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brown, or with a brown spot above their extremities ; the ventral surface 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,-8till such are to be found, especially in the region of the sub-dorsal and 
sub-spiracular stripes. 
Popidaris 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 wa/rmer in this species, while the belly, 
though paler than the back, is more dusky than in the others. 
Grammis has also a pale Une running between the spiracles and the sub-dorsal 
stripe. In this species the segmental folds offer a good character, being smoother, 
and of a different 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 gloas). 
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 Sihylla.— 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 
until 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 whnst 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 earHer 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 orfow iuds 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 been 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 
