LYCAENINAK: UltANOTES MELINUS. 855 



early in July, ur even by tiiu very last of »Juiie, and Hies not only through 

 July, wiien the wings become rubbed, but also through August and occa- 

 sionally cMU until the middle of September. Mr. F. II. Spi'ague has 

 even taken one October 10, at Wallaston. iMai<8. 



The caterpillars found by Mr. A. C. Sprague on Cynoglossum wore 

 taken at the end of August in all stages. Some of them changed to 

 chrvsalis toward the end of September, so that it is probable that it hiber- 

 nates in the pupal state. In the extreme south, judging from Dr. Chap- 

 man's extensive memoranda and other notes, the butterfly is seen from 

 the middle of March to the middle of November and luiless the broods 

 follow each other with such rapidity as to become entirely confounded, his 

 statements would seem to indicate three broods, appearing about the mid- 

 dle of March, the middle of June and the middle of September, undoubt- 

 edly overlapping and growing successively more numerous in individuals ; 

 but specimens taken by Palmer at Indian River, Florida toward the end 

 of March were rubbed and ragged, so that in central Florida it probably 

 aj)pears by the first of March. The duration of the chrysalis state is 

 fourteen davs, according to a single observation by Abbot. 



The butterfly may be found about bushes and hop vines, and on Les- 

 pedeza ; it is very common in the south, and not infrequent in the north. 

 In South Carolina I found it in little companies of five or six, dancing 

 rapidly in and out among Coniferae, six or eight feet above the ground. 



Parasites. One of the chrysalids raised by Mr. Sprague on Cyno- 

 glossum gave birth to a parasite, Anomalon pseudargioli. 



Desiderata. Oin- knowledge of the seasons of this insect in all its 

 stages and of the exact apparition of the successive broods of the butter- 

 fly, either in the north or south, can by no means be considered as satisfac- 

 tory ; the time of deposition of eggs, their duration and that of the pupa 

 (in the north) are wholly unknown ; even the condition in which the 

 insect hibernates is not proved. We liave then scarcely a single satisfac- 

 tory datum whereon to build the history of this insect. Its habits, haunts 

 and flight equally need investigation and a description of the young larva 

 8 most desirable. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.— URANOTES MELINUS. 



Egij. Imago. 



P1.65, flg.5. Surface sculpture. P1.6, fig. 20. Female, both surfaces. 

 6. Side view of egg. 14:13. Both surfaces. 



68:3. Micropyle. 34:20. Male abdominal appendages. 



Caterpillar. 39:12. Neunition. 



PI. 75, fig. 21 . Full -rown caterpillar. ^4 : 9. Side view with head and appendages 



Chrysalis. 

 PI. 84, fig. 39. Side view. 



enlarged, and details of leg structure. 

 General. 

 PI. 23, fig. 6. Distribution in North America. 



