76 AEGYNNIS SELENE. 



the second, third, and fourth segments being excep- 

 tionally tipped with black, while the two lateral pairs 

 are whitish at the base. 



The ground colour of the full-grown larva is a velvety 

 smoky-pink ; there is a dark brown dorsal line, which 

 throughout its course expands and contracts twice on 

 each segment ; in front of each subdorsal spine, and 

 partially enclosing it, is a velvety black spot, delicately 

 edged with whitish, while behind each spine is a blackish 

 interrupted streak; immediately beneath the whole 

 row runs a much interrupted dark brown line ; broad 

 black spots are placed also in front of the spines in the 

 lateral row. The spiracles are black, set in ovals of a 

 pinkish tint, rather paler than the ground colour ; and 

 below them, bearing on it the subspiracular row of 

 spines, runs an inflated stripe of pinkish -red paler than 

 the ground, showing faintly and interruptedly on 

 segments three and four, but distinctly throughout the 

 remainder. The belly is of a deep pinkish ground 

 colour, freckled with dark brown on the sides ; prolegs 

 pale pink, tipped with blackish-brown ; the anterior 

 legs black and shining. 



Most of the lines or streaks are more or less broken 

 by a sort of warty or granulated texture of the skin in 

 places, each little wart being of the ground colour, 

 emitting a minute soft hair, so that the body has a 

 delicate and scattered pubescence. 



The pupa is suspended head downwards ; it is about 

 half an inch in length, thick, and obtuse in front, the 

 abdomen thickest in the middle, thinner near the 

 thorax ; on each side of this part the edges of the 

 wing-cases project, thus forming a cavity ; the tip of 

 the abdomen, viewed in profile, is blunt and rather 

 abruptly curved back to its point of attachment ; the 

 eye and antenna cases are well developed, but all angles 

 rounded off ; the subdorsal rows of the larva are still 

 represented by two rows of blunt spikelets — not very 

 projecting — along the back of the abdomen. 



In colour it is brownish-ochreous on the wing-covers, 



