8 METAMORPHOSES OF BRAZILIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



weeks after pupation. It is a common fly in San Paulo, and 

 is often seen in the streets of the town, where it has probably 

 been reared in some garden at the backs of the houses. 

 There are several broods in the year. 



Subfam. Ad'cBincs. 



Genus Actinote. Hiibner. 



LXXVI. — Actinote Alalia. 



Acraa Alalia, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monat. iv., p. 105 (1860). 



Larva. Full-fed, San Paulo, 28th October, 1881. 



The caterpillar feeds upon a shrub, the name of which I 

 do not know. I have taken it in the forest on the Serra da 

 Cantareira, near San Paulo. It is of a pale bluish colour, 

 and is thickly covered with spines, which apparently have no 

 venomous properties. 



Pupa. Not preserved. 



The caterpillar hangs itself up by the tail to undergo 

 pupation. The chrysalis is of a creamy white colour, 

 ornamented with black veins and a double row of black 

 spines on the back. 



Imago. 



ra, ^ Full-fed, 28th Oct., 1881. \ 



Imago, 16th Nov., 1881. ) ^^ ^^y^* 



b, ? Full-fed, 28th Oct., 1881. , 



Imago, 16th Nov., 1881. ) ^^ ^^y^* 



The butterfly emerges in a little under three weeks from 

 the time of pupation. 



[Note. — A variety of this species, reared by Mr. Dukinfield Jones, is 

 described in the former paper, published in the Proc. of the Lit. and Phil. 

 Soc. of Liverpool, 1881-2, p. 340, No. LXXXII, and in Museum Eeport 

 No. 2, p. 36.] 



