166 TWENTY-FOURTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 



ravages of which, in their progress to maturity, in all probability 

 would have prevented the heading of the plant. Of several of the 

 plants the central leaves had been nearly consumed, arid an amount 

 of excrementitious matter was distributed about their stalks by larvae 

 which had matured and probably transformed to the butterflies 

 which were then flitting about the garden. A rapae chrysalis was 

 observed, attached to the midrib of one of the larger leaves. Between 

 Saratoga and the Glen several of.Danais Plexippus were seen in grace- 

 ful flight. At the Glen, Colias Philodice occurred in companies, upon 

 damp patches of ground. Argynnis Cybele and A. Atlantis were 

 captured on the flowers of Canada thistle. Chrysophanus Ameri- 

 cana was very abundant. A single Lyccena comyntas was seen, and 

 a Grapta in flight, of which the species could not be determined. 



August 15th. At Schoharie, P. oleracea of the third brood, more 

 abundant than at any time previously this year. 



Two colonies of Vanessa Milbertii larvae were taken on nettle 

 ( Urtica dioica\ the one apparently after the first molting, and the 

 other after the third. The larvae of the former were feeding in com- 

 pany near the tip of a stem, and on one of the terminal leaves was a 

 cluster of the egg-shells from which they had emerged. 



August 18th. Fourteen larvae of Pieris rapce were collected, all of 

 which had transformed to chrysalides by the 21st ; the last'imago from 

 these emerged on the 30th. 



August 22d. Larvae of Pyrameis Atalanta abundant within 

 folded leaves of the nettle ; some of the larvae were nearly mature, 

 and others about half-grown. 



August 26th. A few young larvae ofLimenitis misippus were found 

 on poplar and willow. One on the willow had, at this early period, 

 commenced the construction of its hybernaculum, and another had 

 built its peculiar structure of bits, of leaf on the mid-vein. 



Collected ten Nisoniades Lucilius of the third (?) brood, most df 

 which were males. A few of the larvae, nearly full-grown were found 

 within their leaf shelters on the Aquilegia, but none of the chrysal- 

 ides or their cases could be discovered, although careful search was 

 made for them. 



Hesperia Peckius, Argynnis Bellona and A. Myrina, were abun- 

 dant on mint. Danais Plexippus was more numerous than I had 

 ever seen it. 



August 29th. The third brood of P. oleracea is nearly gone. As 

 near as can be determined from visits regularly made to Schoharie, 



