146 Mr. C. F. Mathew’s life-histories of 
wander to some adjacent wall, or paling, where they 
turn to a somewhat angulated chrysalis with blunt 
abdominal spines. The colour of the chrysalis varies, 
and depends upon the locality where they have effected 
their change. If against a wall they are reddish 
brown with a few abdominal silvery spots; but when 
attached to their food-plant they are beautiful objects, 
being like burnished gold, or opalescent golden green. 
They emerge in ten days or a fortnight. 
The full-grown larva is from 380 to 32 mm. long, 
cylindrical, tapering towards each extremity ; head cor- 
date, notched on the crown, slightly hairy and much 
larger than the second segment; whole of the dorsal 
and subdorsal area smoky black, in some varieties 
dark hoary grey; dorsal stripe narrow and _ black; 
sometimes an interrupted white, or whitish yellow sub- 
dorsal stripe, bordered below with black; subspiracular 
area olive-green or olive-yellow; lateral skinfold well- 
developed, and pale yellow; spines small, branched, and 
blackish, or reddish brown, with the exception of those 
upon the lateral skinfold which spring from a reddish 
cushion, and are olive-yellow ; ventral area smoky olive ; 
legs black. 
Junonia vellida, Fabr. (Pl. VI., fig. 11). 
- This is a common butterfly and appears to be pretty 
generally distributed. It occurs in open waste places, 
flies rapidly to and fro when disturbed, and alights 
abruptly upon a stone, or clear place, on the ground, 
keeping its wings expanded to the sun. The larve, near 
Sydney, feed upon Plantago major and Plantago lanceo- 
lata, and are not difficult to find. In the Botanical 
Gardens, I frequently noticed them upon Antirrhinun, 
and at the Friendly Islands they were feeding upon 
sweet potato; and at the Gilbert, Ellice, and Marshall 
Islands they were to be seen living quite exposed upon 
the broad, succulent, and glabrous leaves of a species 
of Daphne (2), and they probably feed upon a variety of 
other plants. I met with it at Sydney, Brisbane, 
Thursday Island, Hobart, New Guinea, Fiji, New Heb- 
rides, New Caledonia, Samoa, Friendly Islands, Rotu- 
mah, Gilbert, Ellice, and Marshall Islands. The perfect 
insects vary considerably in different localities, the most 
marked variety occurring at Samoa. 
