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Eegion, in the divisions 1, 2, 3, of Wallace. No species seem to 

 occur in the 4th subregion, viz., that of Madagascar, although it 

 is not improbable that one or two of the numerous species which 

 occur on the mainland may be also found on the island. 



Mruginosiis, cupreus, and savignyi are found in subregions 

 1, 3 ; lamarki in 1, 2 ; morbillosus in 2, 3 ; isidis occurs in the 

 1st subregion, and also in the Palsearctic subregion 2. The 

 majority of species, however, are found in subregions 1 and 3. 



The Palfearctic Eegion produced ten species, most of them 

 being found in subregion 2, a few only being found in the 1st 

 subregion ; while in the 3rd subregion only acuticollis, Mots., 

 and saccr var. typhon, Fisch., are found. 



The Oriental Eegion produces hrahmmus and gangeticus from 

 the 2nd subregion ; dcvotiis, erichsoni, and sanctus from the 1st. 

 An undescribed species in the Hope Collection comes from Assam, 

 in the 3rd subregion. 



Ateuchus consists of species having the body rounded, gene- 

 rally depressed above alike in both sexes, antennae O-jointed, 

 with a leaf-like club. The four posterior tibi?e are slender, elon- 

 gate, not abnormally truncated or dilated at tips, obliquely trun- 

 cated, and furnished with a single spur at the apex. The outer 

 margin of the elytra is smooth. The clypeus is divided into 

 three lobes, the outer edge being furnished with six teeth. 



(To be continued.) 



LIFE-HISTORY OF VANESSA C-ALBUM. 

 By F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S. 



My success in working out and completing the life-history of 

 this interesting butterfly this season is entirely due to the great 

 kindness of Mrs. Hutchinson, of Leominster, who was good 

 enough to send me a fine living female (the only specimen she 

 knew of taken during the past spring), which I received on 

 April 14th last. 



On the following day, April 15th, I placed the butterfly upon 

 a growing plant of stinging nettle {Urtica dioica), but both that 

 day and the following were too dull to induce her to deposit. 

 The morning of the 17th being brighter, I supplied her with 

 sugar and water, which she imbibed apparently with great relish 

 for ten or fifteen minutes, and enclosing her upon the plant, I 

 placed it in the full sunshine. Upon examining the plant shortly 

 afterwards, I was pleased to find a few eggs had been deposited, 

 and by the afternoon I found twenty-three eggs were laid, the 

 majority of them being upon the upper surface of the leaves, and 

 as many as seven on one leaf, the others distributed over the 



