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The larva of Parantica has two pairs only of fleshy filaments. The 

 larva has never been discovered, but that of the allied species, P. aglea, 

 Cramer, has been recorded to feed on plants of the natural order Asclepia- 

 dese, such as Cryptolepis, Calotropis, Tylophora, in South India and 

 Ceylon. 



8. Danais (Caduga) sita, Kollar. 



Danais sita, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 5, p. 424, n. 1, pi. vi, figs. 1, 2, 

 male (1844) ; Danais (Caduga) sita Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc, vol. xi, p. 213, n. 6, pi. U, figs, la, 16, larva ; lc, Id, pupa (1897) ; Danais 

 {Caduga) tytia, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 444, n. 2. 



The larva of Caduga has two pairs only of fleshy filaments, and 

 feeds in India on Marsdenia, natural order Asclepiadese. Hongkong 

 specimens of D. sita agree absolutely with Indian ones. 



9. Euplcea (Crastia) godartii, Lucas. 



Euplcea godartii, Lucas, Rev. et Mag. Zool., second series, vol. v, p. 319 (1853) ; 

 Euplcea (Crastia) godarti (sic), Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 447, 

 n. 10. 



The larva of Crastia has four pairs of fleshy filaments. Major 

 (now Colonel) C. H. E. Adamson, c.i.e., in " Notes on the Danainse of 

 Burmah," p. 12 (1889), records that he has "bred E. godartii from 

 caterpillars found feeding on orange trees," Citrus sp., natural order 

 Butacese. More probable plants would, I think, be species of Holarrhena, 

 Nerium and Ichnocarpus of the natural order Apocynacese, or Streblus and 

 Ficus of the Urticacese. 



10. Euplcea (Crastia) kinbergi, Wallengren. 



Euplcea kinbergi, Wallengren, Wien, Ent. Monatsb., vol. iv, p. 35, n. 8 (1860) ; 

 Kongl. Svensk. Pregatten Eugenies Resa, Zoologi, pt. v, p. 352, n. 4 (1861); Tronga 

 kinbergi, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883. p. 269, n. 12 ; Crastia kinbergi, 

 de. Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lxx, pt. 2, pp. 20, 22 (1901), Euplcea (Crastia) 

 kinbergi, de Niceville, Jonrn. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. xiii, p. , n. , 



pi. , fig. , female ; Euplcea lorquinii, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 



340, n. 472 (1865) ; Crastia lorquini (sic), Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. i, page 91 (1890) ; 

 Euplcea felderi, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 275, n. 20; Crastia felderi, 

 Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 91 (1890) ; Euplcea (Crastia) frauenfeldi (sic), Walker 

 (nee) Pelder, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 447, n. 11 ; Crastia frauenfeldii, 

 Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 87, pi. xxviii, figs. 1, la, male (1890). 



This very variable and common butterfly is restricted to Southern 

 China, and has been bred on Strophantus divergens, Grab. — natural order 

 Apocynacese. The larva will probably be found to feed on Nerium, natural 

 order Apocynacese, or on Ficus, natural order Urticaceie. 



