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N The Century, for June, 1883, Mr. Gosse, described a monument, in which the sculptor had carved a child holding out her hand for butterflies to perch on. He went on to say that this was criticised as improbable, even by so exact an observer as the late Lord Tennyson. It may therefore be of some interest to record the following facts from my personal experience.

One summer I watched the larvæ of the swallow, tailed butterfly through their different stages, and reserved two chrysalides to develop into the