( xci ) 



purplish-white line. There is a pair of black dots just above 

 the anus. Fourth ecdysis, June 24. 



" Fifth and last stage larva. In its last stage the larva is 

 entirely green (head dull red), with no spines except the pair just 

 above the anus, which are short and whitish pink, with the 

 part posterior to them of the same colour. The margin of 

 the body in contact with the leaf is of a pink tint. On the 

 third segment the sites of the spines are now marked by 

 slight rounded bosses, very small, doubly ringed with black. 

 A transverse pink band across the dorsum of the fourth 

 segment has four slightly darker pink round spots outlined 

 in black. The anterior border of this band merges into the 

 general green tint of the body, but posteriorly it is sharply 

 marked with a narrow black line, which is really only the 

 posterior border of a deep velvety-black band concealed 

 under the overlapping posterior border of the fourth segment 

 and seldom visible. When the larva is ready to pupate, the 

 curvature of its body brings this black band freely into view. 



" Pupa. Leaf green. Flattened dorso-ventrally, with very 

 marked lateral edge of dead-leaf brown, as are the very short 

 blunt cephalic processes one at each angle of the head. Be- 

 tween head and thorax, and thorax and abdomen, the- lateral 

 edge is deeply constricted. Mid-dorsally, a longitudinal 

 brown line, on each side of which, at level of the constriction 

 between thorax and abdomen, is a small russet-brown mark 

 like a hammer with short broad handle the head being directed 

 towards anterior end of pupa. The two constrictions are 

 marked by a linear extension over the dorsal surface of the 

 brown tint along the lateral edge. The dorsal surface of each 

 abdominal segment bears a minute blue-green spot on each 

 side of the brown line, and external to it another separated 

 by a similar interval." 



The imago, a male, emerged July 30. 



The specimen and its pupa-case were exhibited to the 

 meeting, together with another male and its pupal shell. 

 The latter butterfly, which emerged August 21, was also 

 reared from a Kome larva. 



Eggs and young larvae of P. nohilis. — Prof. Poulton said 

 that he had received the following account in a letter written 



