44 TIIE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. P. Turnus J, both sides-tl're pale variety ; caterpillar and chrysalis. 3. Pieris Arali, sulrlner fornt Acadica Edlv., z figs. " 4. \ianessa Arttiofa lt aa " L\[i/ltu.tii a\ l( 6. Pl.rarreis Atd.l(t./tt (t t! tl 7. '( Cordui t! a( 8. Crurorryrnpha Inorttatt., Edsv. (( 9. Chionobas Cah.is. Scud., $ . Under side only. ro. Chrysoplranrrs E1:ixcttt/tc. Bois. z figs. II, Lycaena Atlui/0, Boi.s. .l I2. " Cotqleri, Gr:ote, .. " Asler. l)dtv. .l 'I'he hgures of c. htorttttt. agree with the type specimenof the butter- fly fro'-r Lalie lvinrripeg. I have also four examfles taken at St. John's, Netfoundland, ir.r r88o, b1' 1,1r. 1'. L. Mead. I have seen this species from no locality betrveen Winnipeg and the island. Chjon. c'alais rvas rlescribed fr:orn a single fe'rale fro'r Rupert r{ouse, H.dson's Bay, a'd to this day r have 'ot seen another example. I for- rnerly thonght it rvas the same as Cb.. chry*zs, Doubl., but am satisfied of its distinctness. 'l'iris admirable figLrre by NIr. Gosse is unmistakably the likeness of cttlais, t-l.rich like rnornata, is thus found in localities thousands of miles apart. Lyc. Aster'.as taken by tr{r.. Nlead at St. Joh''s, and I have not seen it froil localities outside Nervfoundland. Lyc. couperi lvas taken by IIr. wm. couper on Anticosti, and is also found in Sor.rth Labrador. W. H. Eowanos. Coalburgh, \\'. \'a., r8th l)ec., r882. NO'I'ES ON BL]'fTERI'LIES OBI'AINED AT CARBONEAR ISLANT). NE\\rl'OLINDLAND, r83z_r835. Paprlo l:lRl\ilcAL,-D.\r S,q.uxD. j ANI) l.fs 'I'neNslclnltatIoNs. [Extracts from jorrnals, kept by P. H. Gosse, at Carbonear, New- foundland, in r834 lnd rE35.1 r834, LLly 25.- -l --\ i'riur11, -\ ll., caught for me an exaluple of the THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. +D Black Swallor,vtail,* in torn condition, on Car.bonear. fsla'd, :r high rocky islet, about a mile in length, l1.ing off the mouth of the harbor, uninhabited, uncultivated, partly covered l.ith bushes-visitcd occasionally for summer. picnics. 'I'his is my first cabinet sPeciner ; b't I hacl possessed an old rubbed and patched speciilen lr'hich had been captured in the same locality several years before I began to collect. July 3r.--I made a r-isit rvith A. E., to Carbonear Island. We salv immense numbers of the little Orange-broivn Rr-rtterfly (the Cenonymp/ta f,gured o1r page zz of my Entom. of Netvfoundland, 4to), and rnany of the Polyomntatus (Argus of Ibid, p. ,3).t After searching the lsland, in vain, for a Swallowtail, rve were just going dorvn to our boat, rvhen I caught sight of a great black fellorv fluttering over a bed of tansy. I ran towards him, bnt I had to look about some tirne before I could f,nd my beauty, for he had now alighted, and rvas so f'earless that he did not attempt to fly, but continued sr.rcking the aromatic florvers, I threu' my net over him, and found I had secured a specimen much more perfect than my former acquisition. Aug. 8.--X,Iy neighbor, X,Ir. Peters, gave lrre a beautiful caterpillar, which had beeu feeding on par-snip in his garden, and a fer,v hours later he sent me another (No" z), yolrnger. l'hey are of a clear appie-green 'ltand hue, each segment marked by a black transverse of velvet-black, car- rying five spots of bright yellorv. Each segment is also separated from its fellows by a narrower line of black. I i'eel confident they are the larve of one of the Swallorvtails. The No. z protruded, and instantly retracted, a soft red organ from its neck. Aug. 9.-I observed the orange-colored organ of the neck much farther projected I it rvas then forked, in form of a Y ; it left a lyetness o1t rny finger, and diffused a strong odor of parsnip. Aug. rr.-I am convinced that the Y-organ of the r.reck is rised as a defence I for, olr my touching the siile of t1.re caterpitlar-the lelt side, for instance-it would jerk its head round to the place, and protrude the left branch of tlre forked horn ; if I touched the right side, the right branch rvotrld be protmded ; the otier branch, on cach occasion, being hei\t url- 'fl-re dis/la1ted, rvhile a strong fetor rvas nanife-st" caterpillar No. r has moulted to-day. " Papilio brezticauda, Satncl. 't Lyr. Aster, E,dw. 46 THE CANAI]IAN XNTOMOI,OGIST. ALig. r6.-The younger (No. z.) molrlted. 'Ihere is a marked differ- in the coloring of the trvo exatlples. 'I'his rine has the ye1lol' spots cir- cular in or.rtline, atrcl cluite insnlatccl, centrally, on the black bands ; but No. r lras the spots of obJon$ sha1.ie, and placed uloit t/tc frottt edg'e of the blach lrands. itttcrrtrptirrg it. Aug. zr.-In Peters'garclen I found, ol the parsttip leaves, two nore Sl,allorvtail caterpillals, larger than my largest (Nos. 3 and 4). Ar-rg. zz.-tr'Iy No. r is hanging, back dorvnrvard, from the roof of its cage, a silken band round its bodt', and its tail fastetled to a knob of rvhite silk. In tl.re evetring No. 3 suspends itself jr"r like manner. ALrg. 23.-'l'his morning I was so fortutlate es to see the process of No. 4 putting the aiready spun silken girth over his head, and adjusting it around his shoulders. Aug. zr1.-No. r l'ettt into chrysalis during the foreuoon. It is large arrd ror.rgh of surface, of a yellorvish pink hue, green in some parts' marked rvith a broad streak of sooty brorvn dorvn the back. and one down each side of the abdomen. Aug. 25.-'I'his rnolning l sarv that No. 3 had already.become a chry- s:rlis. About 51-r. m., l rvitnesscd, rr'ith great pleasrtre, tlie rvhole Process of tl.re evolution of auothet chrl'salis, rny No' 4-the one r'hon I had seen pr.lt on his necktie. 'I'his caterpillar appe:rring tlneasy and restless' I watchecl it at intervals 1br about half an hour I rvhen, by strong and ap- parently painful distension of the part, a slit rvas tnacle in the skin, down the back of the third ring. 'I'hror.rgh this the soft chrysalis forced itself, gradnally ertending the siit tqlzaartls, till the head rvas divided and separated 1 and also dozrtnuards, for sevetal rings' length. The skin was now gradu:rlly pushed doivr.r. I had been curious to see horv the creatnre would get through this part of the business, for its rveight pressed the silken girtl'r very tigl't ar-ountl t1-re body. 'I'here seemed, ltowever, no real cliflrcult1'; I thouglit it kept itsel! by tluscular effort, from pressing its rvhole I'eigirt on the girth ut.rtil t1're skin had passed the part. As soon as it rvas pushed do$-n to the extrelrii:y, tl.re tail of the chrysalis rvas t]rrttst out beneath, very- cleverly, al]cl pu,rhed up\\.ard to take hold of the little knob of silk. When this rvas done, the old $'rinkled skin rvas jerked off, and cast aivay, by the rvrithing of the pupa. I'i-re silken girth rvas nolv encircling the bocly, betl,een the sixth and seventh rings ; but the chrysalis trvistecl ancl ttLrnecl, till it got the girth thlcc rirlgs nearer the head, natnely, TIIE CANAIJ]AN IINTOMOI,OGISI]. 47 across the middlc of the u'ing-c<ivers. 'rhe sl<in \ras as yet so soft, and the silk so slender, that it cut into the .r,ving.661'ers, so far as to be in, visible ; but, as all tly specimens are alike ir-r this respect, I presume it is no other than natural. The shape of each ivas diffcrent, immediately on expulsion, frorl rvhat it ltecame after some hours I the fore parts heing arvkrvardly shortened ancl shrivelled, arid the hincl rvings. stretched out. Aug. 27.-Caterpillar No. z finished his girth, and put it over his head, abor.rt 8 a. m., atrd so is suspended. Aug. 3o.-1'his No. 2 went into pupa in the early morning, ln this case when the skin rvas stripped dorvn, the tail rvas not put out to take hold of the silken knob ; and, by and by, the old skin loosed. its hold of the silk, and the chrysalis rvas. srvinging about, suspendecl only by the girth. I proceeded carefully to assist natr.rre by removing the old. skin, and put- ting the tail to the silk, of rvhich its projecting poi'ts now took firm hold. The girth, however, remains bett'een the sixth and seventh rings, so as to cause the ibre parts to hang do''vrr considerably. In shape it resmbles the other three ; but in color it is widely differenr, being *'holly of a bright yellowish green, except a rvide ba'd of pale yello*- dorv' the back. This individual is the one rvhich, as a larva, had the peculiarity of the yelorv spots, rvhich r noticed on the r6th inst., and from both circumstances, r fully expect the imago to be of a different species from the others.