LIMENITIS II. 
Witifekl has taken it as early as 25th March; also from 11th to 17th May from 
o i to 30th June, on 8th July, and at several dates during the fall He ob- 
sened a female ovipositing in the early part of November, 1882. In October 
ptecediiig he had picked several eggs off willow, and from these, between 14th 
"ri ’ f ' ' ovember > obtamed el S hfc hybernacula, constructed after second moult, 
nhile four of the caterpillars went on to chrysalis. On December 11th a butter 
ly emerged another 19th, and two others later in the month. On 18th January, 
the loth 6 T TuT" 3 V * Ca " le from itS Case > and P**ed a moult on 
9th. Its period of hybernation, therefore, was about sixty days. The winter 
Dr W ttH H “ /‘I an<J ml ' d ’ an<3 P1 '° bab '- y tbe late bll tterflies live through it, as 
-Wittfeld has taken young caterpillars Q f Eros, not yet at their second stage 
in January. These must have come from eggs laid in that month. Limenitis Ur¬ 
sula larvae bred by Mr. Uhlricli, of Tiffin, Ohio, discovered a habit similar to 
]. 1 », some late larvae making cases, while part went on to chrysalis and butter- 
On the it!" T°\ T* e r ate bUtterflieS certain 'y wo " ld " ot Slu ' v ‘ v e the winter 
0 the other hand, I have never known late larvae of Disippus to go on to 
cirysahs. Dr. Wittfeld is of the opinion that there are at least four broods of 
in os larvae during the year; and I can well believe this to be so, as Disippus has 
three annual broods here, at Coalburgh, and that between June and November 
In three instances, eggs obtained by confining the females in bags over willow 
were sent me by mail; the first arriving in 1880, 20th July. They werlffine 
days on he road, in tin box, but at six days, the box was opened tMaZi 
Georgia, by Prof. Jno. E. Willet, and fresh leaves supplied. The larva,Tad 
emerged from the eggs before Professor Willet examined them, and whin thel 
a ° T me ’ tbe lar S® st had P a ^ed second moult. In 1881, 24th June, I received 
s veral larva, from Dr. Wittfeld, this time by way of Cambridge, Mass., wTre 
Ii. Scudder had had consideration for them and fed them. Some of these were 
Tq S U f m °, ’ ° therS Stage followi »«> - ten in all. Finally, on 4th Au¬ 
gust, 1881, four larva, came direct to me, in five days from Indian River, and of 
these two were lately out of egg. So that I have been able to examine every 
l.uval stage, and Mrs. Peart has made drawings of all ^ 
In habits these larva, are precisely like both Arihemis and Disippus, as related 
... this \ o ume (under Arthemis). They make at once, after leaving the e J 
perches ot the midribs of the leaves they feed on (Fto. b) lengthen and stiff fn 
the perches by binding on with silk morsels of chewed leaf,’ so that their slender 
esting-places do not curl up, or bend; on these they live, except when they go 
to the near edges of the leaves to feed; they make little packets of bits of leaf 
winch are held together and fixed to the perch near its base by silk, and push 
< IK ci.ig ltse packets back as the substance of the leaf is eaten. (The object 
