126 THYMELE ALVEOLUS. 



and collar very dark purplish-brown, the upper lip 

 paler. 



The pupa is enclosed in a cave between two or three 

 leaves, similar to that in which the larva lives, but 

 fastened with stouter silk, and the openings protected 

 by a loose pale yellow webbing. Its length is not quite 

 half an inch, the figure thick and stumpy ; the eyes 

 prominent, the wing-cases well developed ; the whole 

 skin rather rough ; the middle of the head, the eyes, 

 and the back set with short stiff hairs, the ground- 

 colour reddish-grey, the wing-cases pinkish-grey ; the 

 abdomen tinged with brownish-red along the back ; on 

 the centre of the head, on the eyes, and on either side 

 of the thorax above the wing-cases, are some blackish- 

 brown marks ; there are smaller marks in pairs down 

 the middle of the thorax, and there are transverse 

 rows of spots on the segments of the abdomen, the 

 largest and darkest being next the wing-cases ; the 

 hairs are light brownish-red; the anterior spiracle is 

 black, the others of the grey ground-colour, ringed 

 with black, and placed within the largest dark blotches. 

 (J. H., 11, 2, 75; E.M.M. XI, 236.) 



I hardly know if it is worth recording that a larva, 

 reared from an egg deposited by a butterfly of the type 

 form, has resulted in an imago of the variety lavateixe, 

 Haw. (J. H., 17, 11, 75 ; E.M.M. XII, 232.) 



Thanaos Tages. 

 Plate XVI, fig. 3. 



On the 28th of May, 1868, I happened to meet with 

 this species on the wing in a thicket and brought home 

 with me three specimens alive ; and luckily having a 

 plant of Lotus comiculatus potted, I covered it with a 

 glass cylinder and placed them therein. 



After a few days I saw that two of the butterflies 

 were dead, whilst the third still looked lively, and 

 fortunately proving to be an impregnated female, she 



