44.4 Lieut.-Colonel N. Manders on the 
Cupido (Cacyreus) lingeus, Cram. 
Not hitherto recorded, and quite a recent introduction. 
I found it commonly in the Botanical Gardens, Curepipe 
on Coleus hybrida, on which the larva feeds. The Super- 
intendent told me that these plants came from Madagascar, 
and there is no doubt the insect was brought with them. 
It was not captured by Captain Tulloch up to the year 
1902, though he was constantly in the gardens for two or 
three years. It is now quite common, but seldom wanders 
far from the food plant. The males are by no means so 
numerous as the females. It is quite one of the most 
confidential butterflies I know, I have frequently boxed 
them off the food plant. It is of enormously wide dis- 
tribution, being recorded from Sierra Leone to Delagoa 
Bay and Madagascar, and now still further east to Bourbon 
and Mauritius. The transformations do not appear to 
have been recorded. 
The egg is laid in bright sunshine during the hottest hours of 
the day ; it is of the usual echinoid shape, pale whitish green, and 
usually laid on its edge at the base of a flower on a spike of Coleus. 
The full-fed larva is shaped like a wood-louse, length 12 mm., pale 
pinkish-green with pink dorsal line and deeper pink spiracular 
line ; between the two are two diagonal pink lines, the upper and 
shorter passing from before backwards and downwards, the other 
backwards and upwards. Body covered sparingly with short whitish 
hairs bending forwards. Head very small and black. 
Pupa same colour as the larva but paler, covered with minute 
scattered hairs; dorsal and spiracular lines light reddish-brown, 
a row of minute dots, the posterior the larger, between the two. 
A conspicuous black mark of irregular shape on either side of dorsal 
line at the base of the wing covers. 
The larva usually feeds on the flowers, and is admirably 
protected when resting on the similarly coloured stem of 
the food plant. It usually pupates head downwards on 
the stem of the Coleus, but sometimes on the upperside 
and centre of the leaf. I have frequently seen ants 
crawling over the larva, but they appeared to pay no 
particular attention to it. Flies I-XII. 
Bourson. Not hitherto recorded, though I found it 
quite common in the Museum Gardens fluttering’ about 
the food plants, which were I believe brought from 
