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lines. Pupae of April i 7'^ Sept. 4''', Nov. 24'^ and Dec. i^', produced butter- 

 flies on April 26"', Sept. is"', Nov. 30* and Dec. 8"^. 



De Niceville gives a description of the larva and pupa, which, although 

 somewhat more minute than mine, agrees with it on the whole, but the habits 

 of the larva which he describes seem to differ considerably from what I observed. 

 He did not find them inside pods, but upon Phaseolus trilobus L. and according 

 to other observers whom he mentions, upon Dolictos Catjang Roxb. And, 

 according to Mrs. Wylly in symbiosis with a large black species of ant. 

 (Canponotus Rubripes, Drury = Sylvaticus F., subspecies Compressus F.). 

 Although I have collected and bred many of these larvae, I have never noticed 

 that they have any connection with ants. 



35. Pandava Horsf. (PI. XXUa, 5). 



HoRSFiELD, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, p. 84, No. 1 9 (1828) Lycaena Pandava. 



Distant, i?//o/. Mai., p. 225, Tab. 21, fig. 17 (1882 — 86) Catochrysops „ 

 Semper, Schmeil. d. Phil., I, 5. 187, Tab. ZZ, fig. 13 



(1886 — 92) „ Vapanda. 



DE NioiviLLE, Butt, of India, p. i^t^, pi. 2'],fig. 187(1890) „ Pandava. 



Bingham, Fatma of Brit. Ind., Butt. 11,/. 413 (1907) „ „ 



SwiNHOE, Lep. Ind., VIII, /. 37, //. 649, fig. i — \d 



(19 10 — 11) Edales „ 



CouRVOisiER, Tifdschr. v. Ent. , LV, bid. 16. . . . Catochrysops „ 



Almost all my specimens are from Batavia. I see little difference in size 

 between individuals. 



W. J. Batavia (3 — 14); Preanger mts. (1000); vicinity of the Wijnkoopsbay 

 or Palabouan Ratou (± 150) on the south coast. 



C. J. Srondol (200) (Jacobson). 



C. J. ? 



Snellen is of opinion that the Catochrysops Nicila Swinhoe belongs to 

 this species. Specimens such as de Niceville gives on plate XXVII fig. 1 88, 

 as the dry season form, do not seem to occur in Java. 



I found the larvae in quantities upon Cycas Circinalis L. They are of 

 the usual Lycaenid form, green or brown, with darker dorsal line, and feed 

 upon the pith of the young shoots, making holes in them into which they 

 creep entirely or partially. The small pupae are light brown, dirty or dark 

 green, mottled with black, and with a black dorsal line. Larvae from July 7''' 

 and Nov. 7''' produced butterflies on July 13''' and Nov. 12'''. The larvae on 



