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APPENDIX. 



Notes on the habits and early stages of some Trinidad 

 Butterflies. By J, Guppy. 



Tithorea megara, Godt. ( = T, flavescens, Kirby). (PI. 

 XVIII, figs. 8— 3J.) 



Ovum. Conical, flattened at top, faintly tinted yellow with 

 numerous cell-like dejaressions, which are better defined at the 

 upper end, to about a third of the height down. 



Larva. Head shining jet black. Abdomen black and white as 

 shown in figure. Frequently the larva is almost black but rarely 

 one is lilac tinted and less opaque looking. Arising from the second 

 segment are two long soft flexible processes which, when the larva 

 is alarmed, are twitched nervously. 



Habits. The larva is day feeding and is easily noticed on its food- 

 plant {Echites sjj.), a low creeper which is very abundant and hardy. 

 The larva, which is sluggish, is to be found all the year round in 

 Tunapuna. The imago lays her eggs singly on the under-side of 

 a leaf generally about mid-day or early afternoon. 



Lycorea ceres, Cram. (PL XVIII, figs. 4, 4a.) 



0mm. Much like that of Tithorea Jlavescens only larger. It is 

 placed on the under-side of a leaf of cocoa or a plant that resembles 

 a rubber plant. The egg hatches in about five days. 



Larva. Black and white as shown in figures. Head shining black. 

 From the fourth segment to the anal segment the white hook-like 

 marks become yellow in the mature larva.* As in T. Jlavescens there 

 are two horn-like processes on the second segment. In habits the 

 larva is sluggish and feeds by day. 



Heterosais ocalea. 



Ovum. Pearly white ribbed longitudinally. Eesembles Tithorea 

 megara, but is shorter and of larger circumference. 



Laid singly on under-side of a leaf usually near a stream and 

 about two feet from the ground. Oval period five days. 



* Presumably Mr. Guppy has not given a figure of the larva in 

 its last skin, unless by •' mature " he means the final change of 

 colour undergone previous to pupation. — W. J. K. 



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