482 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 08 
to the 7th of July. The exception came out in midwinter. The 
pupae were kept most of the time in a warm dry room. 
Three hymenopterous parasites were found preying upon the 
larva, and they all emerged the same season. One, presumably 
a braconid, spun a bright yellow cocoon but the adult escaped 
unobserved. But one larva parasitized each caterpillar, as was 
the case with the other two species. A single specimen of an 
ichneumon was reared from a pupa, but the commonest of 
the three parasites pupated within its host, when the latter was 
at the end of the third instar. Before pupating, the parasite 
in the now dead and elongate larva securely fastens the latter 
to some object by piercing the exuvium below the head and 
cementing it through this aperture with some secretion. But 
the perfect insect makes its escape not through the anterior 
portion of the skin, but through a hole in the dorsum of the 
posterior end, Fig. 1 represents a larva of L. antiacis two days 
prior to pupation; Fig. 2 dorsal view of a pupa of the same. 
Lycaena behrii. 
Mature larva—Head black; body very pale coffee color; still paler 
below the spiracles; median line reddish brown, with a purplish tinge. 
Pattern similar to that of antiacis, the oblique dashes whitish, the 
sub-horizontal and horizontal bands more obscure, all three being visi- 
ble from segs. 2-9. Lateral line white, purplish ventrad. Long, pale, 
roughened hairs on body, longest dorsad and laterad, and of a darker 
shade on seg. 1. Shield grayish green. Length 15 mm., width at seg. 
7, 5.7 mm. Another mature larva of this species is darker in color 
than the preceding, and is pale greenish sub-laterally; the median line 
blackish spotted, with a greenish tinge, broadest and purplish on 
seg. 2 and invisible on seg. 1, where its course is indicated by a few 
piliferous dots; bordering band paler than dorsal ground, oblique 
dashes and two following bands pale drab, the lowest with a greenish- 
