AmerigAna 



VOL. III. 



BROOKLYN, DECEMBER, 1887. 



NO. 9, 



EARLY STAGES OF SOME NORTH AMERICAN 

 LEPIDOPTER A. 



By Henry Edwards. 



With a view to ihe publication at an early day of a ''Catalogue of 

 the Described Trans/ot ma/ions of North American Lepidoptera" which 

 I wish to make as complete as I can, 1 have prepared the present 

 paper, and I take the opportunity now presented to me, of asking my 

 fellow entomcilogists throughout the country to publish as quickly as 

 possible, any descriptions tliey may have of eggs, larva; or pupae, so that 

 the references to them may be made in my forthcoming work, to save as 

 far as may be, their future issuance in the form of an Appendix. The 

 Catalogue up to the end of the Sphingidoe is now ready for the printer, 

 but will be kept back until the close of the year, so as to embrace de- 

 scriptions which may l)e given in answer to this appeal. 



RHOPHALOCERA. 



Synchloe (Coatlantona) Janais, Drury. Chrysalis. 



In form very much like the chrysalis of Melilaa. It is obtusely cylindrical, 

 swollen about the head parts, and tapering abruptly at the 4th abdominal segment, 

 those behind being somewhat bent downwards. The color is dull sordid white, with 

 numerous black dots and dashes. There are dorsal and sub-dorsal rows of raised 

 black points, two raised black points on the thorax, and between and behind them 

 are two bars of black, placed like the sides of a triangle. The sides of the thorax and 

 head are also conspicuously marked with black irregular blotches. On the wing- 

 cases are several long distinct l)lack streaks, and a row ot black dot> marks the course 

 of the spiracles. Underside also strongly marked with black dashes and blots. The 



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