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three of the caterpillars perished, but the remaining seven throve 

 and were in due time transferred to a branch standing in a bottle of 

 water. The mouth of the bottle was plugged with cotton wool, but 

 two of them forced their way in arid committed suicide. By a 

 prompt use of the means recommended by the Humane Society for 

 the restoration of persons apparently drowned, one was revived, but 

 continued weakly, and was soon after killed by ants. 



Five passed successfully through all dangers and became beauti- 

 ful specimens, one female and four males. (This is one of the butter- 

 flies of which we rarely find females.) All through their lives these 

 larvae continued gregarious, dispersing occasionally to feed, but 

 always returning to rest side by side on the upper surface of a leaf. 

 The following dates may be interesting. Eggs laid, 2nd August ; 

 hatched, 7th August; skins cast ( and eaten ), 12th August ; again, 

 17th August ; again, 20th to 22nd August. The most advanced cast 

 its skin again on the 28th of August, became a pupa on the 2nd of 

 September, and emerged on the 15th of September. The others fol- 

 lowed within two clays. At first the larvae' were of an oily yellow 

 colour, and bore many pairs of spiny points, but these disappeared 

 with age, and after the last moult there were only the short fleshy 

 processes on the 2nd and last segment which characterise the group, 

 and one additional curved pair on the ninth segment. 



The colour after the last moult was a clear slaty blue, changing 

 eventually to a greenish tint, with light brown markings very much 

 the same as those which characterise the rest of the group. The pupa 

 was more abruptly bent back from the middle of the thorax than that 

 of P. critho)iius, and adorned on the thorax with a sword-shaped horn, 

 fully f of an inch long, and always bent a little either to the right 

 or left. The colour was brown, or green and yellow, according to 

 situation. 



The Dissimilis Guorr. 



76. Vaplio //hs.siij/t'lix, or panopc, Linnaeus. 



These, or rather, this species (for there is no question now of 

 their identity) constitutes a group by itself. The larva is not unlike 

 those of the Oriiit/wptera group in form, having similar rows of 

 fleshy processes ; but it is by far the handsomest PapUio larva we 



