COLIAS II., III. 
the remainder of the upper surface irregularly specked with brown points, from 
each of which springs a white hair; head ob-ovate, granulated, dark-brown. 
(Fig. 6 , magnified.) To first moult three days. 
After first moult; length .12 inch; shape as before; the segments creased; 
the whole upper surface covered with minute whitish tubercles, which are black 
at their summits, and are disposed on the ridges so as to form both longitudinal 
and transverse rows; each tubercle giving a short hair; color dull green; under 
side and legs pale green; head black, shape as before. (Fig. c.) To second 
moult three days. 
After second moult; length .3 inch ; the body much as at last stage, but now 
blue-green, and showing a faint whitish lateral stripe; head pale green. (Fig. d.) 
To third moult four days. 
After third moult; length .7 inch; the principal change consists in the lateral 
stripe, which is now white and distinct, and usually shows a red, or orange, or 
yellow discoloration on the anterior segments ; sometimes black lunate spots 
appear beneath the stripe, on some of the segments, especially the second and 
third. (Fig. e., nat. size, e 2 magnified). To fourth moult four days. 
After fourth moult; length 1 inch; the stripe now incloses a crimson streak, 
sometimes broken into patches; there is most often an absence of black spots 
beneath the stripe, but many examples discover more or less of them up to a 
complete series, largest on the anterior segments. (Fig./.) In about three days 
after this moult the larva is full-grown, and prepares to change to chrysalis. 
(These observations were made at Coalburgh, W. Va.) 
Matuke Laeva. — Length 1.2 inch ; body cylindrical, tapering slightly 
from seventh to last segment, and from the fifth towards the head ; each segment 
creased four or five times transversely, the surface between the creases rising in 
rounded ridges, on which are arranged in rows fine whitish tubercles tipped with 
black, forming both longitudinal and transverse regular lines; each tubercle 
throwing out a short white hair ; color dark green, pale green on under side ; in 
line with the spiracles is a white or cream : white stripe from the front of second to 
the end of the twelfth segment, through the middle of which runs a streak of 
crimson, broken at the junction of the segments; frequently on the lower edge 
of this stripe is a row of lunate, black spots, large anteriorly and diminishing to 
a point on twelfth segment, the posterior half of the row often obsolete, even 
when the other spots are distinct; head smaller than second segment, ob-ovate, 
pale green, finely tuberculated, pilose, the mandibles and ocelli black. (Fig. g 
slightly magnified.) 
From fourth moult to chrysalis there is an interval of four or five days. Total 
from the egg to chrysalis about eighteen days in .midsummer. 
