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brown, or with a brown spot above their extremities ; the ventral snrfaoe varying 

 in tint, but in all shining and semi-translucent. 



Owing to the brilliancy of their skin, the play of light on the polished surface 

 makes a close scrutiny indispensable to detect all the distinguishing marks of each 

 species, — still such are to be found, especially in the region of the sub-dorsal and 

 sub-spiracular stripes. 



Popularis then has a rather pale narrow line, edged with blackish, running 

 along midway in the space above mentioned, all the pale stripes being uninterupted. 

 Perhaps, too, the bronzy gloss of the back is warmer in this species, while the belly, 

 though paler than the back, is more dusky than in the others. 



Qraminis has also a pale line running between the spiracles and the sub-dorsal 

 stripe. In this species the segmental folds oflfer a good character, being smoother, 

 and of a diflferent tint from the back, — in fact, catching the eye as narrow trans- 

 verse bands ; the whole skin also is much wrinkled transversely ; and there are 

 transverse pale streaks in the space alluded to between the sub-dorsal and sub- 

 spiracular stripes, viz., three above the pale line, and two below it, on each segment. 

 The sub-spiracular stripe is wider than in the other species (and the belly seems to 

 have rather a pale golden-brown gloss). 



Cespitis has, in the space between the sub-dorsal stripe and sub-spiracular, 

 three ragged and irregular, rather paler, longitudinal lines, a little meandering in 

 character, and edged here and there with darker, and being more or less obscure ; 

 and the belly and legs in this species are decidedly tinted with green. — Wm. Buckler, 

 Emsworth. 



Note on the earlier stages oj Limenitis Sibylla. — Some years ago this butterfly 

 was plentiful enough in the woods in this vicinity, and thinking I could at any time 

 be able to study its history, I postponed any attempt to obtain its egg or larva 

 nntil I should have worked out other species sent to me from a distance, and 

 which I could not hope to have always at hand. 



But since that horribly cold and wet season of 1860-1, I have never seen a 

 single specimen, and apparently, as far as this locality is concerned, Sibylla (and 

 I may add A. Iris also) was then exterminated. 



However, through the kindness of Mr. C. G. Barrett, and his indefatigable 

 exertions whilst at Haslemere, I have been able to study and figure the larva, my 

 notes on its appearance when full grown, as well as on the pupa, having been 

 already published, E. M. M., vol. iv., 33 ; and I would now offer some account of 

 it at an earUer stage— not as being able to disclose something entirely new, but as 

 describing exactly what I have seen. 



The hybemaculum which Mr. Barrett sent me, was placed as he describes it, 

 "three or four huds down from the tip of a twig shooting out from the main stalks 

 of a great honeysuckle-bine, which climbed up a fir tree ; the twig chosen for this 

 purpose sloped a little upwards, but he could not discover any hybemaculum that 

 could be fairly called pendulous. 



The one I have before me is made of a honeysuckle leaf, which had boon first 

 partly bitten through near its axil, and then securely fixed by its two edges for 

 about half its length to the twig from which it grew, and across which its edges 

 were firmly bound with a spinning of strong silk ; the remainder of the leaf curved 



