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propose to have a good figure engraved of the butterfly, 

 chrysalis and caterpillar. 



All your other notes I have also read with much interest, 

 especially those on turnip management, and your remarks 

 about " warble," and in due time I shall be much 

 obliged by being allowed to use these in my next Annual 

 Report. 



July 27, 1894. 



I am very much pleased to hear that you have hatched 

 two of the Large Tortoiseshell butterflies from your 

 specimens. This is very interesting as completing your 



C 1C. 



Caterpillar and chrysalis, natural size ; branched spine from 

 caterpillar, magnified. 



FIG. 13. GREAT TORTOISE-SHELL BUTTERFLY, VANESSA POLYCHLOROS, L. 



previous observation, and I am particularly glad of this note 

 of date of development for I am afraid that the only really 

 good chrysalis which I secured from your larvae does not 

 seem likely to develop. However, it gave me an opportunity 

 of seeing the beautiful colours and the six bright mother- 

 of-pearl-like spots on the back. Many thanks for kindly 

 offering me a specimen, but I should not like to take it for 

 it is of special interest with you to illustrate this rare attack, 

 and also it is very difficult to ensure safety in transmis- 

 sion. Many thanks all the same, and also for your Hessian 

 fly specimens received a short time ago, and for the 



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