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this in the direction of the outer corner, two smaller ones; 

 the outer edge is dark buff, folloAved immediately by a black 

 indented stripe, in which are a series of small dark blue 

 crescents. 



The hind wings are also rich orange red, but all the base 

 is dark coloured, and they are bordered with dark buff, fol- 

 lowed by an indented black band, in Avhich is a row of dark 

 blue crescents of larger size than those in the fore winers, leavino- 

 the orange as a bar across. Underneath, the markings are the 

 same, but the orange is changed to stone-colour; the margins 

 are the same, but darker, and separated from the rest by an 

 indented line of metallic blackish orcen. 



Tlie lower M'ings have the bar rej^laced by a darker stone- 

 colour; the margins separated by a row of crescent-shaped 

 dark blackish green spots. 



The caterpillar is of a dull colour — a mixture of grc(*n and 

 brown, with paler lines down the back and sides, and beset 

 with black spines: the head is black. 



The chrysalis is brownish, Avith golden spots on the fore 

 Yiavt, and sometimes nearly entirely golden. 



In varieties of this species the black spots have been more 

 or less enlarged or diminished, so as in some cases to be 

 conllucnt, and in others obsolete. In one figured bv the Rev. 

 AV. T. Brce, of Allesley, in the "Magazine of Natural History," 

 the second and third black bars on the front edge are united, 

 and the two round spots on the same Avings are absent, the 

 hind Avings being uniformly obscure. A vei-y singular 'Lusus 

 natura^,' preserved in the cabinet of Mr. Stephens, has occurred 

 in the Small Tortoise-shell, Mr. Doubleday having taken one 

 near E])piiig, Avlth five Avings, the fii'lli, of small size, being 

 afiixed to one of the hinder onrs, Avhose markings it repeated. 

 A hynienopterous insect with seven legs, four on one side and 

 three on the other, and still j^reserved in the cabinet of J. C. 

 Dale, Esq., Avas captured several years ago by my brother 

 Frederick Pliilipse Morris, Esq., in a Avood near Axminster, 

 Devonshire. 



The engravings are from specimens in my own collection. 



