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Thus this larva has very much the same peculiar whitish glau- 

 ms- 96] cous-green color as the 

 k plant on which it feeds ; 

 and any one who has seen 

 it upon the plant, cannot 

 help concluding that it 

 furnishes another in- 

 stance of that mimickry 

 in Nature, where an in- 

 sect, by wearing the ex- 

 act colors of the plant 

 upon which it feeds, is 

 enabled the better to es- 

 cape the sharp eyes af its natural enemies. When full-grown, which 

 is in about three weeks after hatching, this worm (Fig. 94, a) meas- 

 ures 1A inches, and although, as above described, the little elevations 

 frequently disappear so that it looks quite smooth, yet sometimes 

 they remain until the transformation to chrysalis takes place, as was 

 the case with two which I bred. 



Paphia glyceuium. — Full-grown larva— Length 1.50 inches. Cylindrical. General appear- 

 ance shagreened, pale glaucous-green, lighter above stigmata than elsewhere. Ground-color, of 

 bodj* clear green. Thickly covered with white papillae or granulations, which are often inter- 

 spersed with minute black or dark-brown sunken dots. Head quite large, (rather more than i as 

 large as the third segment), nutant, subquadrate, bilobed, granulated like the body, but with the 

 black sunken dots more numerous, and having besides, several larger granulations above, some 

 four of which are generally black and the rest fulvous ; a row of three very distinct eye-spots at 

 the base of palpi; the triangular V-shaped piece elongated and well defined by a fine black line, 

 and divided longitudinally by a straight black line; palpi and labrura pale, the latter large and 

 conspicuous ; jaws black. Neck narrow, constricted, green, smooth, and retractile within first seg- 

 ment. Segments 1—3 gradually larger and larger ; 3 to last gradually smaller. Stigmata fulvous. 

 Venter less thickly granulated than tergum. Described from five full-grown specimens received 

 from Mr. Muhleman. 



Preparatory to transforming, it suspends itself by the hind legs 

 to a little tuft of silk which it had previously spun, and after resting 

 for about twenty-four hours with its head curled up to near the tail, 

 it works off the larval skin and becomes a chrysalis, which in from 

 two to three weeks afterwards gives out the butterfly. This chrysa- 

 lis (Fig. 94, h) is short, thick, rounded, and of alight green; some- 

 times becoming light gray, and being finely speckled and banded 

 with dark gray. The skin is so thin and delicate that the colors of 

 the butterfly may be distinctly seen a few days before it makes its 

 escape. 



The male butterfly (Fig. 95), is of a deep coppery red on the up- 

 per side, bordered and powdered and marked with dark purplish- 

 brown, as shown in the figure. The under side is of a feuille morte 

 brown with a greasy lustre, the scales being beautifully shingled 

 transversely so as to remind one of that article of dry-goods which 

 the ladies call rep ; while the bands which commenced on the front 

 wings above, may be traced further across the wing, and there is a 

 transverse band on the hind wings, with an indistinct white spot near 



