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serve her as a foothold, and putting the box in a hand-grip carried it 

 home, a distance of 900 miles, and with stops taking five and a-half days. 

 Upon reaching home I opened the box, gave Leto sun and air, then fed 

 her with sweetened water, then put her in gauze bag in the open window 

 without any plant in sight or other thing which could remind her of the 

 home she had left so far behind, and she lived several days and gave me 

 a nice lot of fertile eggs. This Leto was not fractious, but as she had 

 been shut up in a dark box nearly a week it could hardly be called a fair 

 test. Z^/(7, of all Argynnids, is a strong and tireless flyer, vigorous and 

 full of life and activity, and seldom at rest. It is, therefore, but reason- 

 able to suppose that they would rebel if confined. I have had other ? 

 Letos in confinement, but out in the open country, and unattended, so 

 that I could not watch them. 



Coenonymphas are very gentle and tractable. They worry but little, 

 and remain very quiet. As the eggs mature and become ready to deposit 

 they are stuck on to the gauze singly, adhering rather firmly. These 

 eggs are rather small, but are safely taken in a coarse netted bag, as they 

 are coated with a glutinous substance, by which they adhere at once to 

 any fibre, and so do not fall away and get lost. The greatest difficulty 

 I have had with Ctenonymphas is in the matter of shade. A little too 

 much shade and she will not lay her eggs ; a little too much sun and she 

 incontinently dies. A piece of thin muslin makes a better shade than a 

 leafy twig. 



• One would think from the Ornithoptera-like shape of the wings of 

 Chionobas that they were of rapid flight, wild, and generally unreasonable. 

 But such is not the case. They are very gentle, flying about but little, 

 and usually returning to the spot they started from, where they settle 

 down again slowly and deliberately. I have found C. Gigas to be easily 

 handled in captivity, and have got eggs without difficulty. In the interior 

 of Vancouver Island I took a $ upon the top of a high hill, and immedi- 

 ately put her in a bag and laid it down on the grass by the side of a big 

 rock where it would be sheltered from the cold wind, and with no shade 

 from the sun, as it was not hot at that height, and did not go to it again 

 for thirty-six hours. Then, when I went to it I was delighted to see some 

 eggs sticking to the gauze. I could not remain any longer, nor could I 

 return another day. So I took a small tin box and carefully put the bag, 

 insect, eggs and all together in it and tied it to my belt for safety in going 

 away through several miles of dense thicket, and so carried it to my hotel, 



