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1. Ypthima huebneri, Kirby. PL XII, Fig. 1. 



T. huhneri, Kirby, Syn, Cat. Dinru. Lep., p, 95, no. 18 (1871) ; idem, id., Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay., p. 57, no. 4, pi. vii, fig. 5, $ (1882) ; Y. huebneri, Marshall and de 

 Niceville, Butt, of India, vol. i, p. 226, no. 217, pi. xvii, fig. 65, S (1883) ; Y. philo- 

 mela, Hxibner {nee Linnaeus), Zutr. Ex. Schmett., figs. 83, 84 (1818) ; id., Hewitson, 

 Tx'ans, Ent. Soc. Lond., third series, vol. ii, p. 284, no. 4 (1865) ; Y. howra, Moore, 

 Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 17 (1884). 



Ou September 5th, 1885, Captain 0. A. R. Sage* of the 18th Bengal 

 Infantry sent me in a tin box with a gauze cover seven live females 

 which had that day been caught. At the hour I received them (5-30 p. m.) 

 they had laid over 70 eggs of a beautiful light green colour on the 

 gauze cover, and two on the side of the box. On Sept. 9th, larvae 

 commenced to emerge, and I placed the gauze on which the eggs were 

 laid amongst some grass growing in a pot, covering the whole with 

 a large wooden box with glass sides. The larvae rapidly fed up, and 

 turned to pupas, the imagines emerging between October 19th and 25th, 

 as true Y. huebneri like their mothers. The pupaa were sometimes 

 green, sometimes brown. 



On my return on November 8th from my annual autumn holiday in 

 the Sikkim hills, Captain Sage gave me six about half-grown larvae 

 which he had hatched on October the 20th from eggs laid by Y. htiebneri 

 on the 15th. Being few in number these larv^ were fed up by me in 

 a stoppered glass jar, fresh grass being supplied about every other day. 

 The first of them changed to a pupa ou November 20th, and the imago 

 emerged on December 7th ; on November 22nd, another larva changed to 

 a pupa, the imago emerging December 9th ; on November 25th, two 

 more larvae changed to pupae, the imagines emerging Dec. 12th ; on 

 December 3rd, another larva changed to a pupa, the imago emerging 

 December 19th ; on December 12fch, the last larva changed to a pupa, the 

 imago emerging on January 1st. All the pupae were green, and all 

 the imagines were true Y. howra. The colour of the pupa does not, I 

 believe, affect the imago in the least ; it is purely protective, the green 

 ones in nature being probably attached to the green blades of grass, 

 while the brown ones occur on the dark-coloured stems near the roots. 

 The larva when full grown is about an inch or a little less in length, 

 entirely green, the head round, body of nearly equal thickness through- 

 out, slightly increasing in size to the tifth segment, thence gradu- 



* I am much indebted to this gentleman, who was at that time living on the 

 outskirts of Calcutta (Alipur), for live specimens of the different butterflies with 

 which I have experimented. He also bred the same four species from different batches 

 of eggs, several of them more than once, and always arrived at the same results aa I 

 did, as 1 can testify from having perused his notes and inspected his specimens. 

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