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flight. Selecting an open glade it will fly rapidly up and down 

 for a space of some 300 yards, coming fearlessly near to one's 

 net, which it generally manages to evade by a quick double, 

 and finally approaching a tuft of grass, or the projecting 

 branch of a tree, disappears. It almost invariably selects a 

 broad-bladed grass, striped with brown and yellow, and hang- 

 ing pendent from its extremity with the wings folded, the 

 upper ones being covered over and concealed by the lower, it 

 cannot be seen until it is again startled into flight." 



The larva of the South African rapilio ceiiea, Stoll, is slug- 

 shaped, bluish-green, with short tubercles (white, and longer in 

 the young larva) on the second and anal segments ; the retrac- 

 tile fork crimson-lake, tipped with greenish-white. The pupa is 

 also green, slender in front, with the two usual processes con- 

 tiguous, and meeting in a point ; it is wide in the middle and 

 pointed again at the hinder end. The larva feeds on Vepris 

 lanceolata. 



Although the females of these Butterflies resemble highly- 

 protected insects, yet they themselves are well protected other- 

 wise, the green pupa resembling a leaf, and the under side of 

 the Butterfly resembling in colour the shrubs among which it 

 perches. 



[llx.] Araniifiia, Moore. The type of this genus is A. 

 deinoliofi (Cramer), which is met with throughout the greater 

 part of the Indo-Malayan Region. It measures nearly five 

 inches across the wings. The fore-wings are considerably 

 produced, the hind-margin being very oblique, and the hind- 

 wings are rounded and scalloped, with a long and somewhat 

 spatulate tail. A pale green band runs obliquely from near 

 the base of the inner-margin of the hind-wings nearly to the 

 tip of the fore-wings, where it grows much narrower, and 

 becomes broken into spots. On the hind-wings are some sub- 

 marginal grejn lunules, and at the anal angle is a round black 



