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length. Its proportions agree in all respects with those 

 given above. 



The figures representing this species in PI. XXXI. have 

 been drawn from a series of specimens preserved in spirits, 

 in the Collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. It will be seen 

 that in the more immature state the insect is destitute of the 

 two ocelli-like marks on the fourth segment of the abdomen. 



A very interesting account of the habits, metamorphoses, 

 and growth of a male specimen of this insect, reared in 

 the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, has been pub- 

 lished by Andrew Murray, Esq., in the ' Edinburgh New 

 Philosophical Journal,' new series, January 1 856 ; and the 



curiosity of the public to see this interesting animal during 

 the eighteen months of its existence in the active state in 

 one of the hot-houses of that establishment was so great, 

 that the Curator of the Gardens, to whose care and judi- 

 cious management the prolonged life of the insect was en- 

 tirely due, found it necessary, for the health of the creature 

 itself, to forbid its being shown on more than four days i 

 the week. 



Plate XXXI. Fig. 1. The male, of the natural size. 1 a. 



The terminal segments of the abdomen seen from beneath. 



1 b. The male larva, full-grown. 1 c. The male pupa. 

 Fig. 2. The female, of the natural size. 



