LIMENITIS I. 
Alter second moult: Length, .24 inch; in shape and markings much as at the 
last stage, but the principal ridges are more elevated and all the processes more 
prominent; those of 3, 12, and 13 now largest; on 13 are four, two at the ex¬ 
treme end and directed back so as to fQrm a bifid tail, from the base of which 
rise two smaller similar ones at an angle of about forty-five degrees; the dorsal 
patch bull, and extended partly over 7 and 9; the basal ridge buff on last three 
segments; color of body, blackish-brown, the ends of the processes and tubercles 
generally lighter; the larger processes on 3 are not crowned as before, but 
the upper half is covered with knobs; head nearly as before, the face black, 
the upper part and side yellow-brown, with tubercles. (Fig. d , magnified.) 
Five days after second moult (length .4 inch) each larva had begun to make 
its case or hybernaculum, and three days later all had entered into them. 
The first larva left its case the 29th March following, at Coalburgh, fed a 
little, rested, and after two days passed third moult. 
Alter third moult: length .44 inch; general color red-brown, somewhat 
specked and mottled with black, especially at the junction of the segments, the 
processes ferruginous-red or partly castaneous; segments 2 to 4 yellowish, in¬ 
clining to buff; on dorsum of 3 is a clear buff, smooth, elevated cross ridge, 
exca\ated on summit, and giving out at each corner an irregular, compound 
knobbed appendage, .05 inch long, and wholly red ; between these, in line, two 
small ciested tubercles ; on 4 is a narrow and low ridge on which are four red 
tubercles, the two at the ends largest, and all crested with red knobs; 5 has a 
still smaller ridge with little red tubercles, and closely resembles 10 ; on 6 are 
two large mammilloid processes, which occupy the whole ridge, and are castane¬ 
ous, with fine concolored crests; 8 is immaculate, yellowish, except low down 
the sides, where it is encroached on by the brown color; 7 and 9 have the dorsal 
P ai 8, but both are specked with red and a little black ; on these three 
segments aie fine concolored and crested tubercles dorsally; segments 10 to 13 
<u e led-biown, the latter mottled with black ; on 11 are two small processes, on 
12 two larger, on lo two quite prominent, directed backward; these last are 
black vith red knobs, and at base of each rises a small upright process; in ad¬ 
dition to the tubercles on the dorsum, are small ones on sides of nearly all seg¬ 
ments ; the basal ridge is brown in the middle segments, but after 10 gray-buff, 
making a distinct band of that color which widens posteriorly ; head obovate, 
narrow, high, the sides well rounded, the top deeply cleft with a broad suture 
down the face ; the vertices high and pointed, its whole surface covered with 
simple lounded or conical tubercles; those on the vertices rather more promi¬ 
nent than elsewhere, and those at back and sides long, conical, and separated; 
coloi ot lower face and ot the sides of face up to the vertices blackish, the upper 
