260 L. de NicSville— List of the Butterflies of the Ke Isles. [No. 2, 



29. *Junonta timorensis, Wallace. 



Ke Dulan (Butler). We have not seen this species from the Ke 

 Isles. 



30. Neptis (Rahinda) consimilts, Boisdnval. Plate I, Figs. 3, 

 young larva on food -plant ; 3a, full-grown larva. 



Not very rare on Little and Great Re, single specimens being 

 here and there met with. Mr. Kiihn has bred this butterfly. The ovum 

 is laid singly on the underside of the leaves of a papilionaceous shrub, 

 it is shaped like a raspberry, is pale yellow, and slightly hairy, and 

 furnished with, raised knobs or tubercles in seven rows, the largest row 

 having 14 tubercles. Larva dark olive-brown, shagreen ed ; head bifur- 

 cated in the dorsal line ; the second, third and fifth segments furnished 

 with a pair of processes, the pair on the third segment the longest ; 

 there is a pale dorsal line from the third to the thirteenth segment, and 

 a similar spiracular line. For protection against its enemies the larva 

 has developed the following curious habits : — It bites half through the 

 middle of one of the bipennate leaves of its food-plant, which is pro- 

 bably a species of Acacia, and also bites through entirely the small 

 leaves at the end of the stem beyond the half-bitten-through part, but 

 fixes eacli of these bitten-off leaves to the stem by a thread. The larva 

 rests on the underside at the extreme end of the stem, which has bent 

 over at a right-angle from the unbitten portion, and feeds on the faded, 

 dried-up, brown leaves, which very quickly become of the same shade of 

 colour as the larva. When touched, the larva shakes the leaves. The 

 larva is very sluggish, and moves very slowly, step by step. 



31. Neptis lactaria, Butler. 



Athyma lactaria, Bntler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist , third series, vol. xvii, 

 98, n. 1 (1866); Neptis lactaria, de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lxvi, pt. 2 y 

 p. 535, n. 2, woodcut of female (1897). 



Rare on Little and Great Ke Isles. 



