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rather stout in proportion. The thorax keeled on the 

 rounded swelling back, thence a deep depression, from 

 which the abdomen swelled out -in a gentle backward 

 curve, which increased just towards the tip of the tail ; 

 two rows of rather blunt pointed obtuse projecting 

 spines represented the subdorsal spines of the larva. 

 The wing-covers were long and well developed, and by 

 the side of the thorax their margins stood boldly out- 

 wards with a prominent ridge, forming the greatest 

 breadth of the outline in front. The head was some- 

 what squarish in outline. 



At this time the colour was of a pitchy brownish 

 blackness with a row of dorsal diamond shapes of less 

 intensity of colour, the margins of the wing-covers 

 deep brownish-ochreous, the spiky projections golden 

 and brilliantly glistening — all the rest of the surface 

 glistening. 



Of the larvge previously mentioned, that which I 

 had received from the Hev. J. Hellins spun itself up 

 under one of the leaves of its violet plant, and there 

 died, only partly changed, an aborted pupa. The 

 other which I reared from the egg died whilst still 

 in the larva state, on the earth beneath the food- 

 plant. 



The only way I can account for these misfortunes 

 is in supposing that they were kept too hot in the 

 sunny window. (W. B., Note-Book III, 210.) 



On the 7th of August, 1882, I received from Mr. 

 W. H. B. Fletcher about twenty-six eggs of Argynnis 

 Adijjpe, laid upon leno and standing on their bases by 

 which they adhered. The shape of the egg is conical, with 

 the base rather rounded, it has apparently about fifteen 

 projecting ribs, some of them shorter than the others, 

 the longest extend nearly to the apex, but do not quite 

 meet there, a small central circle being left plain, and 

 the ribs are beaded or reticulated ; a few are pale straw 

 colour, but the rest are only this colour at the base for a 

 short distance, their upper part being rose-red, others 

 are wholly red, all have a narrow whitish faint zone 



