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took »ji the study of the bntterfly eggs, and published some short but highly 

 important notes on them in 1886. Doherty says of the egg of the " Charaxinae " 

 (Joiirn. As. Soc. Bcriff. LV. 2. p. 109): "Eggs large, few, globular, havd, not so 

 high as broad, with obscure ribs and cross-lines at the base onl)-, forming (usually) 

 tetragons, with minute projecting points at their intersection." For " base " should 

 be read " apex." We have examined the eggs of a number of species, taken from 

 the bodies of dry specimens. Apart from size, there is no ayiparent difference in 

 the eggs of the various species. The micropyle end is flattened, slightly concave, 

 with the centre raised; from the centre radiate slight ribs, which gradnally disapjjear 

 at the sides and do not reach the base or underside; the longitudinal ribs are con- 

 nected by extremely feeble transverse ridges, and bear, as Doherty correctly points 

 ont, small projecting points, which are easily visible under a good lens. 



The slug-shaped caterpillar is widest iu or before the middle, narrowed behind, 

 and has a finely granulated skiu. The head is flat, prognathous, and bears four 

 processes which point backwards and are rough with tubercles, as is the hinder edge 

 of the head between the processes ; cheeks also tubercalated ; the anal segment 

 bears dorsally two more or less prominent processes, which are longer in the young 

 larva than in the full-grown one. The colour of the larvae is generally green, often 

 yellowish, the head bears, on each side, a light line which runs along the outer horn, 

 and there is a spot on one or more abdominal segments, the colour of these latter 

 markings, which are mostly more or less halfmoon-shaped, is as a rule huffish, the 

 spots having often a darker (reddish or bluish) border. The caterpillar is a very 

 slow creature, which does not voluntarily leave the twig on a leaf of which the egg 

 was deposited. Of CA. jason it is known that the larva makes on the surface of the 

 leaf on which it feeds a kind of web which serves for a foot-hold. The larva is 

 known of C/i. polyxena, psaphon, fabius, etiieocles, brutus, mranes, cithaeron jasoit. 

 The thick chrysalis is bright green as a rule, very smooth and shining, dorsally 

 very convex; head bluntly bipartite ; end of abdomen with two rounded tubercles 

 ventrally. 



The imago of most species is robust, and has a powerful flight. The antenna 

 is gradually thickened to a club ; the last four segments are much shorter dorsally 

 than ventrally, the tip of the club appears, therefore, when looked at from the side, 

 rounded ventrally. The number of segments varies in the different species from 

 44 to 5G, and is also individually not quite constant. The last 15 to 18 segments 

 are broader than long, the preceding ones longer than broad, and the proximal 

 segments again broader than long. The three ventral carinae are prominent ; the 

 deep grooves between them extend from the base to the apex of each segment, the 

 proximal ones excepted. The sensory hairs are dispersed over the groove, but are 

 more dense in the middle of each groove, forming here a rounded or oblong jiatch. 

 The basal pair of setae, characteristic of the Nijmjihalid'tr (see Nov. Zqol. V. p. 390), 

 is well developed, as is also the lateral pair, wliich stands in the middle of the 

 segment dorsally of the lateral carinae. The scaling is not dense, but reaches to the 

 last but fourth segment ; the scales are small and elongate, mostly black, those of 

 the internal (or anterior) side rarely white (rarancs). 



The palpi reach well above the head and protrude forward, being somewhat 

 S-shaped ; they are longest in candiopc. The scaling is smooth ventro-Iaterally 

 and does not show any interspersed long hairs, while the scales of the ventral edge 

 and of the free part of the dorsal side are long, forming a kind of crest, the dorsal 

 crest produced into a tuft which is contiguous to the eye ; second segment two 



