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the upper-side and therefere looks double-pointed; it is black, which colour it 

 only seems to get after one of the last moultings; in earlier stages its colour 

 is the same as that of the body. Immediately after the moult here mentioned, 

 the head, however, has still the same colour as the body; only gradually it 

 gets darker, till after about an hour it has turned black, or at least so dark 

 green by the increase of the black pigment, that it looks like black. But I do 

 not know for certain whether all the caterpillars get the black head, or whether 

 perhaps part of them that have not yet enough advanced in this process of 

 evolution, retain the general colour of the body just as those ot T. Sari Horsf. 

 The chrysalis is pale green, sometimes mottled with very dark green or 

 black spots ; there are also some which are yellow or dark-brown and even 

 dark-yellow. The head ends in a pointed snout, which is sometimes white. 

 It has the peculiar shape common to the Terias pupae. When the larvae 

 are very plentiful, as in 1 894 at Buitenzorg, many pupae may be seen hanging 

 on the stems of the leaves of the foodplant which have been eaten ; and then 

 they look like small fruit, seeds or withered leaves, but whether this greatly 

 protects them, as de Nic^ville boldly pretends, should certainly require clearer 

 proofs. Some butterflies emerged from the chrysalides on the 4'^^, others on 

 the 6^ or j^^ day. According to Dr. Martin the eggs are laid singly, or 

 sometimes in a rhomboid shape on the leaves of the foodplant. Of the figures 

 given by Horsfield and Moore only that of the pupa has succeeded tolerably 

 well. Mine are also better than those in Moore's Lepidoptera of Ceylon. 



5. Sari Horsf. (PI. IV fig. 4, a, b, c, d.) 



Horsfield, Cat. Lep. ^. /. C /. 136 (1828) Terias Sari. 



Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 305 //. 2^ fig. 3,//. 267?^. 7 (1882 — 86) „ „ . 



Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India p. 2^^ fig. 64 (1907). ... „ „ . 



W. J. Batavia (3 — 14), Buitenzorg (265), Tjampea (160), Soukapoura (65) 

 in the province of Prajangan. I also received them from the districts near 

 the Tjiletou or Sandbay on the south-coast of Java, and from mount Karang 

 in Bantam. In the above named collection of butterflies, gathered in the heart 

 of the dry season at Batavia, the number of fresh specimens of this species was 

 particularly large and compared with those of Terias Hecabe L. much larger 

 than among those caught during the wet season, though during that period 

 too Terias Sari Horsf. was not scarce. 



C. J. Magelang (± 500). 



E. J. According to Fruhstorfer common in the mountains along the 

 south coast. 



