METAMORPHOSES OF LEPIDOPTERA

FROM SANTO PAULO, BRAZIL,

IN THE FREE PUBLIC MUSEUM, LIVERPOOL.

BY

E. DUKINFIELD JONES, C.E.,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER, LIT. AND PHIL. SOC., L'POOL.

WITH NOMENCLATURE AND DESCRIPTIONS OF

NEW FORMS

BY FREDERIC MOORE, F.Z.S.

AND

AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE

By T. J. MOORE, C.M.Z.S.L.,

CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM.

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

Some few years since Mr. Dukinfield Jones, a young Civil Engineer of Liverpool, called at the Museum for the purpose of naming a small collection of Moths and Butterflies which he had collected during a recent professional visit to Brazil. Calling to mind the numerous collections of a similar kind brought home by travellers or sent from the country for mere trade purposes, I took the liberty of suggesting to him, that instead of confining his attention, on his proposed return to Brazil, to procuring and preserving Lepidoptera in their perfect state, he would obtain much more satisfactory results by collecting and studying their metamorphoses. The occupation would be in itself far more interesting, with much greater promise of additions to knowledge.

This seed of suggestion fell on good ground, as the Society is already aware from communications which I have had the honour and pleasure of bringing from time to time before its meetings. The present communication is further evidence of its author's zeal and diligence in cultivating the field suggested to him; but by no means displays all that he has accomplished. In a letter dated March 13, 1881, announcing the shipment of the collection, he makes the following statement:

"I regret that I have had to hurry greatly over the descriptions. You will probably observe that they are nothing more than dates of pupation, &c., from No. XXX, or thereabouts, to the end. I found the time was getting so short that I should not have finished them at all if I had written each as fully as I did at first. The present series