176 CYNTHIA CAKDUI. 



The pupa is suspended by the tail, it is about 

 22 mm. in length, stout, and though following the 

 usual Vanessa pattern, more rounded in its form ; the 

 head has a pair of very short, blunt horns, the back of 

 the thorax swells up in a round curve, with a short 

 blunt spike in the middle, and falls in at the waist; the 

 abdomen swells out a little and then curves away 

 regularly to the tail ; the belly outline is much less 

 curved, the anal spike is like a short curved leaf-stalk 

 ending abruptly, and is set round with a ring of hooked 

 spines ; down the back there is a middle row of six 

 blunt knobs, and a subdorsal row of nine on each side. 

 I had two varieties of coloration ; the darker variety 

 had the back pale dusky brown finely dotted with black, 

 down the middle of the back an interrupted stripe of 

 pale pinkish grey glossed with gold, the subdorsal knobs 

 golden, and outside them on the abdomen a stripe of 

 pinkish grey ; on the under side the wing-cases 

 brownish somewhat marked with the pinkish-grey tint, 

 the antenna-cases darker and more smoky, the abdomen 

 mostly pinkish, but with central and lateral stripes 

 more smoky ; on the under side of the head a pale, 

 square spot, and short pale lines running out to the 

 short horns ; the paler variety had all these same 

 markings, but the dusky portions much less extensive, 

 and the general colouring greenish with a golden 

 glossing or lustre. (J. H., 28, 10, 85.) 



Vanessa Atalanta. 



Plate VIII, ^g. 2. 



I have not many records of this species; perhaps 

 one of my most pleasant entomological memories is 

 that of seeing the butterfly in good condition flying 

 about during a gleam of sunshine on the morning of 

 Christmas day, 1866; at last it settled on a child's 

 shoulder, and was an object of admiration for some 



