14 METAMOKPHOSES OF BRAZILIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



in which position it has a remarkable resemblance to a dry 

 leaf. 



Family Papilionid^. 



Subfam. Pierince. 



Genus Synchloe. Hiibner. 



LXXXIV. — Synchloe Monuste, 



Papilio Monuste, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 760 (1767). 

 Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii., pi. 141, fig. f. 



Ova. On Nasturtium leaf, San Paulo, March, 1881. 



The eggs are laid in clusters of about fifty, on the upper 

 side of the leaf of the food-plant. Time of incubation not 

 determined. 



/ Hatched, 21st March, 1881. 



Changed skin, 25th ,, ,, 



27th „ 

 29th „ 

 1st April, 

 Full-fed, 6th 



The caterpillar feeds on Nasturtium, and is of a pale- 

 green colour, covered with minute purple tubercles. 



f Full-fed, 6th April, 1881. 

 P^^^- 1 Imago, 20th „ „ | ^^ ^^^^^ 



The caterpillar attaches itself by the tail, and a loop 

 round the thorax, to a wall, paling, &c., to undergo pupa- 

 tion. 



T ( Full-fed, 6th April. \ .. . 



Imago. \ ' ^ ^ 14 days. 



i Imago, 20th „ ) 



The butterfly appears a fortnight after the caterpillar is 

 full-fed. 



Larva. "^ 



