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Marvels of Insect Life. 



representative of a numerous ,^enus of large and liandsome 'butterflies 

 that inhabit the African and Indian regions. It measures about three 

 inches (from two and a half to three and a quarter) across the expanded 

 wings. All the wings are brown in colour, with a kind of marginal band 

 of orange ; a row of six orange spots on the fore-wing, parallel to this band ; and 

 four small blue spots within the marginal band of the hind-wings, w^hich are edged 

 with a narrow line of black outside the orange. The tails are also black. The under 

 side shows a beautiful but complicated pattern of spots, bands, and streaks of grey, 

 mnroon, brown, white, orange, and black. Tlic caterpillar is green and shagreened ; 



Photo 6y] 



Eggs of Snake-Fly. 



[C. B. W illiams, t .l:.S. 



A group of eggs of the spot ted -necked snake-fly, from nature, in dicayed wood of a tree stump. Enlarged to twenty-tbrcr times the 

 natural dimensions. 



the head lighter in tint, with four yellow, horn-like points, which are tipped with 

 red. A line of yellow extends along each side from near the head to the hinder 

 extremity. On the back are two orange rings. It feeds at night on the leaves of 

 the so-called strawberry-tree, ^ with which its colour harmonizes ; so also does that 

 of the chrysalis, which hangs from a twig and might be ovt>rlooked as a curled 

 leaf. Its wing-cases are slightly tinged w^ith blue. 



The pasha is very rapid in its flight, and very thfluult to capture. It habitually 

 flies high, like the pur])le emperor, and like that royal buttfrllx' chiefly comes 



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