I 1 MODERN ARRANGEMENT OF 



1>. The central areola of the lower wings posteriorly closed. 



The genera are PAVONIA, BRASSOLUS, EURIBIUS, and 

 SATYRUS. 



In the Dutch work, De Wonderen Gods, we have 

 the following interesting information concerning the 

 transformations of the Alderman Butterfly, Am- 

 m fralis Atalanta of Rennie, by J. C. Sepp of Am- 

 sterdam : 



" Like all other butterflies, this species originates 

 from an egg, which, however, is very rarely met 

 with, because it is very small and green ; almost 

 indeed of the same colour as the stinging nettle, 

 ( Urtica dioica,) on which it is laid by the mother 

 butterfly, and therefore easily overlooked. 



" Although I had found, for many years succes- 

 sively, and in considerable numbers, the caterpillars 

 and the butterflies of this species, I was long un- 

 successful in procuring any of the eggs ; but at last 

 I succeeded, having found one on the Oth of July, 

 at the very moment the mother butterfly had laid it, 

 and it hatched as well as any other of this class. 

 I found others afterwards, which had perhaps been 

 longer deposited, and they likewise hatched, and I 

 reared butterflies from them ; so that now I know 

 their whole manner of life, and their several trans- 

 formations, and am enabled to detail these to the 

 reader from my own observation. 



" As soon as the infant caterpillar is hatched, 

 it begins to eat directly, and to look out for a place 



