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but no other member of its group ; 1 Ithomia znrepha, but in 

 this case also no other member of the group ; 16 ceratima 

 vallo7iia, 1 Napeogenes 'pheranthes, another obvious member of 

 the same group, and 4 ceratinia harii, a more outlying member. 

 The Hesperiid Hesperia syrichthus was the only butterfly out 

 of the 323 which did not fall into one of the Ithomiine 

 combinations. 



IMr. J. C. Kershaw communicated a note on the larv^a and 

 pupa of Clerome eumeus, Drury, as follows : — 



"No recent description has, I believe, been published on 

 the habits of Clerome eumeus, Drury, and, so far as I am 

 aware, the larva has never been figured or described. 



" For the following references to the literature on this 

 insect I am indebted to Mr. Fi^ancis A. Heron :— Pupa 

 described by J. J. Walker in Trans. Eut. Soc, 1895, p. 450; 

 Drury's 'Illus. Exotic Ent.,' vol. i (1773), and Cramer's 

 'Pap. Exot.,' vol. ii (1777), Trans. Ent. Soc, 1858, p. 183. 

 The larva is smooth, cylindrical, Indian or salmon-red on the 

 eatire upper surface, the articulations of the .segments marked 

 in black. Sides and back sprinkled with whitish hairs. Under 

 surface and legs black. Head Ijlack, upper part of clypeus 

 bifid. About If inches in length when full-grown. The 

 spiracles indistinctly marked. The larva feeds on Smilax 

 lancea^folia, a common climbing plant in South China, growing 

 as a rule amongst thick jungle — a smooth-stemmed creeper, 

 with large lanceolate shiny green leaves, broad and rounded 

 at the base, of thick texture and glaucous beneath. 



"The larvae usually feed in little colonies, and have a habit 

 when not feeding of resting side by side on the under surface 

 of a leaf, perhaps half-a-dozen together, so closely packed as 

 to touch one another. 



" The pupa is smooth, of a light pea-green, the apex of 

 abdomen, from which the pupa is slung without a girdle, 

 blue bifid, tips yellow. The insect is more or less on the wing 

 throughout the year, having several broods, some emerging in 

 January and February, the larvse feeding in November and 

 December. 



^^ Clerome eimieus is very common in the districts I'ound 

 Hongkong and Macao, and may sometimes be seen in the 



