APATURA I. 
“i“ l0r yeIl0 7' green dorsalI y’ blue-green on the sides; the whole surface 
° ’ ° l Wm , g t0 mmute tubercles on the sides and larger and irregular 
nts oil le act; these last arranged in transverse rows, separated by deep 
XT’ ir , f r °' VS *° each 011 either »<£ of the dorsum 
pale s le "on 7 h™ 7 *° ^ ° f *“» and between these * less distinct 
mint ft ’ f J . 1S S6t an ° Val yeIl0W s P ot on the «uterior end of each seg¬ 
ment ; often this stripe is wanting, and the yellow spots only appear; on the 
Ind Ls b, 7 Wa 7 ! ine and an iufra-stigmatal straight line; under side 
with mi , Ue g . reCn ’ head sub-quadrate, longer than broad, punctate, covered 
U.th innute tubercles, green, with four pale vertical stripes upon the front- 
short'tp eS ""I " br T ^ h ° mS SmaU ’ y e P ow -green, each furnished with two 
l e inid lie‘T , P T SS ’ W f ai ' e tipped With br0Wn > 0ther smal > P~ngs about 
6 . la ‘ dd ‘ e , 0f tbe horns and at base, and along the top of the head, and three 
at sides of head (Figs, g, g\) Duration of the larval stage about twenty days. 
flie hybernating arvrn at maturity differ from those described above princi¬ 
pally in ha the yellow spots of the dorsum have disappeared, and given place 
o a longitudinal yellow line, making three similar lines on a dark grefn "round 
he inner edges of the two exterior lines being whitish; the color of the whole 
body is greenish-yellow. (Fig./*.) 
Chktsalis. — Length .85 inch; compressed laterally; the outline of the 
under side convex regular; the abdomen prominent dorsally, much arched, 
clublxd 7 6dge ° f 6aCh Segment 011 the keel Produced, and 
clubbed (Fig. y) and marked on either side by a shining black dot; the last 
gment terminating in a long bifurcated pad of hooklets (Fig.A.); the thoracic 
segments depressed at an angle of forty-five degrees from tlm end of the keel 
,ic sides excavated in the direction of base of wing; mesonotum angular 
rounded somewhat at summit; the head case produced, sub-conic, the palpi cases 
prominent pointed; color either delicate yellow-green or blue-green finely 
specked with pale yellow over the whole surface; the neuration of the wings 
f rk t ! 7 y 7- 6 PaSSCS a, ° ng the keel and to the “esonotum, at which it 
, ‘ L P ‘? P ’ cases; an °lber passes along the posterior edge of the wing 
case, and is joined by an undulating line upon the side of the abdomen. Dura- 
tfiTrty-one days^ 6 ' ^ ‘° ** ^ ™ ■* * -ago about 
, 5 eVera i° f 7 IarVfe ° f the first summer brood raised by me, in 1873, stopped 
ic mg a er the second moult, and commenced their hybernation. Some com- 
1 used themselves on the leaves in the glass in which they were kept others di- 
silk. The color of these larvae soon changed to brown, in which was to be seen, 
