LYCiENA II., III. 
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If there happen to be three or four larvae on one stalk, by the time they are 
mature the buds are nearly all drilled. The small larval head is set on the end 
of a long, extensile neck. (Fig. f 3 .) The hole eaten is just large enough to ad¬ 
mit the head, and as the larva feeds the second segment is pressed hard against 
the bud, so as to permit the utmost elongation of the neck. By this means the 
interior of the bud is wholly excavated. The second larval segment has its top 
elevated, compressed, and bent forward, and at all stages, when the larva is at 
rest, the head is withdrawn into this segment and quite concealed. (Figs, i, i\) 
Immediately following Pseudargiolus comes Neglecta, flying in June, from 
about the first of the month, and is on the wing four or five weeks. This form 
is smaller than Pseudargiolus, but in general appearance is not essentially differ¬ 
ent from it, and is therefore unlike Violciceci. But though so similar, these two 
forms are distinct in origin, Neglecta certainly in some degree, and probably 
altogether, being in direct descent from Violacea of April. Both these forms 
are represented by a comparatively small number of individuals. 
After these June Neglecta have passed away, at intervals through the sum¬ 
mer and fall to October, a few individuals which might be either Pseudargiolus 
or Neglecta, for aught that appears, differing in size, though none are so large 
as the average Pseudargiolus of May, here and there are seen. But there is no 
general brood. These late butterflies lay eggs on Actinomeris squarrosa (Fig. 
3, Lyc. III.), and probably somewhat on A. helianthoides, one or the other of 
which is in flower for many weeks. I have also found a mature caterpillar on 
the imported shrub Dimorphantus Mantchuricus, eating the flower buds. 
The first clew to the history of any of these forms was through the fall butter¬ 
flies, Mr. T. L. Mead, here at Coalburgh, in 1873, having noticed a female Neg¬ 
lecta ovipositing on A. squarrosa. On being shut in a bag over the plant it laid 
many eggs. But the chrysalids proceeding from these eggs died during the win¬ 
ter. From others, obtained from larvae from same plant the next year, there 
emerged three Violacea in February, 1875. Again, in March, 1882, two Viola¬ 
cea came from similar chrysalids. 
On all the plants, when the larvae are ready to pupate, they fall to the 
ground, and doubtless conceal themselves under sticks and stones. The mature 
larvae will drop at the slightest jar, though when younger they cling firmly. 
Such, then, are the generations of this species at Coalburgh. In other locali¬ 
ties not much has been observed, or at least made known. In June, 1878, Prof. 
J. H. Comstock, at Ithaca, N. Y., sent me several larvae on flowers of Viburnum 
acerifolium, which probably came from eggs of Neglecta. At London, Ontario, 
Mr. Wm. Saunders found larvae on Dogwood, 12th July, and five of them gave 
Neglecta butterflies. Mr. Saunders relates that, on food failing, he gave the 
