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color of front dull black, of back reddish-yellow. (Fig. g.) In five or .six days 

 from maturity the larva suspends, and in from tliirty-six to sixty hours pupates. 

 Time from fifth moult to pupation twelve to fourteen days. 



Chrysalis. — Length one inch, breadth at wing cases .35, at abdomen .32 

 inch; greatest depth .4 inch ; cyliiKh-ical, a little compressed laterally; shape of 

 Cyhele, rather more slender, the head case a little narrower; head case, and 

 antenn.'B and tongue cases, shining brown-black, the first of these a little mottled 

 with brown-yellow ; the wing cases light yellow-brown, crossed by very many 

 fine dark brown streaks, and with a patch of same color near shoulder, another 

 on disk, and a large, broad patch near to and along hind margin ; abdomen gray 

 and brown in transverse bands ; on dorsiun the gray area is serrated, the points 

 reaching the front of each segment ; on sides and beneath the brown and gray 

 areas are about equal, the gray in rear. (Fig. h.) Duration of this stage seven- 

 teen to twenty clays. 



Another chrysalis was olive-brown, the anterior parts much covered with dark 

 brown dashes; the wing ca.ses pink-tinted, and dark next hind margin, the whole 

 finely reticulated with dark brown streaks; the anterior part of each abdominal 

 segment black, in a cross band, the posterior edges irregular, rather erose than 

 serrated. 



In the text to Argynnis Diana, Vol. II, p. 147, 1876, I gave a general account 

 of raising Iarva3 of Aphrodite. I have since then several times bred the species 

 from eggs obtained at Coalburgh, W. Va., carrying the larvae through the winter 

 in a refrigerating house. In all cases they went into lethargy direct from the 

 egg- 

 In 1888, 1 obtained eggs from a female confined over violet, on 23d September. 

 These hatched 15th October, and the larvas were sent to Clifton Springs, New 

 York, whence I received two survivors, 16th April, 1889. These were placed at 

 once on a plant, set in flower-pot, and covered by a muslin bag. One was seen 

 no more, but the other fed and passed its first moult 24th April; the second, 

 1st May; the third on 6th, the fourth on 12th, the fifth on 18th; suspended 

 30th, and pupated 2d June. The im.ago came forth 19th June, a female, after 

 seventeen days in pupa. The only peculiarity I noticed in this larva was, that 

 when about to pupate, it made for itself a tent of the leaves of the plant by 

 weaving them loosely together, so low down that when in suspension it would 

 nearly touch the ground. Not knowing what was going on, I pulled one leaf 

 off and the larva fell. The same afternoon it had fixed itself under another leaf, 



