164 Mr. J. O. Westwood on the Oriental Species 



perfect state, but also in tlie general character of the caterpillars 

 themselves; thus the larva of the genus D'ladema* has the head 

 armed with two erect spines, but each of the following segments 

 has several shorter spines, which is the character of the true 

 Chilopodiform larvae of Dr. Horsfield. Apatura his has the larva 

 very slug-like, being thi 'kest in the middle of the body, the head 

 furnished with two erect horns, the body attenuated behind and 

 terminated by a bifid point ; the surface of the body is finely 

 shagreened, and with slender oblique pale yellow lines at the sides. 

 The larvae of A. Clyton and CeV'is are more elongated, the head 

 with two branches or bifid horns or spines. (Bdv. and Leconte, 

 Icon. Lep. Amer. Septentr.) The larva o{ Nrjmplialh Jas'ms {C/ia- 

 raxcs J.y Ochs., Bdv.) has the body smooth, gradually attenuated 

 behind, and terminated by a depressed bicuspidated tail, and the 

 head armed with four obtuse horns. 'X\^?^\. o^ Nijm'ph. Aihamas 

 (Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Ins. E. Ind. Comp. pi. 8, f. 7, is rather 

 more elongated than that of N. Jasius, but similarly furnished 

 with horns on the head and tail. The larva of N. Fabius, figured 

 in Gen. Horsfield's collection of drawings in the British Museum, 

 is still more elongated. The larvse of Profo^omus Hippona, as 

 represented by Stoll, Supp. Cramer, pi. 2, fig. 1, is subcylin- 

 drical, granulose, not spined, slightly attenuated, and apparently 

 simple behind, the head being armed witli two short obtuse horns 

 on the hinder part ; the larva of Paph'ia is elongated, scabrous 

 and setose, with the head square, and furnished with two small 

 conical horns, which, as well as the sides of the head, are minutely 

 tuberculated. The anal pair of feet are large and divergent. 

 (Stoll, pi. 6, fig. 3, P. Pohjcarmes, and pi. 6, fig. 2, P. Eribotcs, 

 = Leomclas, Cram) In Aniatliusia Phid/ppus, as we learn from Dr. 

 Horsfield's invaluable collection of drawings and descriptive 

 Catalogue (pi. 7, fig. 10), the caterpillar is long, with a rounded 

 head, armed on the sides above with a pair of short, broad pal- 

 mated horns, the body being covered with minute setae, and also 

 thickly clothed with hairs, especially about the head ; the body 

 being terminated by two long setose spines. The larva of Disco- 

 pfiora Celinde, on the contrary, although having the body long, 

 cylindrical, and furnished with hairy tubercles, has the head small 

 and simple, and the tail armed only witli two short conical points. 

 (Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. Ind. Comp. pi. 7, fig. 11.) 



According to Madame Merian's figures of the transformations 

 of Morplio Achilles and Telemachus (the correctness of the former 

 of which has been confirmed by M. Lacordaire), the larvae are 



• See Gen. D. Lep. p. 280, for an account of the transformatiuns of two species 

 pf this genus. 



