Limenitisand Heterochroa4, Apatura i,Paphia, i. In Libythea 

 I, Carijicnta, Cram. 



A few observations on some of these species will be proper 

 here. 



I. Papilio Daunus. Bd. 



Three examples were sent me, all immense, expanding, ? 

 nearly 6 inches ; the male 5.75. On the ? , the breadth of the black 

 border between the outer tails is nearly one inch. The Northern 

 examples of Dminus, or those which fly in Nevada, have scarcely 

 more than half the superficial area of these Arizonians. 



Mr. Neumoegen received through his agent, Doll., in 1881, 

 two blown skins of the mature larva of Daunus, and three living 

 chrysalids. One of the latter was given me, and Mrs. Peart made 

 drawings of it, after which I put it in alcohol. The other two 

 Mr. Neumoegen retained. One of them, on 7th Sept., 1882, gave 

 imago, the other is still alive, and will pass the second 

 winter. So protracted a chrysalis term I never have known 

 for any Diurnal, though not very unusual in certain Sphingidae.* 

 I cannot discover any tangible difference between the 

 chrysalis of Daunus and that of Turnus. The caterpillar 

 is similar to that of Turnus, and has the same black and 

 yellow stripes across dorsum, at junction of segments 5 and 6, 

 and has also an ocellated spot on side of 4. But in these ex- 

 amples, this spot is round, with a round pupil, and higher on 

 dorsum are two quadrangular solid yellow spots with black eyes, 

 one of these being attached to the ocellar spot, the other 

 separated. In Turnus there is an obovoid black ring, with two 

 elongated inside spots, or there is an eye-shaped spot, outlined 

 black, with an elongated black pupil. Turnus varies, therefore, 

 as to these spots on 4, and a series of Daunus might do the same, 

 but at present the only difference I discover is in the shape and 

 number of these spots. 



Mr. E. M. Dodge, while at Boulder, Colorado, last summer, 

 found both Daunus and Indra plenty (the latter on the summits 

 of the mountains, just as it has been found by Mr. Henry Ed- 

 wards, in Nevada), and observed Daunus ? ? ovipositing. By 

 confining one of them in a bag over a wild plum branch, he 

 obtained about 50 eggs, and mailed them to me. Unfortunately 

 they never reached me, and so a good opportunity was lost for 

 getting at the whole series of preparatory stages. 



Papilio Rutulus. Bd.; Var. 



Of this I received 6 ^ (J , and have inspected i 9 , belong- 

 ing to Mr. Neumoegen, taken in Arizona. For several years I 

 have endeavored toobtain eggs or larva or drawings oi Rutulus, but 

 have utterly failed to get any one of the preparatory stages. Mr. 

 Mead, while in California, in 1878, induced a ? to lay eggs for 



* In Can. Ent. 9, 13s, Jacob Boll notes a like occurrence with occasional chrysalids of P. CrtiT 

 phontei. 



