14 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Of course, as Dr. Chapman remarks, the enlargement of the 

 head after a moult is indicative of another stage. 



Notes accompanying the drawings as follow :' — 



Fig. 4. Segment directly after emergence ; drawn July 15th, 

 1907. 



Fig. 5. Shortly before first moult ; drawn July 23rd, 1907. 



Fig. 6 a, b. Before second moult {a, after first moult) ; drawn 

 July 31st, 1907. 



Fig. 7. Before third moult ; drawn August 6th, 1907. 



Fig. 8. Hybernating (after second moult) ; drawn Jan. 21st, 

 1908. Entered into hybernation about August 10th, 1907. 



Fig. 9. Fixed for third moult; drawn April 11th, 1908. 

 This one left its hybernaculum March 20th, and has since been 

 feeding on furze-blossoms twenty-two days after hybernation ; 

 239 days old. 



Fig. 10. After third moult, 245 days old, moulted third time 

 April 8th, 1908; drawn April 17th, 1908. 



Fig. 11. After fourth moult and fixed for fifth moult, about 

 260 days old ; drawn May 2nd, 1908. 



Fig. 12. Fully grown, Q,(tev fifth moult, about 275 days old; 

 drawn May 19th, 1908. 



Figs. 9, 10, and 11 are different individuals, but each kept 

 separate for observation with full data. 



AN AUTUMN MOENING IN THE ALLEGHANY 

 MOUNTAINS. 



By Margaret E. Fountaine, F.E.S. 



The morning mists are thick and heavy in the valleys 

 through which the Jackson River flows on towards the big 

 Atlantic Ocean far away ; but these misty mornings are almost 

 invariably the forerunner of a glorious autumn day. And it is 

 good to climb up the creeks and amongst the lower spurs of the 

 Alleghany Mountains, notwithstanding that there is almost 

 " nothing doing " here now amongst the butterflies, for the fall 

 is fast coming on, and the green leaves are rapidly turning red 

 and gold, as the sunset of the year approaches ; and the butter- 

 flies, too, for the most part, are of sunset colours — the deep 

 golden Terias nicip2)e being one of the commonest to be met 

 with, perhaps only to be outnumbered by Colias philodice, more 

 especially if in the neighbourhood of some strip of clover-land. 

 Two species of Grapta are still worth netting — G. interrogationis 

 (I always regret its name !) being a very fine species, with its 

 pale blue borders to its wings, and G. comma (a very close ally 

 I should think of our G. c-alhiim) are sometimes well in evidence, 

 though very wary and difficult to catch. But what we are most 



