ON SOME LEPIDOPTEROUS LARV^. 93 



the most delightful larvee to rear that I know of. In the 

 first place you have got a rarity, and that in itself is a great 

 satisfaction. In the next place it will go on eating as long as 

 any food remains, and it seems to like its leaves rather dry 

 too, being found at large on lime trees, which have rather 

 thick hard leaves, a character in which the species of 

 lime on which it feeds varies considerably. As the larva 

 grows in size it becomes more diversified in colour on the 

 back, until in the last stage it puts on bright yellow and 

 purple-brown hues, which, unfortunately, have rather suf- 

 fered in the preparation of our specimens. When full-fed it 

 rolls one of the lime leaves together into a little funnel 

 closed at one end, spins a brown silk web over the other end, 

 and within this chamber changes to a chrysalis thickly 

 covered with a white powder, which probably has some pro- 

 tective value. 



With this local species I bring my remarks to a conclu- 

 sion. I am conscious that they are of a scrappy and dis- 

 connected character, but my difficulty has been, not to find 

 matter of interest amongst the lepidopterous larvse, but to 

 choose from the redundant material which we have at hand 

 in this fascinating order of insects well-known and singular 

 species which appear to have special claims to our attention. 



