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wing almost colourless, and somewhat opalescent; the appendages 

 also green ; more deeply coloured over meso- and metathoracic 

 segments ; the prothorax pale greenish-grey tinged very slightly with 

 reddish, the glazed eye conspicuous, exhibiting a narrow blackish lunule; 

 the abdomen greenish ventrally, slightly tinged with red, the dorsum 

 greenish with reddish mediodorsal line broken somewhat at segmental 

 incisions, and with reddish shades along the spiracular and supra- 

 spiracular lines, and again between the latter and the mediodorsal on 

 abdominal segments 1-8 ; the abdominal segments 9 and 10 reddish - 

 grey ; the abdominal spiracles (2-8) flesh-coloured and conspicuous. 

 October 28th : The whole of the wings now opaque and of a creamy 

 tint. November 2nd: The wings are now very opaque, and solid- 

 looking, still creamy in colour; the head and prothorax light brown, 

 the eyes darker ; the rest of the body still strongly tinged with 

 green, especially the prothorax. November 9th : The pupa browned 

 considerably ; the eyes blackening ; the thorax and abdomen brown ; 

 the head, appendages and legs also still brown ; the antennae rather 

 brighter brown ; the forewings of a delicate brown with pale pea- 

 green base, nervures, and outer and inner margins ; the neuration 

 (of the as-yet little-developed imago) standing out very distinctly, in 

 its entirety, all the nervures being conspicuously marked as green 

 lines. November 11th : The meso- and metathorax blackish dorsally ; 

 the 1st and 2nd abdominal segments darkened considerably, 

 also dorsally ; the eyes also blackish ; the rest of the pupa 

 brownish-fuscous, except the wings, which are brown or fawn, 

 and still with bright green nervures and outer margin. 

 November 12th (10.30 a.m.) : The dorsum, except the prothorax, 

 blackish-biown, the meso- and metathorax almost black; the raised 

 posterior edges of the abdominal segments browner and shiny ; the 

 prothorax and venter dark brown, the antennas with conspicuous, 

 black, intersegmental lines, the eyes conspicuous ; the ground of the 

 forewings, with the fawn-colour of yesterday covered with a soft 

 green floss (? hair-scales), thickest along the edges of the still bright- 

 green nervures ; the outer margin forming, as it were, a bright pea- 

 green fringe, through which a dark linear space passes at the end of 

 each nervure, and m line with the position in which the black dashes 

 occur in the chequered fringes; the basal wing-spine prominent and 

 dark brown in colour, but the green at the base of the wing abutting 

 on it is already taking on a clear metallic indigo-blue tint, and the 

 scaling here has lost the flossy appearance it yet has on the other parts 

 of the wing, and has become opaque so that none of the ground is 

 discernible. 2.30 p.m. : The outer margin of the wing that looked 

 fringe-like at 10.30 a.m. is now seen to be the outer portion of the 

 wing; it is of a distinct metallic green with an indigo tinge, 

 edged by a strongly-developed black outer-marginal line (g ); the outer 

 portions of the nervures in this metallic area are now also black 

 (described this morning as looking like linear spaces); the true fringe 

 on the sloping outer area of the pupal wing, beyond " Poulton's line," 

 being as it were puckered together almost to a point on the outer 

 margin of the fringe, the black dashes in the fringe, each starting from 

 the terminus of a nervure, approaching each other as the fringe reaches 

 the apex of this puckered area, the four dashes coming from the 

 branches of the median nervure being particularly conspicuous. ; the 



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