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days afterwards both turned into very extraordinary-looking pupa?, 

 and the perfect insects emerged, one on the fifth, the other on the 

 seventh day after pupating. At the time I took them for males 

 of Curetis bulls, Doubleday & Hewitson ; but subsequently, when 

 I showed them to Mr. de Niceville, he said they were closer to 

 Curetis malayica, Felder. The following description, taken from 

 the living larva and pupa, was drawn up by me at the time : 



Larva. About 16 rum. long. Colour velvety green ; head 

 dark brown ; 3rd and 4th segments with narrow, obliquely- placed 

 lateral stripes of crimson, edged posteriorly with yellow; 6th to 

 llth segments with a slender longitudinal dorsal stripe of the 

 same colour ; the spiracles on each side surmounted by a slender, 

 lunulated, pale yellow line ; on the 9th segment a conspicuous 

 quadrate patch of white between the spiracular yellow lunule and 

 the crimson dorsal line ; 12th and remaining segments dark green ; 

 on the 12th two greenish-yellow, erect, rigid processes slightly 

 divergent at their apices ; the tentacles protruded from their pro- 

 cesses seem to be pinkish brown in colour, with a tuft of black and 

 white hairs at their apices ; but it is not easy to note the colour 

 of the hairs, as they are protruded, whirled round and withdrawn 

 with great rapidity. There is no opening or honey-gland on the 

 llth or other segment, as in many Lycaonid larvae. In shape also 

 these do not resemble the larvae of the Lyccenidce, which as a rule, 

 are onisciform. In these the head is small and almost always 

 completely hidden under the 2nd segment ; the 3rd, 4th, and 5th 

 segments sloped upwards posteriorly, form each a well-marked 

 transverse ridge. 



Pupa. A rounded slightly convex disc with a protrusion 

 posteriorly ; colour translucent dark green. Seen under a magni- 

 t'ying-glass they seem to be studded with tiny pits, except on the 

 lateral areas ; on the anterior portion there is an oval yellowish- 

 white mark. 



Var. stigmata, Moore. <5 . Upperside : very like that of 

 typical C. bulis, but the ground-colour a shade darker. Comparing 

 the specimens that answer to Mr. Moore's very short description 

 with the type of bulis in the collection of the British Museum, 

 I find that the red medial areas on the wings, especially that on 

 the hind wing, are not quite so broad. As in the typical form, 

 the discocellulars on the upperside of the fore wing are covered 

 by the very broad black edging to the costal margin. Underside : 

 indistinguishable from the underside of the typical form. 

 $ . Unknown, but probably very similar to the $ of the typical 

 form. 



Exp. J as in bulis. 



Hub. Originally described from Tenasserim. 



Var. discalis, Moore. " Male distinguished on the upperside 

 by the bright red of the fore wing being confined to a narrow- 

 elongated patch and that on the hind wing also confined to a 



