68 ARGTNNIS ADIPPE. 



subdorsal spines on those segments, but there were 

 several warty tubercles at the sides and beneath bearing 

 hairs, as in Paphia; in colour it was deep reddish- 

 ochreous, finely freckled with rather paler reddish flesh- 

 colour and with black ; the dorsal line with the paler 

 freckles was distinct throughout and passed through 

 the semilunar black velvety mark at the beginning of 

 each segment ; along the sides were longitudinal triple 

 sets of ragged black velvety streaks, like slashes in 

 a doublet (the second row of spines standing in their 

 midst), and a somewhat V-shaped black mark, wanting 

 the point, was visible towards the end of a segment ; 

 the black marks were all most delicately edged with 

 freckles of the paler colour, the bulbous base of each 

 spine deep strawberry red; the head red, thickly 

 freckled with black ; the extreme tips of the subdorsal 

 spines were black, all the others ochreous, the finer 

 branches black; belly dark red, finely freckled with 

 ochreous ; anterior legs black. When feeding its meals 

 were taken in a most rapid or hurried manner. 



On the 29th of June the Rev. J. Hellins sent me one 

 of his larvae of Argynnis Adijipe, he having now only 

 two left, one large and one small. The one he sent 

 me was about one inch and a quarter in length, quite 

 of a dingy pinkish-brown, minutely freckled with paler 

 atoms. On the 12th July I figured it when it was an inch 

 and a half long and stout in proportion, coloured just 

 as before, the spines pinkish ochreous, the dorsal line 

 a paler tint of pinkish flesh-colour ; the beginning of 

 a segment had the usual black velvety semilunar mark, 

 finely edged on either side by pale violet ; the segmental 

 folds were violet ; near them were a few dark freckles 

 on either side of the dorsal line, and this line was a little 

 obscured with the brown colouring on the middle of 

 each segment. 



On the 12th of July the Rev. J. Hellins had a larva 

 of Adippe spin up ; on the 17th of July I received from 

 him the pupa, suspended by the tail. It was a little 

 more than three quarters of an inch in length and 



