TABUCUS. 419 



Hob. Northern and Western Africa ; Arabia ; Persia ; 

 Baluchistan ; N.W. Himalayas ; the Punjab ; Western, Central 

 and Southern India; Ceylon ; Assam; LTpper Burma. 



Larva. "Just half an inch in length when full grown, much 

 flattened, the head pale ochreous and completely hidden under the 

 second segment which is somewhat wide, the third and fourth 

 segments progressively a little wider, whence the body gradually 

 tapers to the last segment which is about as wide as the second. 

 Colour pale green, the whole upper surface covered with a 

 shagreening of small white tubercules which under a magnifying- 

 glass give it a frosted appearance ; along the lateral edge of the 

 body and round the anal segment there are numerous somewhat 

 long whitish hairs. Prom the third to the anal segment there is 

 a somewhat broad (slightly decreasing in width posteriorly) 

 yellowish-green dorsal stripe, which bears a red stripe in its middle, 

 decreasingly on the first four segments on which it appears ; in 

 some specimens the dorsal stripe is marked with reddish on both 

 sides, which colour is very conspicuous on the twelfth and 

 thirteenth segments. There is also a subdorsal series of small 

 spots from the third to the eleventh segments inclusive which are 

 quite inconspicuous in some specimens. The extensile organs on 

 the twelfth segment are small. The constrictions between the 

 segments slight and inconspicuous .... In India it eats the 

 young leaves and flower-buds of Zizyplms yujuba. Dr. A. Forel of 

 Geneva identifies the ants which attend these larvae as Camponotus 

 rubripes, Drury (sylvaticus, Pabr. subspecies compressus, Pabr.)and 

 Phidole latinoda, Eoger." (de Niceville.} 



Pupa. " Of the usual Lycsenid shape ; head, thorax and wing- 

 cases green speckled thickly with black, abdomen green. There 

 is an indistinct blackish line extending down the whole length of 

 the body, with a double subdorsal series of indistinct black specks; 

 the head is rounded, the thorax slightly humped ; the pupa 

 throughout quite smooth." (de Niceville.) 



Tarucus nara, Kollar, insufficiently described from damaged speci- 

 mens, T. callinara and T. extricatus, Butler, cannot, in my opinion, 

 be separated from some of the many varieties of the typical form. 

 T. t7ieojp7irastus, var. callinara has the markings on the underside 

 large, many of the spots coalescent, as has also var. extricatus, the 

 markings on the underside of the wings of which are in addition 

 often rusty-red. In this var. extricatus resembles var. alteratus, 

 Moore, the most distinct of all the varieties described. These 

 variations however, mainly in colour, are in my opinion climatic or 

 local, and I believe could all be bred under suitable conditions from 

 any typical pair of T. tlieoplirastus. 



763. Tarucus venosus, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1882, p. 245, pi. 12, figs. 6, 6 a, 

 rf; Doherty, J. A. S. B. 1886, p. 132 ; de N. Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, 

 p. 193, pi. 27, fig. 189 rf . 



cJ 5 . Very closely resembles T. theophrastus, from which it 

 may be distinguished as follows : <$ . Upperside : ground-colour 



