Rhopalocera from the Australian region. 147 
The full-grown larva is from 387 to 40 mm. long, 
cylindrical, rather stout in proportion to its length, and 
tapers slightly towards the head; whole surface deep 
blackish brown, darker in some individuals than in 
others, and almost approaching a velvety black; a 
series of dorsal, subdorsal, spiracular, and subspiracular 
- short, and rather blunt, finely-branched spines; a 
greyish lunular stripe upon each segment above the 
spiracles; a faint, and somewhat interrupted, whitish 
grey spiracular line; head black, cordate, notched on 
the crown, with a very short blunt spine on each side, 
and sparsely covered with fine black hairs; second seg- 
ment, when head is stretched out for crawling, exhibits 
an orange-coloured collar; legs black; ventral and anal 
claspers tipped with tawny, and with tawny spots at the 
base. 
The chrysalis, which is short and obese, is attached 
by its anal hooks to a pad of silk on the under side of a 
leaf, a stem, or an adjoining stone, and is dark umber- 
brown, speckled with greyish dots and blotches. 
Doleschallia Herrichii, Butl. (Pl. VI., figs. 18, 18 (a) ). 
This fine species was rather scarce at Havannah Har- 
bour, Sandwich Island, and at Aneiteum, in the New 
Hebrides, from June to August, 1882. It is very strong 
on the wing, and fond of flying rapidly backwards and 
forwards in front of some high tree, and when it settles 
it generally does so far out of reach. It is ever ready 
to give chase to any passing butterfly, consequently 
nearly all those captured were more or less worn. 
At Aneiteum, in August, I was fortunate to find its 
larve in some numbers, and succeeded in breeding a 
good series. Strange to say although such a _ high- 
flying butterfly, the larve were always found upon a low 
growing shrub, the name of which I am unacquainted 
with. 
The eggs are laid in little batches of twenty or thirty 
all close together; they are quite round, and pale glossy 
yellow. The young larve are gregarious, but after 
changing their first or second skins they break up the 
family party and each larva starts forth on its own 
account. From observations made I am inclined to 
believe that they have the power of doing without food 
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