C2EN0NYMPHA PAMPHILUS. 173 



1874, but I do not know when the larvae were 

 hatched. August 11th one larva had become a pupa, 

 and the rest were about 7 mm. in length. August 

 22nd the butterfly appeared, whilst the rest of the 

 brood were still larvae, and just then passing through 

 a moult ; and these hibernated in the larva state, for 

 on February 13th, 1875, I noted the fact that one of 

 them was sunning itself on the covering of its cage. 

 It seems the knowledge that Mr. Buckler had figured 

 the larva in previous years more than once, kept me in 

 this case, as well as in so many others, from making 

 full notes. I may add that in ' Ent. Mo. Mag.,' vol. 

 VI, p. 223, there is a note to the effect that Von 

 Prittwitz found Pamphilus to be one of the species 

 which pass the winter in the egg state; my record 

 above does not seem to agree with this view, but then 

 I have no note of eggs laid by the second flight of the 

 butterflies in August. 



The egg is somewhat bucket-shaped, with flattish 

 base and top, and upright sides, broader at the base 

 than above ; the sides with nearly fifty small irregular 

 ribs, and faint transverse reticulation, the top thimble- 

 pitted all over, the shell glossy, pale green at first, 

 turning in a day or two to whitish, freckled and 

 ringed with pale yellowish-brown. The full-grown 

 larva is about 20 mm. long, with rounded head, the 

 body more tapering backwards than in front, the last 

 segment with two short points ; the colour a clear 

 green, with darker green dorsal stripe, and a spira- 

 cular stripe not so dark ; the anal points pink. The 

 pupa is rather over 11 mm. in length, plump, but with 

 the headpiece somewhat squared ; the abdomen ending 

 in a short, stout, rather flattened and curved spike, the 

 tip of which is thickly set with curled spines, well 

 adapted for holding on to the silk pad; the colour 

 mostly green. (J. H., 9, 11, 85.) 



The following very short note on the pupa of 

 C. Pamphilus occurs in one of Mr. Buckler's Note 

 Books (I, p. 70) : 



