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(Sepedon Latr.) have the pupa shaped like a boat. That 

 of Sccevcl Pyrastri F. assumes the figure of a flask ; or, 

 according to Reaumur's more accurate comparison, of a 

 tear a . The tail of many of these pupae, particularly of 

 aquatic species, is elongated into a sort of beak, either 

 simple or forked, or is beset with spines variously ar- 

 ranged. The pupa of Stratyomis Chamceleon, and other 

 allied species, differs from all the rest of this subdivision 

 in retaining the exact form of the larva b ; and hence con- 

 stitutes an exception to the general character of our se- 

 cond great Division. 



iii. There is much less variety in the colour of pupae 

 than in that of larvae. The majority of coleopterous and 

 hymenopterous pupae are white, or whitish ; of lepido- 

 pterous and dipterous, brown of various shades, often 

 verging on black in the former and on red in the latter. 

 The angular lepidopterous ones, however, are more 

 gaily decorated. Some, Pieris Brassicce, are of a greenish 

 yellow, marked with spots of black; others are of a uni- 

 form green, Apatura Iris, Pieris Cardamines ; others, red- 

 dish, Vanessa C. album; others again red with black 

 spots, Urania Leilus c . A still greater number shine as 

 though gilded with burnished gold — either applied in 

 partial streaks, Vanessa Cardui ; or covering the entire 

 surface, Vanessa Urticce. It was from this gilded appear- 

 ance in some obtected pupae that the terms Chrysalis and 



others, I am not aware : in my catalogue it stands under the name of 

 Tyrophaga. 



a Reaum. iii. 376. t. xxxi./ 7- 



b Ibid. iv. 318. t. xxiii./. 1—4. xxv./. 1. 



e Ins. Surinam, t. xxix. 



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