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rare occurrenco, and like^vise of tlie pupa, worthy 
of notice for its short ovate shape. The caterpillar 
of Nyinphalis Amphinome (drami on a plant which 
our author calls Indian Jasmine, hut which is the 
Plumieria ruhra of Linn.) is distinguished by 
having its head surrounded with a coronet of eight 
occipital spines, and two long anal horns, similar to 
those in the caterpillar , of the common puss moth 
( Cerura vimda J, but to all appearance not en- 
closing tentacula, as is the case in the instance just 
mentioned. Although Pap. Nestor is asserted to 
have been' produced from the catcrjiillar on the 
pomegranate branch (Plate ix.), there is some reason 
to doubt the accuracy of this statement, as its form 
and oblique lateral stripes rather indicate its con- 
nexion with the crepuscular or nocturnal lepidoptera. 
Plate XI. affords good representations of the two 
sexes of a conspicuous moth, Attacus Erythrince, 
and a beautiful species of the plant from which the 
insect obtains its name. “ If we can depend on 
the drawings of the larvie,” says IVIr. Guilding, 
“ and the accompanying statements, we have here 
an extraordinary instance of the change which 
takes place dimng the development of the larva. 
I have myself, as well as other observers, witnessed 
the disappearance of spots, the alteration of colour, 
and the variations in the clothing of caterpillars, 
but have never noticed such great changes as are 
here described. The yellow larva at its first moult- 
ing exchanges its transverse bands for lateral spots ; 
at the second, the six strong spines which defend 
