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but as I never saw the larvse eat anything, I doubted 

 whether they ought to have left their winter quarters 

 at all, and whether they should not have turned to 

 pupa3 in their caves. The first butterfly appeared on 

 April 30th. 



The length of a larva after hibernation was about 

 20 mm., the ground colour pale creamy white, dorsal 

 line pale reddish-brown, subdorsal line yellowish 

 edged on each side with reddish-brown, the spiracular 

 line also of the same colour ; the small spiracles dis- 

 tinct brown ; the head slightly tinged with blackish, 

 the mouth dark brown. 



The pupa is 15 mm. long, slender, nearly cylindrical, 

 the head blunt and the eyes rather prominent, with a 

 sharp spike more than 1 mm. long between them ; the 

 back swelling up on the thorax with a gradual curve, 

 and falling away again in the same manner, so that 

 the back of the abdomen is almost hollow, but curving 

 up again at the tail ; the wing-cases reaching about 

 two-thirds of the full length; the anal end rounded, 

 but with a flat spike set at the tip with a dozen or 

 more curled spines of different lengths ; the colour on 

 the back creamy white, with a very dark brown thin 

 central line from the head spike nearly to the tail, a 

 subdorsal line of pale buff bordered with reddish-brown, 

 and then a shorter buff line edged below again with 

 reddish-brown ; the wing-cases and ventral surface pale 

 flesh colour faintly tinged with dusky, the straight 

 tongue-case dark brown. (J. H., 10, 11, 85.) 



Pamphila linea. 



Plate XVII, fig. 3 (see ante, p. 139). 



In 1865, July 29th, Dr. Knaggs sent me eggs of 

 this species laid in a row in folded grass, but how he 

 managed to get the butterfly to lay them I do not 

 know; the larvre hatched on August 12th; most of 



