240 Mr. W. H. Miskin's Note on Mynes Guerini. 



pursuing their social instincts, even to their assuming the 

 pupa state, the chrysahdes being found suspended together 

 in a little groixp of three or four individuals united at the 

 tails. I have never been so fortunate as to trace this 

 insect through its various stages myself, but a lamented 

 fi'iend upon one occasion, some years ago, reared a brood 

 from the larvfB ; and a group of the pupa skins so united 

 still remain in a drawer of his cabinet^ which has noAv, 

 however, passed into other hands. 



