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PROF. E. B. POUITON ON BREEDING 



to ensure that the Jarvse of each company should be kept separate. The eggs 

 themselves formed in each case a clump no larger than a threepenny-bit, and 

 it may be assumed that each was laid by a single female. The dates at which 

 some of the batches of ova were found were not preserved, but all of them 

 fell into Dec. 1910 or Jan. 1911, and therefore well within the dry season, 

 which extended from about mid-Nov. 1910 to mid-March 1911. 



Company 1. 



The eggs hatched Dec. 24, 1910. The 2 imagines which emerged on 

 Jan. 21 pupated on Jan. 16. The other dates of pupation were not preserved. 



The eggs produced both males and females, all of the form Z2/cia,"which 

 emerged on the following dates : — 



Dates of 



Emergence. 



1911. 



lycia. 



Male. 



Female. 



Jan. 21 



2 







„ 22 



3 







„ 23 



17 



2 





„ 24 



1 







„ 25 



18 



8 





„ 26 



5 



18 





„ 28 





3 





„ 29 





1 





Totals 



46 



32 



The individuals of this company are unusually dark, and in many speci- 

 mens, principall}" males, the basal half of the fore wing is suffused with a 

 faint fulvous tint varying in depth of shade. In the most extreme of these 

 the fore wing may be called intermediate between infuscata and lycia. 

 The two varieties in which the suffusion is most pronounced are males, 

 emerging respectively on Jan. 23 and 25. In both of these the subapical 

 bar of the fore wing is of a deeper shade than usual, so that these specimens 

 approach the form commixta. 



