LEMONIAS I. 
peach and wild cherry. On 22d, it was evident that the cherry had been nib¬ 
bled at, but only one caterpillar was living, and that died two days later. 
On 26th July, came another lot of eggs and larvae from Mr. Doll. They had 
been twelve days on the road, in the mail, in tin box, with Mesquit leaves. There 
were half a dozen eggs unhatched, several caterpillars but lately out, and some 
were in the act of emerging from round holes at the middle of the depressed 
tops. I put these caterpillars in a glass with wild cherry leaves only, as the 
former ones seemed to have eaten cherry a little, but in course of the next three 
or four days one after another died, not liking the food. When but two were 
left, I tried wild plum, giving the tenderest terminal leaves, and at last had hit 
upon the right plant. One leaf had been dropped upside down into the glass, 
and next day its edges were stitched to a leaf it had fallen upon, and they were 
somewhat drawn together. Twenty-four hours later the upper leaf was quite 
closed up, so that I had to slit one side of it to get a view of the tenant, which was 
resting on the midrib, and had made for itself a thick bed of silk. It had not 
eaten the leaf which concealed it, but another at a little distance, so that it must 
have come completely forth to feed. Two days later, on again slitting the leaf, 
I could see that the neck of the caterpillar waas swollen, — sure sign of an ap¬ 
proaching moult. The moult was discovered to have taken place aftei another 
interval of two days, and the caterpillar was moving about. For the present it 
rested on the midrib of a fresh leaf in full view, but on the third day it stitched 
the edges together slightly, and retired. Just then I was compelled to leave 
home, returning on 23d, and left my subject in charge of a member of my family. 
It was reported healthy, and the day I returned closed up the hitherto open end 
of its leaf, and was seen no more, and evidently did not come out to feed till aftei 
the 27th, on which day it passed the second moult. On 5th September, it had 
covered itself within a leaf, both edges of which rested on the side of the glass, 
and had fastened them to the glass, so that from the outside I had a good view. 
On 9th, I saw it at a distance from its nest, and same day caught it retreating 
into it. On 11th, it passed the third moult. Soon after, I sent this caterpillar to 
Mrs. Peart, in Philadelphia, by express, in its glass jar, for a portrait. The dis¬ 
tance is about six hundred miles, and the package was three days in reaching its 
destination. On 21st, I received the caterpillar again, quite uninjured by the 
journey, and by six days of close confinement. It was concealed when it reached 
me, and two days later it passed the fourth and last moult. Three days later, it 
again went to Philadelphia, for another portrait, and there remained till pupation. 
This occurred 9th October, and the imago came from chrysalis 11th November, a 
female, rather smaller than the average of the free females, but fully as large as 
any male. So that it had not been much affected by change of climate and food, 
confinement and travel. 
