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LTC^NIDJ^. 



Larva. "The colour of the head dingy green, with a few dark brown markings; of the body, 

 opaijue apple-green, the warts being white and the bristles sienna-brown ; in some specimens 

 the green is interrupted by three stripes of a delicate purplish pink, one of them medio-dorsal, 

 the others marginal." 



The foregoing description of the larva is that given by Newman in his ' British 

 Butterflies,' and is quoted by Dr. Lang (/. c). A more extended life-history 

 of the species will be found in Buckler's ' Larvse of British Butterflies and 

 Moths,' i. pp. 91-94, where Rmiiex acetoceUa is mentioned as a food-plant, 

 but Dr. Lang states that the larva feeds on various species of Bumex. 



Var. chinensis, Felder. Differs from typical specimens in its larger size, much broader spots of 

 the primaries, narrower marginal band on upper surface of secondaries, and larger and more 

 distinct spots on the under surface. The type, a female, was from Shanghai. 



I met with this form in the Snowy Valley at Ningpo. The specimens are 

 much larger than any others in my collection. 



Var. timeUS, Cramer. " Male. Larger than the typical form. Upperside : fore wing very much 

 darker, the coppery colour almost entirely overlaid with blackish ; the black spots larger. 

 Otherwise as in the typical form. Female. Larger. Upper surface : fore wing with the 

 lower basal area thickly overlaid with blackish scales, having the apical and other portions 

 alone of the coppery ground-colour quite clear. Hind wing with the discal blue spots often 

 very largo and prominent. Otherwise as in the typical form." (de Niceville, I. c.) 



"N ar. stygianus, Butler. " Alale. Smoky brown ; primaries in certain lights shot with fiery copper; 

 spotted witli black as in C. timeus (eleus?, Fabr.) ; two small orange spots beyond the inter- 

 rupted black discal series : secondaries with a slender undulated deep reddish-orange band on 

 a black ground near the outer margin ; above it a series of four or five pale blue hastate 

 s])ots, and above these again beyond the end of the cell two black dots ; a black dash at the 

 end of the cell. Fringe greyish white. Body blackish. Wings below very like C. timeus, 

 but considerably paler, the submarginal black spots of primaries less distinctly white-bordered ; 

 the apex and outer margin of primaries and the ground-colour of tlio secondaries very pale 

 grey. Female. Larger tlian the male, tlic primaries witli tiie outer third of the cell and the 

 Hubapical area bright orange, the l)lack spots larger, otherwise similar : l)e]ow sliglitly 

 yellower in tint all over, so that the ground tint of the secondaries has a pale brownish rather 

 tlian greyish hue. K.vpanse, cJ 1 inch 4 lines, $ 1 inch 5 lines. 



"Candahar. Common in April and May, abundant in June." {Butler, I. c.) 



Timeus, Cramer, and sfytjiantis, IJutlcr, are both referable to the form 

 <A' ('. jMocnfi known in Europe as var. eleus, Fabricius. 



In his remarks on this species in Japan, Fryer [l. c.) states that it " varies 

 greatly in si/c and (coloration according to the time of year that it emerges 

 ill the ]icrfect state ; early spring forms arc small and brightly coloured, often 



