i;U Mr. J. P. jMansel AYeale's Notes on the 



■noma Varanes. Tubercles very short, tliose next head 

 yellowish, on anal segment Avhitish, very much like a slug- 

 in shape. Y-like organ crimson lake at base, tapering to 

 o-reenish-white. On 4th segment, two small black spots, 

 bordered by a narrow white line ; 6th and 7th segments 

 festooned with delicate whitish zig-zag lines. A doidole 

 row of bluish white dots along back. Lateral borders 

 above spiracles white. Head and true legs green, false 

 legs pale ochreoiis. 1| to If inch long. 



Pupa. — Bright green, paler beneath, with pale yellow 

 linear stripes and dots. Very arched in middle, tapering 

 to extremities. Fork at head merely divided, the branches 

 nearly parallel. 



Ventral aspect. — From head to abdomen a pale yelloAV 

 line, forming a keel-like ridge, three pairs of pale yelloAV 

 dots, on base of wnng covers two irregular yellowish spots, 

 sometimes wanting; wing nervures, &c., palely indicated by 

 yellow lines; two lateral ridges yellowish, marked with 

 brownish as in Pupilio Nireus, its edges somewhat re- 

 curved towards dorsal aspect. Two brownish spots some- 

 times on abdomen. 



The second third, between the suspensory threads, very 

 much extended laterally. 



Dorsal aspect. — Thoracic projection smaller than in P. 

 Nireus, and, like it, tipped with a brown dot ; abdomen 

 somewhat concave from anal extremity to thoracic promi- 

 nence, a dark mark, like the mid-rib of a leaf, terminating 

 at the anal pedicel wdtli a double loop resembling the joint 

 of the footstalk of a leaf. Two small triangular yellow 

 marks on abdomen, sometimes w^anting. Viewed from 

 the side or below, the resemblance to a leaflet is very 

 striking. 



Chanye from larva to jmpa. 



The caterijillar generally fixes its anal legs below the 

 axil of a leafstalk, and fastens itself beloAV 6th segment 

 with a double thread to the petiole ; the whole body be- 

 comes flaccid and pale green, Avith an increase of white 

 along the sides, the head curved upwards and inwards. 

 In this state it invariably remains for about twenty-four 

 hours. The body then contracts longitudinally, and the 

 skin is gradually ])ushcd backwards"; when the skin of 

 head is detached, the bifid tubercles of head, which in this 

 stnf/e arc widehj separated, are pointed upwards, and pushed 

 against the suspensory threads; the antenna, which are 

 detached from the rest of the body, arc likewise bent up- 



