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to the under surface, with an irregular streak of bright red running through 
its lower portion. The body also has a downy look occasioned by its 
being thickly clothed with very minute pale hairs. 
The chrysalis is about seven-tenths of an inch long, attached at its 
base, and girt across the middle with a silken thread. Its colour is pale 
green with a yellowish tinge, with a purplish red line on each side of the 
head, darker lines down the middle both in front and behind, and with a 
yellowish stripe along the sides of the hinder segments. 
During the heat of summer the chrysalis state usually lasts about ten 
days. A day orso before the butterfly escapes the chrysalis becomes 
darker and semi-transparent, the markings on the wings showing plainly 
through the enclosing membrane. 
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME OF OUR 
BUTTERFLIES. 
BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 
I herewith send you some memoranda of what I have done during the 
past summer, largely owing to the assistance of Mr. Mead. I consider it 
my most successful season in the way of obtaining larve and eggs. One 
of the most interesting species we discovered was Lycaena pseudargiolus. 
Mr. Mead noticed a female hovering about flowers of <Actinomeris 
sguarrosa, which is a weed found hereabouts in company with 4. helian- 
thoides—the last being a thousand-fold most numerous—and suspecting 
that she was ovipositing, he made a careful examination of the plant. He 
found several eggs laid directly on the flowers; then capturing two or 
three of the females, he tied them in a muslin bag over a bunch of these 
flowers (growing), the result of which was that many eggs were obtained. 
From those in the bag a few caterpillars were hatched and finally brought 
to maturity. They fed on the petals of the flowers. It became difficult 
to obtain food for them, as no plant of A. sguarrosa could be found in 
the vicinity of my house, and we tried them on the other species (hel/ian- 
thoides), and this answered equally well. Last week the caterpillars that 
had escaped one accident or another, formed chrysalids in the same 
flower heads. In summer, as no species of Actinomeris is in bloom, the 
