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seems to be the Malpighia glabra X., common in our gar- 

 dens ; the cherries of which, called here chereese, or cerise, 

 from their acidity, are used only when preserved. They are 

 delicious when encrusted with a coat of white sugar, laid on 

 in the sun, by the help of the white of eggs. 



Plate 8. has the curiously armed larva, the pupa and rude 

 figures of Papilio Amphinom^ Fab. 404. The plant is the 

 Plumi^rm rubra L., whose sweetly scented flowers often cover 

 the whole tree before the restoration of its leaves. The tree 

 with v^^hite flowers is totally distinct, and is a common orna- 

 ment of our leeward and rocky coast. 



Plate 9. contains Papilio Nestor Fab. 266. Gmel. 2245. 

 The puparium is j'udely done, and the larva seems rather to 

 belong to some Sphinx or nocturnal moth, though it is said to 

 have produced the butterfly before us. The plant is the 

 pomegranate (Punica GranatumZy.)? with the fruit burst open, 

 and showing the pale sweet coat which protects the seeds; and 

 has all the glassy splendour of gems, so difficult to represent 

 on paper. 



Plate 10. Three rude figures of the larva, pupa, and imago 

 of Hesperia (Papilio) Cupido Fabr. 1. Gmel. 2336. ; a species 

 remarkable for the spots of burnished silver, of the greatest 

 brilliancy, on the inferior surface. The three lower figures 

 illustrate a pale-coloured moth of the size of Ceriira vinula, 

 not known to Fabricius. The cotton plant (Gossypium bar- 

 badense L. ?) is more than usually faithful. 



Plate 11. The two figures of the sexes of J56mbyx (Pha- 

 lae^ia) erythrinae Fahr. 13. Gmel. 2403., are neatly engraved, 

 with the pupa and exuviae. If one can depend on the 

 drawings of the larvae, and the accompanying statements, we 

 have here an extraordinary instance of the change which 

 takes place during the developement of the larva. I have 

 myself, as well as other observers, witnessed the disappear- 

 ance of spots, the alteration of colour, and the variations in 

 the clothing of caterpillars ; but have never noticed so great 

 changes as are here described. The yellow larva, at its first 

 moulting, exchanges its transverse bands for lateral spots ; 

 at the second, the six strong spines which defended the body 

 are laid aside, and the general colouring of the animal under- 

 goes a change. The plant is a most beautiful species of Ery- 

 thrina, not cultivated by us. 



Plate 12. We have the male, the larva, pupa, and cocoon 

 of an undetermined species of Saturni«, very nearly allied in 

 many respects to a beautiful species which I have lately 

 drawn in all its stages, for insertion in the costly zoological 

 work of my correspondent, Mr. Wilson of Edinburgh, under 



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