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slender, and is sometimes entirely wanting. I have raised 

 the Progne and Comma butterflies from caterpillars wliicli 

 were so much alike, that I am not certain to which of them 

 the following description belongs. These caterpillars were 

 found on the American elm in August; they were pale 

 yellow, -ndth a reddish-colored head, white "branching spines 

 tipped with black, and a row of four rusty spots on each side 

 of the body. They were suspended on the 21st and 22d 

 of August, changed to chrysalids within twenty-four hours, 

 and were transformed to butterflies sixteen days afterwards. 

 At another time, a Progne butterfly was obtained from a 

 caterpillar, which I neglected to describe, on the 18th of 

 August, the chrysalis state having continued only eleven 

 days. The chrysalis is brownish gray, with silvery spots on 

 the back, a short, thick, and rounded nose-like prominence 

 on the thorax, and two conical double-pointed horns or 

 ears on the head, the outer points very short, and the inner 

 ones longer and curving inwards. 



Vanessa Mlberti* Godart. Milbert's Butterfly. (Fig. 125.) 



Black above, with a broad orange-red band near the 

 „. ,„, hinder margin of all the 



Fig. 125. _ p 



wings, behind which on 



the hind wings is a row 



of pale blue crescents ; 



fore wings with a small 



white spot near the tips, 



and two orange-red spots 



near the middle of the 



front edge ; under side 



deep brown, with a pale band near the extremity of the 



wings, and no metallic characters on the hinder pair. 



Expands from 2^ to 2| inches. 



This showy butterfly is rare in the vicinity of Boston, but 



* This is the Vanessa furcillata of Mr. Say; but Godnrt's name has the priority 

 in point of time. 



