We now have 11x coverage of the H. melpomene genome, all in 454 shotgun sequence reads. A preliminary assembly gives average contig size of 2662bp, and N50 ContigSize of 8207bp. So a bit of a way to go until we have a full assembly, but good progress. If anyone out there is interested in having a look at the data with a mind to contributing to its assembly/annotation or for whatever purpose, please let me know.