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slender, and is sometimes entirely wanting. I have raised 

 the Progne and Connna butterflies from caterpillars which 

 were so much alike, that I am not certain to which of them 

 the following description belongs. These caterpillars were 

 found on the American elm in August ; they were pale 

 yellow, with a reddish-colored head, white branching spines 

 tipped with black, and a row of four rusty spots on each side 

 of the body. They were suspended on the 21st and 22d 

 of August, changed to chrysalids Avithin twenty-fom* hours, 

 and were transformed to butterflies sixteen days afterwards. 

 At another time, a Progne butterfly was obtained from a 

 caterpillar, which I neglected to describe, on the 18th of 

 August, the chrysalis state having continued only eleven 

 days. The chrysalis is brownish gray, with silvery spots on 

 the back, a short, thick, and rounded nose-like prominence 

 on the thorax, and two conical double-pointed horns or 

 ears on the head, the outer points very short, and the inner 

 ones lono-er and curvino- inwards. 



Vanessa Mllherti* Godart. Milbert's Butterfly. (Fig. 125.) 



Black above, with a broad orange-red band near the 



hinder maroin of all the 



Fig. 125. ^ 5 



t wings, behind which on 



the hind wings is a row 



of pale blue crescents ; 



fore wings with a small 



white spot near the tips, 



and two orange-red spots 



near the middle of the 



front edge ; under side 



deep broAvn, with a pale band near the extremity of the 



wings, and no metallic characters on the hinder pair. 



Expands from 2^ to 2f inches. 



This showy butterfly is rare in the vicinity of Boston, but 



* This is the Vanessa furcUlata of Mr. Say; but Godart's name has the priority 

 in point of time. 



