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50 Miss M. E. Fountaine’s Deseriptions of 
of several of the other Papilios; but as she died without 
laying a single egg, when I captured another ? of this 
species at Donnybrook (4500 feet), on February 24, I 
thought I would try again to obtain ova, and this time I 
gave the 2 Clausena inaequalis to lay upon, with the result 
that on February 28 she laid eleven ova,on March 1 three, 
three more the next day, and one more on March 6. On 
March 7 one of the first-laid ova hatched out, the young 
larva at first was to me indistinguishable from a young 
P. cenea larva—black, with white frills at the head and 
“tail.” It was not without some anxiety that I waited to 
see if it would eat the Clawsena, which, to my great joy, 
it at last decided to do. The others all hatched out later, 
most of them on March 12, when I had moved down to 
Jolivet. After a few days the white “frill” behind the 
head of these larvae turns yellow-ochre, the tail-end 
remaining white. They fed readily on the Clausena 
inaequalis, and I have no doubt I should have bred nearly 
all of them, had not their numbers visibly diminished 
owing to their cannibalistic tendencies, which, unluckily, 
I did not discover till seven or eight of my small number 
had mysteriously disappeared, after which I kept them as 
nearly separate as possible. The larva, as it grew older, 
entirely lost its resemblance to P. cenea, and might much 
more easily have been mistaken for P. demolews. Descrip- 
tion in fourth skin is as follows :—Fuirst segments behind 
head ochre-brown, rather light, and very gradually shaded 
into white, after which a broad, dark-brown band occupies 
the better part of two or three segments, streaked and 
speckled with white. The two last segments are pure 
white. The full-grown larva of P. echerioides is a really 
beautiful object, of a deep, vivid apple-green ; the sides 
and underneath part varying in colour from a rich ochre 
to a deep, “sunset-flushed” russet-brown. The pupa is 
green or brown, and in shape is most extraordinary, like 
a shrivelled-up autumn leaf. These larvae grew very 
rapidly, especially after I moved down to Umzinto, a very 
hot place in the coast-belt ; and they all pupated early in 
April. I naturally expected, at this season, that they 
would now remain in pupa till the following spring; but 
whether influenced by the intense heat of Umzinto, or 
would naturally be producing an autumn brood in the 
high, upland forests, where echericides makes its home, I 
am unable to say; anyhow, on April 20, a fine f emerged, 
