lemonias I. 
This caterpillar was slow in all its movements, rested for hours in one spot did 
not care for much concealment immediately after a moult and in the mfddle of 
the stage, but when another moult approached, shut itself up closely and was 
only to be seen one or two days after the moult had passed. It did not eat of the 
eaf which enclosed it, as so many caterpillars which conceal themselves in leases 
do, but went to an outside leaf to feed. And it eat very little as compared with 
spec.es of Lyctena or of Thecla, which I have had. As so little is known of7“ 
™ 7 ges f 0f ®" y ° f the I f m0nlIn *’ these particulars are somewhat important 
The eggs of iVms are in shape very like those of Lycama PseudaraMul and 
similarly are covered with a reticulated coating. But the meshes TthS are 
five-sided, whereas m the Lycama they are four-sided, and rhomboidal In 
lecla Henna. the meshes are three-sided. Each angle of the netting in JYais 
sends up a fi amentous spine, but in L. Palmerii these are replaced by rounded 
The cate" m 1 m ° re , “ 1 Style ° f both the ‘™d Thecla mentioned 
C caterpillars have heads partly covered by the second segment, but neither 
. nor eet are retractile, as m the Lycaenidae. The tubercles and their ap 
pendages in the several rows are alike in shape and number from 3 to 12 and f„ 
this respective differs from all spined butterfly larv* known to ml The 
nnges o ong hairs around the entire base of the body, and fallino- over the 
ead, are also peculiar. The chrysalis is girt with a belt, as^in the Lyclidm but 
U is more m the middle ; and the abdomen is remarkably elongated no turned 
under at the extremity, and is thickly clothed with bristling hfirs 
