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LYCJ^NIDtE. 



bciug placed in each inler-aeural space. Fringes black. Antennae black, ringed with 

 •white." {Lang, I. c.) 



Larva. " Green, darker on Ihe back ; two rows of long yellow spots on the back, and a row on each 

 side above the legs ; six long oblique j-ellow stripes on each side." (Stainton, from Duponcliel.) 



"Feeds on the leaves of Prumis sjnnosa, on the twigs of which the eggs are laid in the summer 

 and remain all the winter, the larva appearing in May. 



Pupa. " Obese, blunt-headed, and hump-backed ; it has a medio-dorsal series of five rather con- 

 spicuous warts or tubercles." (Ncwinan, from Hiihner.) 



The larva and pupa of this species are figured in Buckler's ' Larvje of British 

 Butterflies,' pi. xii. figs. 5-5 c. 



There Avas a female example from Yesso in Fryer's collection. This speci- 

 men is much suflfused Avith pale fulvous on the upper surface, and is figured 

 in his ' Rhop. Nihonica.' 



Fixsen records one female specimen from Corea, and comparing it with 

 European examples says that it has a sharper design ; the submarginal row 

 of spots on primaries is more distinct and bordered internally Avith Avhite ; 

 the series of black spots Avliich bounds the broader reddish-brown band of 

 secondaries is also more strongly marked with white. 



Graeser (Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 72) records two female specimens from 

 Pokrofka. Staudinger states that Dorries bred this insect in the Sutschan 

 district, and Elwes (Froc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 88G) says that T. pruni 

 occurs at Vladivostock, and on the lower Ussuri. 



Tliecla prunoides. 



Thcclu ])runotdes, Staudinger, Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 129, pi. vi. figs. I a, b (1887) ; 

 Fixsen, torn. cit. p. 278. 



" Nearest allied to T. prmii, but smaller (25 to 27 millim.), the similar-coloured dark upper surface 

 does not exhibit, in any of tlie five specimens before me, any trace of yellow-brown spots, 

 which arc always more or less conspicuous a( the anal angle of i^runi. Tlie male does not 

 exhibit the sexual patch beyond the cell, which is present in T. pruni; but thero appears to 

 bo in the male of prunoides a similar lighter spot at the lower end of the discoidal coll, but 

 this may be owing to abrasion of the scales. The tails of Ihe hind wing are longer than in 

 pruni. On the yellowish-grey underside of the fore wing only one row of white spots is 

 present; there arc no black outer spots as in prntti. The underside of the hind wing is very 

 similar to pruni, but tlie black spots before the outer margin are much less distinct, smaller, 

 and not so sharply bordered with white internally ; there is only one black spot on the outer 

 margin above the tail, and not several as in p;-M;u. The head and body are not materially 

 different in the two species." {Staudinger, I. c.) 



Fixson records a male and female taken at Fung-tung, Coroa, in June ; he 

 statcH tliat in the; female specimen there are two light brown patches on the 



