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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



Observation. — Examples from Ceylon seem to agree fairly well 

 with Zeller's description of tengstroemi and are, I think, identical. 

 The fore-tibia is thickened apically with scales, and carries two 

 small points which seem to be composed of acuminate scale-tufts ; 

 I should scarcely describe these as " long whitish spines "* which, 

 by Zeller's description, should project from this scale-thickening. 



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Deuterocopus rubrodactylus, Pag. 



Rubrodactylus. — Pag., Zoologica, XXIX., 241 ; Meyr., T. E. S., 

 1907, 473. 

 ■-•Tengstroemi.— Meyr. (nee Zell.), B. J., XVI L., 134. 



Distribution. — Puttalam, Galle. 



Recorded also from South Africa, India, New Guinea, and the 

 Bismarck Archipelago. 



Early Stages. — Ovum. — The egg is about ■ 44 mm. long by about 

 •20 mm. broad; in shape it is ovo-cylindrical, the ends rounded 

 and subequal, the mieropylar area distinctly depressed ; the surface 

 is very smooth and shining, of a very pale orange colour, suffused 

 with red at either pole. 



Larva. — A larva found at Galle on June 18, 1908, feeding on the 

 flowers of Leea sambucina (Sinh. " Bouroula ") was described as — 

 " Pale green without any markings, except red suffusion at either 

 extremity. The skin is roughened into minute knobs (like shark 

 skin) everywhere, but especially on the ventral region. A distinct 

 subsegment is formed on the posterior ventral region of abdominal 

 segments. The hairs, except (i.), are very short and inconspicuous ; 

 (i.) is short, less than breadth of segments. The hairs are trans- 

 parent whitish (glassy) and the tubercles very indistinct. The hairs 

 are longest on thoracic and anal regions. The legs are extremely 

 short and inconspicuous. There are no secondary hairs, these seem- 

 ing to be reduced to skin-points or rather rugosities of the skin." 

 (Plate E., figure 7.) 



Pupa. — A pupa found on the same occasion was brown with a 

 broad lighter ochreous-fuseous central band ; very few hairs or 

 projections. It was suspended anally to a flower stalk within a 

 slight attempt at a cocoon — a few silken threads spun around it to 

 form a spacious but flimsy enclosure, in which the pupa was fully 

 visible. The cast larval skin remained at the anal extremity of 

 Vthe pupa. Another pupa was green. 



Observation. — This seems to be the commonest form in Ceylon, 

 andgradually runsinto the more brightly-coloured ritsemoi, Wlsm. 

 In spite of Pagenstecher's observation, "Die Art diirfte .... leicht 

 zu erkennen sein," his description is very brief and poor. 



* " aus dem Knoten ragen die langen, weisslichen, auf einer Seite 



Bchwarzlichen Dornen hervor " (Zeller, Linn. Entom., VI., p. 403.) 



