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withered portions of which are ferruginous; while the con- 

 spicuous white spots most completely resemble the drops of 

 milk-like sap that exude from the stems and leaves on the 

 slightest wound. Moreover, both the larva (when in a slightly 

 contracted position) and the pupa bear a very strong resem- 

 blance to the small, rough, ashy-varied fruits of their food- 

 plant. I found that those pupae which were disclosed at large 

 on the plants were much greener and more like the little figs 

 than those which resulted from larvae kept captive in a dimly- 

 lighted breeding-cage." 



GENUS LOXURA. 



Loxura, Horsfield, Cat. Lepid. E. I. C. p. 119 (1829); 

 Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 474 (1852); Distant, 

 Rhopalocera Malayana, p. 280 (1885); Schatz & Rober, 

 Exot. Schmelt. ii. p. 270 (1888). 



The species of this genus were formerly placed with those of 

 Myrina^ which they resemble in general appearance ; but they 

 are more slender Butte: flies, with much longer and slenderer 

 palpi, and the long tail is pointed and not spatulate at the ex- 

 tremity. They, moreover, inhabit India and the adjacent 

 islands, not Africa. The wings are fulvous, or ochraceous, 

 with brown or black borders, and the type is Loxura atynmus 

 (Cramer), which is found almost throughout the southern part 

 of the Indo-Malayan region, except, perhaps, in Sumatra. 



GENUS PHASIS. 

 Phasis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 73 (1816). 



) Hiibner, /. c. p. 73 (1816). 



iS) Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. pi. 22, fig. 6 (1836) ; 

 Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 500(1852); Trimen, 

 S. African Butterflies, ii. p. 167 (1887). 



Cigarftis, Donzel, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (2) v. p. 528 (1847); 

 Lucas, Expl. AlgeV. Zool. Hi. p. 362 (1849). 



