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‘ninth, or twenty-two days after they had been laid. 
m ft ached the larva ar of an oaks. white, but 
y-four hours after starting to feed they were of a dark 
n color, with the body sparsely covered with long, light 
fayish hairs. The head and collar are nearly black, and shiny. 
et and prolegs of an opake white color. The first moult 
curred on June the nineteenth. Shortly after moulting the 
assumed a clear green color, otherwise I see no change. 
he second moult occurred on June twenty-eighth. The body 
is now of an oil green color, otherwise can notice no change 
Since last moult. Third moult occurred July the ninth, but I 
_ notice no change in the appearance of the larvae. Fourth 
I ccrred Jaty the tignocath, The larvae are now of a 
very dark green color, almost approaching a brown, Fifth 
moult occurred on July the thirty-first. The larvae are now of 
_ a dark brown color, and covered with numerous brown spots 
he a darker color than the body; a distinct narrow dorsal line 
| a greenish color is also noticed. August eleventh. The 
yae are now about full grown, and are about one and an 
P inches in length when body is extended. August twelfth. 
_ First of the larvae changed to chrysalis to-day. The chrysalis 
r about three-quarters of an inch in length, at first of a light 
green color which two days afterwards gives way to a drab 
color. I kept the chrysalids under my eye until the first of 
pS. October, when no imagoes having emerged, I placed the cage 
containing the chrysalids in a cool, dry part of the cellar. I 
yg ee cae from the cellar about the first of May of 
SERIA ated the eleventh of May. I believe the species is single 
brooded in southern New Jersey. 
5. Pamphila leonardus. 
Secured several females of this species at Atco, N. J., on 
September the third, fertile eggs were laid on the fifth of Sep- 
tember. The egg is half again as broad as high; of an opake 
white color, and very finely punctuated. Eggs hatched on the 
sixteenth of September. The larva when first hatched is of 
~ an opake white color, and sparsely covered with long hairs. 
