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Avanls, and the united efforts of the tul)ercles and antennae 

 push the loose skin between the suspensory threads. The 

 body is then violently bent from side to side. The thread 

 by which the anal extremity is attached is lengthened, so 

 that it becomes almost detached, and the loose skin is then 

 shaken off. 



After a slight pause, the fork of head becomes straight- 

 ened, and the tubercles parallel. The body is at intervals 

 drawn up at the thorax ; the head is drawn downwards, 

 and the antenna become attached to the body. The anal 

 extremity is again attached. The keel and lateral ridges 

 appear, and the bifid processes, which are now closely 

 parallel, are bent downwards. The imago emerges in 

 three weeks. 



The following is a list of imagines raised by me from 

 larvffi : — 



A peculiar Hippo coon 



form. 

 Kaffrarian Cenea form. . 



Trophonius form. 



Kaffrarian Cenea. 

 [ Forewings with a black 

 - -p. ^ J mark at extremity of dis- 



„ 10. Uo. S < ^^.^^j ^gjl^ hindwings 



( like Papilio Meriones. 



11. Do. ^ ^ 



7th „ 12. Do. $ Kaffrarian Cenea. 



13. 



14. 



15. Do. $ (R. Trimen). 



16. 



17. 

 It will thus be noticed that the males are as numerous, 

 or only a little more so, than the females. This conclusion 

 I had previously arrived at from observation. _ The rarity 

 of females in collections I believe to be principally owing 

 to their peculiar and retiring habits. In the Perie forest 

 I have seen dozens of the male, but never a female, and I 

 attribute this to the difficulty of penetrating the thick 



