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marked with transverse rows of black spots (about four on 

 each). The Jarvce feed on sassafras, and are called "mellow 

 worms " from their peculiar odour. 



[LIV.] Equcs, Linnaeus. I propose to restrict this name to 

 Eques nirens (Linn.), the representative of a very distinct 

 African group, and almost the only species originally placed in 

 Eques by Linnaeus which has not yet been made the type of a 

 genus. In these Butterflies the fore-wings are moderately 

 broad, with the costa arched, and the hind-margin oblique, 

 and the hind-wings are contracted in a series of obtuse pro- 

 jections to the anal angle, which is lobate or sub-caudate. 

 The wings are black, with a green or bluish-green band, vary- 

 ing in width, running obliquely from beyond the middle of the 

 costa of the fore-wings to above the anal angle of the hind- 

 wings. There are also frequently some green spots towards 

 the tip of the fore-wings, and the inner-margin of the hind- 

 wings. The under surface is sometimes obscurely marked, 

 while in other species there is a narrow white or yellowish- 

 white band or row of spots towards the hind-margin of the 

 hind-wings ; the body is dotted with white. The larva of the 

 South African E. lyccus (Doubleday), as described and figured 

 by Mr. Trimen, is green, with the thoracic segments very 

 much enlarged, and the "widest portion of the back on the 

 third thoracic and first abdominal segment is occupied by a 

 sub-ovate patch or shield of pale bluish-green, crossed mesially 

 by a thin whitish line, closely irrorated generally with white 

 dots, and bearing near its posterior edge a transverse row of 

 four small pinkish-lilac spots." The projections on the first 

 thoracic segment are short ; but there are two rather long 

 yellow projections on the anal segment. It feeds on orange 

 as \vell as on various native trees. The pupa is green, with 

 two projections on the head, and the wing-cases are very pro- 

 minent. 



