394 Archceologia. 



Papilionidce and Pieridce have, besides, a thoracic girdle of 

 silk. 



But my object in writing is not to correct this little over- 

 sight of phrase, but to mention a case very curiously parallel 

 to that recorded by Mr. Timins, of a reposing couch of silk 

 spun by the caterpillar of another showy butterfly, the Tiger 

 Swallow-tail of North America (Papilio Turnus). Nearly 

 twenty-seven years ago I thus announced the fact in question 

 in my Canadian Naturalist : — 



" September 1st. I have lately taken several of the fine 

 green velvety caterpillars of the Tiger Swallow-tail, with violet 

 spots on the body, and two eye-spots. It spins a bed of silk 

 so tightly stretched from one edge of a leaf to the other as 

 to bend it up, so that a section of it would represent a bow, 

 the silk being the string. On this elastic bed the larva 

 reposes, the fore parts of the body drawn in so as to swell out 

 that part, on which the eye-spots are very conspicuous. I 

 have taken it from willow, poplar, and basswood, but chiefly 

 from brown ash. Before it spins its button and suspending 

 girth, it gradually changes colour to a dingy purple." — 

 {Op. cit. p. 293.) 



AUCELEOLOGIA. 



Discoveries of considerable importance to English history were 

 made in the latter part of the last month in the Cathedral of 

 Rouen, under the care of the well-known Norman antiquary, the 

 Abbe Cochet. It is well known that, as far back as 1838, some 

 well-directed excavations brought to light the original effigy, or 

 statue, of Richard Coeur-de-Lion ; the Abbe Cochet has discovered 

 that of Richard's elder brother, Henry Court-Mantel, the tur- 

 bulent son of Henry II., who, as it is well known, was crowned 

 during his father's life. Contrary to the statement of Montfaucon, 

 who said that Henry's effigy was sculptured in white marble, the 

 material was found to be the hard lias of Creteil, as was tbe case 

 of that of Richard I. It is unfortunately much mutilated, and the 

 body cracked through the middle. Still it presents many points of 

 great interest. It represents a king of England and Duke of Nor- 

 mandy, and offers a faithful representation of the royal costume of 

 the time. The young prince wears a tunic, or long robe, fastened 

 under the throat by a handsome circular fibula. A girdle, buckled 

 on the loins, is ornamented in its own length with St. Andrew's 

 crosses, and other devices, in a very graceful pattern. The body of 

 the Prince is enveloped in the royal mantle, which is fastened at the 

 shoulders by means of two clasps in the form of qnatrefoils. The 

 effigy is without a sword, as was the case in that of his brother 



