328 General Notes. [ April, 
sometimes laid on-the stem, sometimes on the upper side of the 
leaf, and we repeat here the brief oe then made 
Sub-spherical, having a flattened base. Diameter The perer perfectly 
smooth and, when fresh, the color Bean wish ; wy as the cerry devels ops, the color 
deepens to reddish-brown. The general c olor r, however, more or less ferruginous, 
owing to the surface being coated with's guna my substance of this, cale or, whigh accu- 
pe ae in little translucent lumps more or less irregular, but generally Snealne 
about a dozen rib-like re from the crown. Spines of the embryo as it matures 
ead through _ Shell, Shell so delicate that it collapses in 8 gs soaked in 
cohol. The viscid covering is dissolved in alcohol or chloroform 
The rahe hatched larva strongly recalls some have: of Acro- 
nycta and also the young of Attacus. But it 
is structurally very similar to the first larval 
stage of our other North American Papilios, 
bee exceptions in other ibe Bs a 
giving an account of the larval changes, 
is of the pupa, expresses the opinion that 
€ species is a connecting one between . 
of Pa- Papilio and Ornithoptera. The bus 
pilio phitenor (after Riley). appears very early in the spring, and w 
have even known it to issue in mild weather.in November at St 
Louis. We further quote from our notes in regard to the newly- 
hatched larva: 
Length 2.3 mm. Ferruginous-brown, the head and legs black. ain rows of 
on 
small, black, a tubercles, — bearing — black hair as long as or longer 
than the diameter of the body; of the tu ey dorsal, and irapesoida on all 
j ints but second pag third, the trae —_ sed (Zz. ¢ the a anterior pai of tuber- 
cles wing, apart rt than the posterior pair) on the black aa polished bevicst shield. 
here is, besides, a oe and a ventral row of less conspicuous tubercles, gen- 
ar concolor with body and most prominent on the legless joints. On the ecco 
or gg day the outer row ee, dorsal tubercles increase in size and become paler at 
base, and this is i apache the case on prothoracic joint, 
Mr. Edwards describes in detail the larval changes, and shows 
that there are only four molts instead of five, as he formerly sup- 
posed, which accords with our own notes. e gave some 
1 Correspondence, edited by S. H. Scudder, pp. 147, 273. 
Harris’s Companion, p. 247. 
