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brown on the abdomen and thorax, and darker brown 

 round the concave part of the abdomen ; on the begin- 

 ning of the keel of the thorax is a black V mark pointing 

 towards the head, with a silvery metallic spot on either 

 side, and one on each side of the head ; other metallic 

 spots are at the base of the four pairs of spikelets next 

 the thorax, the first pair the largest : towards the tip 

 of the abdomen three pairs of the spikelets have a dark 

 brown curved streak from each, uniting in front, and 

 pointing forwards. The spiracles are plainly visible 

 and black ; behind them is a stripe of pale brown. The 

 wing-cases have at their terminal borders two large 

 blotches of black, another towards the middle, one at 

 the base of the wing and one on each of the eyes ; the 

 ground colour most delicately reticulated with blackish - 

 brown. 



Unlike its congener Euphrosyne, the larva of Selene 

 has an aversion to the sun's rays, and does not at any 

 stage of its larval existence care to expose itself to 

 their direct influence, but reposes either on the under- 

 sides of the leaves of the food-plants, or else on the 

 stems while shaded more or less by the leaves, and 

 feeds while young, and indeed nearly up to its last 

 moult, on the youngest and tenderest leaves of the 

 violet, but thenceforward has a more accommodating 

 appetite, and attacks without much choice any of the 

 mature leaves, eating out large portions of them at a 

 time, and in a few days making considerable ravages 

 on the plant. (W. B. 13, 8, 70; E.M.M. VII, 114) 



Aegynnis Eupheosyne. 

 Plate XI, fig. 2. 



For many years the adult larva of Euphrosyne had 

 eluded the care and search not of myself only but of 

 several of my friends. 



We did not find any difficulty in getting a female to 

 lay its eggs, which in due course hatched and produced 



