ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 409 
posit fertile eggs. The eggs should be placed in cardboard 
xes until they hatch; by no means place them in glass or 
meta boxes, as they are apt to mildew. The larvae seem to 
a gained mrmellall imee: this is 
rtic true after they have passed the second moult. I 
SE obs several interesting facts concerning the breed- 
ing of Pamphila, as 1 do not wish to consume too much of 
eB) - the valuable space of the News. 
a + Pamphila massazolt, 
a ae the larvae are of a dirty yellow color, and rather slen- 
ae der; body sparsely covered with long yellow hairs. Head 
nearly smooth, and of a light chestnut color. First moult oc- 
_ ctirred on July twenty-eight. The larvae are now of an olive 
green color, otherwise same as when first hatched. This spe- 
Found ; 
cae white. alte dellges ‘ihona When first 
hatched 
brood. I have never seen the butterfly on the wing before the 
fifteenth of June, or later than the fifteenth of July. It is very 
common in southern New Jersey about the fourth of July, and 
at that time the butterfly can be found on the flowers of the 
button-ball bush, as well as on the flowers of the cranberry and 
A female of this species was confined in a cage on May the 
twenty-fourth, and the next day several eggs were laid. The 
egg is of a pale green color and somewhat broader than high; 
the egg is covered with numerous fine depressions, and the 
apex is slightly flattened. The eggs hatched on the eighth of 
June. When first hatched the larvae are of an opake white 
color, but this changes to a dark green twenty-four hours after 
