 by Stoll', but unfortunately only in the perfect stage, is said by Bar to be 

 nocturnal in habits, processional, the caterpillars following one another in 

 a single rank; it is covered with pile (velue), and "wholly resembles a 

 caterjiillar of a small Piombyx." The chrysalis somewhat resembles that 

 of Thecla. 



