14 MODERN ARRANGEMENT OF 
b. The central areola of the lower wings posteriorly closed. 
The genera are Pavonia, Brassorvs, Eurisivs, and 
Saryrus. 
In the Dutch work, De Wonderen Gods, we have 
the following interesting information concerning the 
transformations of the Alderman Butterfly, dm- 
miralis Atalanta of Rennie, by J. C. Sepp of Am- 
sterdam :— 
“ Like all other butterflies, this species originates 
from an egg, which, however, is very rarely met 
with, because it is very small and green ; almost 
indeed of the same colour as the stinging nettle, 
(Urtica dioica,) on which it is laid by the mother 
butterfly, and therefore easily overlooked. 
« Although I had found, for many years succes~ 
sively, and in considerable numbers, the caterpillars 
and the butterflies of this species, I was long un- 
successful in procuring any of the eggs; but at last 
I succeeded, having found one on the 6th of July, 
at the very moment the mother butterfly had laid it, 
and it hatched as well as any other of this class. 
I found others afterwards, which had perhaps been 
longer deposited, and they likewise hatched, and I 
reared butterflies from them ; so that now I know 
their whole manner of life, and their several trans- 
formations, and am enabled to detail these to the 
reader from my own observation. 
« Ag soon as the infant caterpillar is hatched, 
it begins to eat directly, and to look out for a place 
