1902.] L. de Niceville — Butterflies of Hovghong in Southern China. 5 



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 Cryptolepisj 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, lb, larva ; Ic, 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 Asclepiadede, Hongkong" 

 specimens of B. sita agree absolutely with Indian ones. 



9. EuPL(EA (Crastia) godartii, Lucas. 



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

 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 Banainse of 

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

 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 Strehlus and 

 Ficus of the JJrticaceae. 



10. Euplcea (Crastia) kinbergi, Wallengren. 



Euploea kinbergi^ Wallengren, Wien, Ent. Monatsb., vol. iv, p. 35, n. 8 (1860) j 

 Kongl. Svensk. Fregatten 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. Ixx, pt. 2, pp. 20, 22 (1901), Euploea (Crastia) 

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



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



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

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

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

 (nee) Felder, 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 Strophanthus divergens, Grab. — natural order 

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

 order Apocynacese, or on Ficus ^ natural order TJrticaceie, 



