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LYCLENA II., III. 
hronnh^ 8, fl^ 11 WGre obtained b Y confining a female butterfly over a 
bianch m flower. After that, there was no difficulty in finding both eLTand 
caterpillars The former are laid singly, low down on the side of a floweret and 
usually well within the flower head. As so.on as hatched, the youn.“larva eu ta a 
minute hole, the diameter of its head, into the lower part of the unopened bud 
. 111 , above tne calyx, and feeds upon the filaments of the stamens. After its first 
moult, it bores into the side of the calyx to get at the ovules; but as the flowers 
• tore and the ovary hardens, the boring is from the top, inside the tube of the 
calyx, and follows the stalk of the pistil to the ovule. Finally, belated lari 
are compelled to gnaw the seed vessel after it has become woody, and in sever'd 
instances have been found eating the stem below the flower. It is not\musua 
f the in confinement to eat of the white involucre of the flower but I 
IdvenTem Ift, *** 1 ? 1 ** ^ when 110 other food hL been 
f , ’ S tllQ eggs laid wben tlle flowers of Cornus are in bud produce 
ih ' i "” “• - ■*” - 
tl,o„ d l " 0t k fi 0W ° f a,1 T 0ther f00d P ,ant for the winter brood than Cornus 
ough m confinement the larvae have eaten the flowers of Begonia, Nasturtium’ 
and Asc ep,as; also Clover blossoms, but not readily, and fences confited over 
C ver have refused to lay eggs on it. The larva, on Cornus, in their laterIttes 
,. y °! ca y ! n color and markings, having more or less green, either lio-ht°or 
dull, with white, brown, and crimson. But in the younger sta^ they are much 
t le color of the flowers they feed on, and are thus in some degree protected from 
then- numerous enemies, spiders, hemiptera, etc. In confinement? whited l 
they do into Ti o« °“ ° ther ’ bUn ' 0 ' Ving int0 Ule b ° dy in the sa ”« way 
Follow mg Vtolacea, and flying at the same time with the latter half of that 
consTderabl’y” tha Iar S est of the series, and differing 
consicieiably Irom Violacea m general appearance 
weed Vw I f° bSei ' Ved " female ° £ this form hovering about a stalk of Rattle- 
weed Cimicfuga racemosa, which was in bud, and this suggested the confining 
in abundance. Tta £ 1,17,'“',“ “J l ”” >**» found 
of five or siv Wi l T ( S \ ’ Ly °' HI) sends U P a stalk to the height 
from eio-ht to i anc un S more or less, and each branch terminates in a spike 
!n rew? The r T 168 r S> bearing r °™ d ’ g^-wWte buds, arranged 
base to ton tli^ '^l uds . mature . first ’ and the flowering proceeds slowly from 
11 ,\ \ 10 6 Pen ° d laStln ° at Ieast six weeks. The eggs are usually 
' ld on the buds, and the young larva bores into the side, and gradually eats the 
contents, till a mere shell is left; then moves to a fresh bud, and so'on 
