122 (November, 
hind-wing with a similar marginal band, containing at the anal angle a narrow 
line of red ; both wings with small brown spots on the inner-side of the mar- 
ginal band. 
Under-side : brown; fore-wing, the cell crossed by three elongated spots, the outer 
one red, edged with dark brown, the centre and inner one silvery-grey, edged 
with brown; beyond the.cell and at the anal angle a patch of silver-grey ; apex 
with a small spot of silver: hind-wing with a patch of silver-grey at the anal 
angle; both wings crossed diagonally by a line of silver, edged on the inner- 
side with dark brown ; a narrow waved line of dark brown following the outer 
margin of both wings. Expanse, 2 inches. 
Habitat: Madagascar. 
EREBIA PASSANDAVA, N.. 8. 
Upper-side: both wings deep purple-black, darkest round the outer margin. 
Under-side: dark brown, rather lighter at the outer margin, which is edged by a | 
narrow line of black ; at the apex of fore-wing two ocelli nearly confluent, both | 
black with white eye, the upper one very small; near anal angle of hind-wing | 
a larger ocellus, black, edged with rufous-brown, and a small white eye, above | 
this, following the outer margin, three minute ocelli, white, edged with black. 
Expanse, 1,%, inches. 
Habitat : Madagascar. 
MycaLests ANGANAVO, Nn. 8. 
Upper-side : brown ; fore-wing with an ocellus midway near outer margin, black, | 
bordered with red, and with a white eye: hind-wing with a small ocellus of | 
similar colors near the anal angle; outer margin bordered with lighter brown, | 
containing a narrow line of dark brown. 
Under-side : brown, with numerous waved markings, outer margin broadly bordered | 
with lighter brown ; ocelli as on upper-side. Expanse, 2 inches. 
Habitat : Madagascar. 
Halifax : September; 1871. 
ON THE EMBRYONIC LARVA OF BUTTERFLIES. 
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER (or Boston, U.S. A.). 
In their papers on various species of British Macro-Lepidoptera, 
Messrs. Hellins and Buckler furnish us with much better accounts of | 
the external appearance of caterpillars than can be gained from the 
meagre and superficial descriptions which used to be thought sufficient ; 
and, as they have not confined their descriptions to the full grown ani- 
mals, but have followed the creatures through all their moults, they 
have, in several cases, incidentally shown how great a difference there is 
between the larva just hatched and the full grown caterpillar ; especi- 
ally in the case of some of the Rhopalocera thus treated by them. Mr. ' 
Riley, of America, has, in one or two instances, recorded similar facts. 
