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though some were of the colour of an emerald, bril- 

 liantly polished, the ribs being paler, of a dull whitish- 

 green. Altogether, when seen through a strong lens, 

 it has much of the familiar appearance of a miniature 

 gooseberry. 



They hatched May 5th ; the young larvae were dark 

 slaty-green, with black heads and black hairs. (W. B., 

 Note-Book II, 137). 



Argynnis Paphia. 

 Plate X, fig. 1. 



On the 4th of August, 1876, I received from the 

 Rev. J. Hellins eight eggs which had been laid by a 

 captured female. 



These eggs had been laid July 30th and 31st, 1876 ; 

 the larvae hatched August 13th and 14th, and were 

 placed on potted plants of Viola canina ; they soon 

 crept under the leaves, and I did not see them again 

 till April 6th, 1877, when I detected one, and subse- 

 quently four others, which had survived the perils of 

 hibernation. Of these five, one I afterwards lost ; one, 

 when full-grown, was preserved by Lord Walsingham ; 

 one was sent to Mr. Hellins (who had lost every one 

 of the larvae he retained during hibernation), and the 

 imago bred June 30th; and two I kept myself, and 

 treated with such success, that the pair of butterflies, 

 which I bred on June 26th and 27th, were larger and 

 finer specimens than any I possessed before. 



The egg in shape is a dumpy cone, laid erect on the 

 flattened broader end and rounded off at the top ; the 

 shell with about twenty tolerably prominent, longi- 

 tudinal ribs, some not reaching to the top, where the 

 others converge on a central embossed space, having 

 again a spot of finer reticulation in its middle; the 

 reticulation between the ribs is not very prominent ; 

 the colour, at first pale greenish-yellow and glisten- 



