CCENONYMPHA I. 



lot of eggs from Professor Rivers. By 11th inst., all had hatched. On ITth 

 May, the first moult was passed by some of the larvaj, the second on 2 1th May, 

 the third on 3d June. The first pupation took place 15th June, and the first 

 butterfly came out 2Gth June. From laying of eggs to imago, G-5 days, the egg 

 stage having been 1-3, the larval 41, the chrysalis 11. The butterflies were all 

 of the form California. The larvae fed on any species of lawn grass. The egg 

 much resembles that of the genus Satyrus in shape, but there are twice as many 

 ribs as in S. Aloj^e, and the network on summit is much finer. The egg- differs in 

 all respects from any species of the genus Neonympha with which I am acquainted. 

 The larva and chrysalis are very like AUype, but the processes at the first larval 

 stage are widely different from Alope, or other true Satyrus. The arrangement 

 of the tubercles and processes on the young larva are almost exactly as in Neo- 

 nympha Gemma, except that in the latter the processes are more of the nature 

 of hairs. As in Gemma also, there were but three moults, which is excejjtional 

 with butterflies. 



Mr. Henry Edwards writes of Galadinns : " It is almost the earliest butterfly 

 of the year in California, making its appearance on warm days even in March, 

 and becomes abundant in April, continuing so throughout May. It is always 

 found upon grassy plains and meadows, and in the open ; has a slow and rather 

 irregular flight, alights very often, and is fond of settling upon flowers. If a 

 storm comes on, or the sky becomes much obscured by clouds, it at once clings to 

 the stems of grasses or other plants, and folds its wings to rest. It is remarkably 

 common about the Bay of San Francisco, and I have taken it in the mountains up 

 to 5000 and GOOD feet. It is certainly found in Nevada, though I never saw it in 

 that State. I took it in Oregon and Washington Territory, but not on Vancouver's 

 Island. It seemed there to be replaced by C. Ampelos.'" Professor Rivers says : 

 " Galactimis affects open places in the vicinity of woods or in the canons, or on 

 the slopes of the foothills of the Coast Range. It is common at Berkeley at from 

 two to four hundred feet above the sea-level ; also in Napa and Sonoma Counties, 

 and is found both in the valleys and on elevated hillsides where there are open 

 places associated with trees and bushes. Its mode of flight is a short and low up 

 and down movement, sometimes drifting with the wind, but always making short 

 stoppages on the lowest herbage. It remains with us here till the latter part of 

 October." The habits as described are similar to those of the Neonympha). 



Kirby catalogues .some two dozen species of this genus, and they are found 

 throughout the north temperate zone in Europe, Asia, and even in Northern 

 Africa. In North America there are seven or eight species. The mature larvae 

 and chrysalids of two species are figured in Buckler's " Larvte of British Butter- 

 flies," (London, 1886,) and in both cases these stages are closely like those of 

 Galactinus. 



