EXPLANATION OF PLATE C 



Fig. a . Caterpillar of Anosia plexippu ready to change into a chrysalis. 



Fig. b. Do. after having partly shed its skin. 



Fig. c. Do. holding itself suspended in the air by grasping the shed skin between the ^:i~^ 



of the third and fourth abdominal segments, and feeling about with the crcmasuJi: 



for the button of silk above. 



Fig. d . Do. after having caught the button and assumed its final form as a chrysalis. 

 Fig. e . Chrysalis of Papilio philenor, held by button and girdle of silk. 

 Fig. f . Egg of Basilarchia disippus, greatly magnified. 

 Fig. g. Egg of Anosia plexippus, greatly magnified. 

 Fig. h . Caterpillar of Basilarchia disippus. 



(All the figures are after Riley.) 



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