LYCiENA II., III. 
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less brown in irregular patches (Figs.y to f c> ); head small, obovoid, dark brown, 
glossy, placed on the end of a long, conical neck, which can be thrust out to a 
length equal at least to the breadth of two of the body segments (Figs. P-i s ), and 
when withdrawn is, together with the head, completely within segment 2 ; color 
of neck blue-green. (Figs, i, i 4 .) The surface of the body is velvety, and this ap¬ 
pearance is owing to minute stellate glassy processes, scarcely raised above the 
surface, and only visible under a powerful magnifier, mostly six-rayed, and each 
sending up from the centre a filament which is a little longer than one of the 
rays; these stars are arranged in pretty regular rows, and are light except when 
on brown ground, in that case brown; but in the fall larvse the stars on brown 
ground are observed to be sometimes pink. (Fig. n.) On 11 near the posterior 
edge, on middle of dorsum, is a transverse wavy slit, in an oval raised rim, out of 
which, at the will of the larva, is protruded slightly an ovoid green membrane 
(Fig. k) ; and on 12, back of and outside the stigmata, is a mark like a stigma 
on either side, but a little larger; from this, also at will, may proceed a mem¬ 
branous cylinder, the top rounded, truncated, and turned in, but which, when 
fully expanded, displays a crown of tentacles. (Figs, in— m 2 .) 
Before pupation, the larva sometimes changes color to pink, and from pink to 
brown, or becomes brown without the pink stage; others retain their natural 
hues, but these fade. From fourth moult to pupation, 5 or 6 days. 
Chrysalis. — 5 from eggs of Violcicea: average length, .263 inch; breadth 
across mesonotum, .0916 inch; across abdomen, .123 inch. 
27 from eggs of Pseudavgiolus : average length, .ol8 inch; breadth acioss me^o- 
notum, .119 inch; across abdomen, .159 inch. 
25 from eggs of Neglecta of July: average length, .298 inch ; breadth across meso¬ 
notum, .1 inch; across abdomen, .14 inch. 
3 from eggs of Neglecta of September : average length, .293 inch; breadth across 
mesonotum, .1 inch; across abdomen, .136 inch. 
The ventral side straight, the dorsal rounded, and evenly, except for a slight 
depression below mesonotum, the abdomen broad and high; head case nanow, 
rounded at top; mesonotum somewhat prominent, rounded ; color dark brown or 
yellow-brown, varying; the Aving cases dark, and sometimes green-tinted ; on ab¬ 
domen two sub-dorsal rows of blackish dots, and sometimes a medio-dorsal dark 
line from end to end (Figs, g, Pseudavgiolus , h, Violacea , nat. size); surface 
covered with short fine hairs. (Fig. g 1 .) Duration of this stage, in the biood 
from Violacea, in the only instance in which a butterfly has emerged, 24 days, 
most of the chrysalids hibernating; in the brood from Neglecta of July, 10 and 
11 days, with irregular disclosure for some weeks after, most chrysalids liibei- 
nating. 
