LYCAENINAE: URANOTES MELINUS. 853 



Caterpillar. LaH shif/e (75 : 27). Dark, dingy, velvety l)i'own, apparently witli no 

 markiiij;s whatever, the dorsal region flattened in a narrow Held, wliicli is less pro- 

 fusely covered witli tlie long bristly liairs wliicli cover all parts of tlie body and appear 

 to be most abnndant and longest on tlie larger front segments and on the laterodor- 

 sal angle marking the limit.ation of the dorsal flattened region; they arc mostly 

 directetl backward, tapering regularly, straight or scarcely curved, pale or dark tes- 

 taceous, deepening sometimes into blackish and occasionally pale tipped but generally 

 luteo-testaceous at the base and deepening in color to a greater or less extent apically ; 

 the longest are not so long as the abdominal segments and they are minutely, dis- 

 tantly and most briefly furnished with subrecumbent spicules. Length, G.8 mm. ; 

 breadth, 2.4 mm. Length of longest hairs about .5 mm. 



Described from a dried specimen, found by Mr. A. C. Sprague at South Hadley , Mass. , 

 In August, 1880, on Cynoglossum. .-Vccording to Mr. Sprague they were brownish 

 when small, afterwards reddish, and before transforming purplish white. They did 

 not hatch but were determined from the chrysalis. 



Chrysalis (84: 30). Luteo-testaceous, strongly discolored with blackisli fuscous 

 on the sides of the thorax and flecked with the same on the sides of the abdomen, 

 on the latter especi.ally about a series of small round black spots in the centre of the 

 first six segments in a lateral series ; a similar black spot occurs along tlie median line 

 on the front edge of the pronotum, and the hind edges of both pro- and metano- 

 tum, in the latter case extending also across the first abdominal segment; also on 

 the produced hinder edge of the metanotum laterally next the wings ; a fine impressed 

 line down the middle of the mesonotum. The dorsal portions of the wings are more 

 or less flecked with the darker markings, but beneath, like the rest of the under sur- 

 face which has a slight but warm reddish tone, the markings are reduced to scattered, 

 obscure, fuscous dots. The elevated tracery of the surface is usually of the tint it 

 covers, but on the abdomen including the dorsal portion it is more or less deeply 

 infuscated and the mammulate bases of the hairs are everywhere more or less 

 infuscated. The hairs are short, now here equalling one-third the length of the ab- 

 dominal segments, luteo-testaceous at base, dusky at tip. Length, 9 mm. ; breadth of 

 thorax, 3.85 mm. ; of abdomen, +.25 mm. 



The single specimen seen was obtained by Mr. A. C. Sprague from a larva taken 

 on Cynoglossum at South Hadley, Mass. 



The following description was drawn up many years ago from the shell of a chry- 

 salis raised by Dr. Harris. 



Dull wood brown, faintly obscured with irregular, small blotches of fuscous ; the ab- 

 domen tingeil with yellowish ; edges of the segments both of thorax and abdomen and 

 the edges of the appendages a little infuscated ; a blackish fuscous dorsal dash on the 

 metathorax, first and anterior half of the second abdominal segment; lateral central 

 and suprastigmatal, posterior and smaller, blackish fuscous spots on the second to 

 seventh abdominal segments ; the net work of raised lines reddish brown, the hairs 

 fusco-luteous, those in front of the body longer and frequently black, usually black 

 tipped. Length, 8.5 mm. ; breadth of abdomen, 4 mm. ; height of abdomen, 3.75 mm. ; 

 length of anterior hairs, .44 mm. ; other hairs, .27 mm. 



Distribution (23 : (> ) . This widely spread species will probably be 

 found in every part of the United States, excluding Alaska. Strange to 

 say, I have not received it nor found a single notice of its occurrence north 

 of our boundary, excepting that it occurs rarely near Montreal (Lyman), 

 and is found at Vancouver Island (Fletcher) ; yet along this border it is 

 known in most of New England, at Albany, N. Y. (Lintner), Cleveland 

 and Rockport, Ohio (Kirtland), northern Illinois (Worthington) , Wis- 

 consin common (Hoy), Dallas County, Iowa (Allen), Dakota and Mon- 



