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NYMPHALIDAE 
Just before pupation, the whole colouring turns much paler, 
the purple band fades to dull green* 
The larva usually attains full growth about the beginning 
of June, when it attaches itself by the hind claspers to a 
pad of silk spun on the stem or base of a leaf stalk of Honey¬ 
suckle, and hangs suspended until pupation. The larval state 
occupies at least ten months. 
Pupa. The pupa averages 22 mm. in length. The head 
has a pair of ear-like projections ; the thorax rises to a lobed 
keel, and the base of the thorax is sunken. On the second 
abdominal segment is a very prominent medio-dorsal keel ; 
the abdomen is then concaved to the seventh segment ; the 
eighth and ninth segments taper abruptly, the wings being 
rather swollen at the middle. The 
pupa bears a close resemblance to a 
profile portrait of “ Punch/' 
The ground colour is light green ; 
the side of the abdomen, the second 
and third segments and the dorsal 
keel are olive-brown, which colour 
spreads over the pro-thorax and 
ear-like lobes ; the wings and neura- 
tion are outlined with brown, and 
an oblique, reticulated, sub-marginal 
olive line crosses the wing, also a 
few olive streaks and speckles are spread over the head, thorax 
and limbs. The pupa is very beautifully adorned with brilliant 
burnished silver-gilt on the head, pro-thorax, meta-thorax, 
first abdominal segment and the edges of the second and third 
segments ; the edges of the green on the abdomen are also 
washed with silver, and there are also brilliant silver oblong 
patches. 
Both the pattern and colouring is exceptionally beautiful 
and obviously serves as a great protection against its enemies, 
owing to its very close resemblance to a partly-dead and 
curled-up leaf of Honeysuckle with beads of dew or raindrops 
adhering and sparkling in the rays of sunlight penetrating the 
trailing foliage. 
The pupa is suspended by the cremastral hooks to a pad 
of silk of a light coppery colour. Just before emerging the 
Hibernacula of the larvae 
of the White Admiral. 
