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Bingham mentions that the larva is also found on the same plant in 

 British India, and gives a description of the larva and pupa which differs 

 slightly but not essentially from mine. 



6. Plinius F. (PI. XX, 34a, b, c). 



Hesperia Plinius. 

 Papilio „ 



Tarucus „ 



Fabricius, Ent. Sysf., Ill, i, /. 284, No. 92 (1793) . 

 Donovan, Ins. of India, pi. 45, //>. i (1800) 

 Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, I, /. 82, //. 36, //V. 4 (1881) 

 DE NiCEViLLE, Butt. of India, III, /. 194 (1890) 

 Bingham, Fauna of Biit. India, Butt. II, /. 420 (1907) 

 SwiNHOE, Lep. Ind., VIII, /. 49, //. 651, fig. 2 — 2d 



(1910 — 11) Syn tarucus 



W. J. Batavia (3 — 14); Buitenzorg (2G5): province of Prayangan. 



C. J. In the vicinity of Touban, on the south coast. 



E. J. Mount Ardjouno (i.ooo); Kedyry (64); Pouspa (630). 



In this butterfly I cannot find the seasonal differences either, which, accor- 

 ding to SwiNHOE, exists in British India. The butterfly is very common in 

 Java, and I possess various females, but in none of them can I find the broad 

 black band upon the upperside of the primaries as on the wet-season brood 

 female be reproduces. The only thing is that the black marking on the upper- 

 side of the primaries of the female seems in general to be more compact in 

 the specimens from E. Java than those from W. Java. 



RoBER — as Snellen here notes {Ti/dschri/t v. Ent., 1891, p. 303), inclines 

 to combine this species with the species L. Telicanus Lang, found In Europe 

 and Africa ; so far no transitional forms are, however, known to me. The blue 

 of the upperside of this species is darker and more purple than in Plinius, 

 and the ground of the underside more grey, while the dark grey transverse 

 stripe on the primaries is distinctly straighter. 



The larva, of the usual Lycaena form, and in which I found the parasitical 

 fly Leiosia Flavisquama Wulp, feeds on the flowers of Plumbago Capensis 

 Thumb. It varies very much in ground-colour, which is sometimes green in 

 all possible shades, and sometimes lighter or darker red or brown, upon which 

 is a darker dorsal stripe not extending to the i^' thoracic segment and becoming 

 narrower towards the end. The colour of back and sides is mixed with white, 

 or whitish. On the ventral edge also a whitish line. The head is dark. The 

 pupa also light or dirty olive green, but sometimes red or brownish with fine 

 darker marbling and a darker dorsal line. Pupae of Febr. 26''^ and 28'*^ 

 produced butterflies on March 2°*^ and 7'''. 



