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Genus LOXURA Horsf. 



frr Atymnus Cram. (PI. XXVII, i-j6a,6,c). 



Cramer, IV, p. 82,//. 331 D. L. (1782) Papilio Atymnus. 



HoRSFiELD, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, p. 121, No. 49 (1828). . Loxura 

 ,, » ., ,, „ „ //• 2, fig. 6, ba—c (1828). Myrina 



BoiSDUVAL, Spec. Gen., I, pi. 7, fig. 3 (1836) Loxura 



Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 281, Tab. 24, fig. 7 (1882 — 86). 

 Staudinger, Exot. Schm., S. 278, Taf. 95 (1884 — 88). 

 DE NiCEViLLE, Butt. of India, III,/. /^'^b,pl 2<^, fig. 232 (1890) 

 SwiNHOE, Lep. Ind., IX, /. 213, pi. 744, fig. i — !<: ( i g i i — 12) 

 Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., LXI, /. 221 (191 1). 

 CouRvoisiER, Tijdschr. v. EnL, LV, bldz. 19 (1912) . 



Fruhstorfer assumes two sub-species of this species in Java, one from 

 E. J. which he calls Matienus and the other from W. J. Deinostratus and 

 further describes an albino form from W. J. under the name of Emana. 



I cannot, however, from my specimens confirm the differences which he 

 enumerates. My specimens from W. J. and E. J. seem to me only to differ 

 slightly sexually, in this respect that in the cT, the colour of the upperside is 

 darker than in the 9, and on the upperside of the secondaries there is more 

 black, all of which moreover varies somewhat in individuals. But this occurs 

 both in W. J. and in E. J. 



W. J. Batavia (3 — 14); Depok (95); Tjampea (160) ; Soukaboumi (600) ; 

 Soukapoura (70) ; vicinity of Pelabouan Ratou or the Wijnkoopsbay on the 

 south coast (150). 



C. J. Touban on the north coast; Tjandi near Semarang (60) (Jacobson). 



E. J. Loumadjang (345); Tengger mts. (700); mountains along the south 

 coast (Fruhstorfer) ; mnt. WiUis. 



The larva on the leaf of Smilax anceps Voldd. It is sometimes dark red 

 mixed with green, sometimes green with a little brown ; in this it corresponds 

 in colour to the plant on which it lives, the full-grown leaves of which are 

 green, while the younger leaves and the leaf stalks are parUy reddish. The 

 pupa lies on a leaf or a leaf stalk fastened by a girdle-thread, is somewhat 

 bent and handsome light green with a broad light grey dorsal stripe, which 

 at the head end joins with the light grey and light brown mottling which covers 

 the wing covers. A pupa of Jan. 5'^ produced an imago on the 15'*" ot 

 the month. 



