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Elves, Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, 1892, /. 618. . . Gerydus Boisduvalii. 

 Druce, „ „ „ „ „ 1895, /. 561, //. 31, 



fig. g, 10 „ Vinculus. 



Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. II, /. 292 (1907) „ Boisduvalii. 



SwiNHOE, Lep. Ind., VII, /. 189,//. t\,fig. 1-1^(1905—10) „ „ 



CouRVOisiER, Jav. Lye. Tijdschr. v. Entom., LV., /. i 5 (i 9 1 2) „ „ 



Fruhstorfer, Uebersicht der Gerydinae, Zeitsc/ir. f. iviss. 



Insektenbiologie, IX, 5. 308 (1913) . . . „ „ 



„ (Seitz, Groszschm. d. Erde), /. 81 7, //. 14 le 



(19 1 6) " .. 



W. J. Batavia (3 — 14); Depok (95); Tjampea (160); Buitenzorg (205); 

 vicinity of the Tjiletou or Sandbay on the south coast (± 150); Prayangan mts. 

 (600 — 800) Fruhstorfer. 



C. J. One specimen, with no further indication of the place of capture. 



E. J. Pouspa (630); Tengger mts. (100); Kedyry (64). 



In this species there occurs, apparently, exactly the same process of dar- 

 kening as in M. Symethus Cram., here, also, rainy or dry season, east or west 

 of Java, make no difference in the colour. They are usually, especially the 

 males, lighter on the underside than shown in the illustration; there is also 

 more white upon the upperslde of the primaries. This white is usually, but 

 not always, more extensive in the females than in the males, in the last being 

 often very much reduced. In Java, it is never so extensive as in the specimen 

 from the dry season, reproduced by Swinhoe on pi. 613. 



According to Moore in the work quoted above, seemingly confirmed by 

 DE NiCEViLLE in Butterflies oi India, III (1890), and referred to by Prof. 

 Courvoisier, the larva lives upon Coccina, which is found on pinang and other 

 kinds of palm, and is supposed to be cultivated by the ant Dolichoderus 

 BiTUBERCULATUS Mayr. Jacobson saw the larvae on pinang leaves, entirely 

 covered by ants, so that he imagined that, like many aphididae, they secrete 

 a sweet fluid, which is collected by ants ; it would seem, therefore, that these 

 larvae, like the Coccina species, were cultivated by the ants, but that the former- 

 many Lycaenidae-larvae are carnivorous— also eat the Coccina. He also saw 

 the female of this Miletus species, entirely surrounded by ants on a pinang 

 leaf, laying eggs, without apparently minding the ants at all. 



4. BiGGsii Dist. (PI. XIX, 11). 



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Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 206, Tab. 22, fig 12 (1882 — 86) Gerydus Biggsil. 



Bingham, Fatuia of Brit. India, Butt. II, />. 295 (1907) • 



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