218 DEL AGO A BAY. 



Papilio Antheus, also a black and green 

 swallow-tail, but larger and a paler green, Las 

 a caterpillar of the sam6 type as Papilio Morania, 

 with yellow branching spines. P. Leonidas, P. 

 Porthaon, and P. Perinus (the very lovely larva 

 of this last being without spines in last stage), 

 all support their varied pupae by the silken 

 filament, and I was surprised to find the chry- 

 salis of P. Colonna so very unlike the others. 



I have only seen one other of the same shape, 

 and that was formed by the caterpillar of 

 Eurytela Dry ope, a rather small rich brown 

 butterfly with a wide bordering of deep gold 

 colour. I found it feeding on the leaves of the 

 castor-oil plant, which I was examining more 

 closely than usual, having lately read that a 

 French botanist had pronounced the leaves of 

 that plant fatal to all the insect world, even if 

 they only rested on them. It certainly is not 

 so here, as the leaves are eaten up and their 

 beauty thereby sadly spoiled as much as those 

 of other plants, whilst butterflies and other 

 insects sun themselves on them habitually. 



