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metallic reflection of the male. The fore wings are orange- 

 brown, with black markings and whitish spots ; the hind wings 

 very dark, almost black, except at the base, where they are 

 suffused with brown ; near the margin on the inner side a row of 

 eye-like spots, round which on the outer side are five or six 

 smaller spots, orange-brown ; the eye-like spots are hardly visible 

 on one of the two specimens. I have omitted to say that the 

 larvae were bred in the house. 



Limenitis disippus. — This species I tried to rear in the open 

 on willow. The larvae for several weeks thrived very well during 

 the spring, but they were ultimately destroyed by their enemies. 

 Had I protected them with a muslin-bag, or bred them on a tree 

 in the house, the rearing would have been very easy. I bred this 

 species before, and I think it could be bred successfully in the 

 open if the larvae were protected from ants, wasps, and other 

 pests. 



The Limenitis disippus larvae were sent to me from Iowa 

 during the winter or early spring, and they were placed in the 

 spring on the willows. I watched them coming out of their little 

 willow-leaf cases when the sun was shining, and going in again 

 after sunset. 



Darapsa myron. — In April or May my little daughter found, 

 in one of the flower-beds adjoining the house, on the surface of 

 the ground, a pupa which I could not recognise, except as being 

 a species of the Sphingidae. It seemed to me a pupa of some 

 Deilephila. About the middle of July a moth emerged from it 

 unknown to me, and to other persons to whom I showed it. The 

 colours were somewhat like those of Smerinthus tilice, but the 

 shape was entirely different. Could it have been a natural hybrid 

 between S. tilice and some Deilephila ? This was hardly possible. 

 What could it be ? The pupa evidently was the produce of a 

 larva which had fed in the garden. It was found at the foot of a 

 jessamine, but, besides this, other climbers cover the house, — 

 vine, honeysuckle, rose, Virginia-creeper, and ivy. I took the 

 specimen, with its pupa-case, to the British Museum, to have the 

 species identified by Mr. Kirby, and he found it to be Derapsa 

 myron, a North-American species. Should any other specimens 

 of this species have been captured it will be most interesting to 

 know, and how it found its way to England. The following is the 

 description: — Pupa light brown, speckled with black; coverings 



