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Lampidt* Bvtica, Walk, Ent vol. p% 52, n.*42 (1870); Newm. Brit. Butt. p. 117, & 89 (1814). 



C'uptio fotfcus, Auriv. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Ftirh. 1870* no. 7, p. 44 ; SaeU. Tijd. Eut. xx, p. 2 (1877) j ibid, xxi, 



p. 23, n. 90 (1B7BK 

 /Vi/io CttliUea, Fuossly, Sehweiz. Ins. p. 81, n. 594, f. 2, 2 |1775f. 

 f'apilio Pharum, Fourer, Ent. Paxuj. ii. p. 242, n. 25 (1785). 



Male* Wings above pule violaceous ; anterior wings with fcuc costal margin narrowly and the outer 

 margin more broadly pale Juscoub ; posterior wings with the costal and posterior margins pale fuscous, 

 a large black marginal spot between second and third median uervuies p and two contiguous sin niter black 

 spots at anal angle- Wings beneath pale brownish -ockraceous p with the following linear brownish fascia 

 margined with greyish ; — anterior wings with two crossing centre and two near end of cell, two (considerably 

 fractured), crossing wing between end of cell and outer margin , commencing near the fourth subcostal 

 nervule and terminating at submedian nervtire, two submarginal {the innermost broadest) , and the outer 

 margin narrowly pale fuscous ; posterior wings crossed from base to beyond middle with about eight linear 

 fasciae as on anterior wings (more or less fused and broken), followed by a distinct and somewhat broad 

 greyish fascia, and with two submarginal linear brownish fasciae ; two large marginal spots containing 

 a few scattered greenish scales and inwardly margined with pale reddish ocbraceous, separated by the 

 lower median nervule ; outer margin narrowly fuscous; friii^u of both wings pale brownish, the tips 

 greyish -white, Body above more or less coneolorous with wings, beneath with legs greyish- white ; legs 

 more or less streaked with brownish. 



Female. Wings above pale brownish ; anterior wings with a discal bluish patch ; posterior wings 

 with two outer greyish submarginal fasciae, the innermost broadest; black anal angular spots as in male, 

 distinctly margined with greyish ; wings beneath as in male* 



Exp. wings, $ and ? t 80 to 38 millim. 



Hab.— Europe, generally south of the Alps.* — Madeira (Brit. Mub.). — Teneriffe (Brit. Mus.). — 

 St. Helena (Trim en) .—Egypt (Lord— Walk,).— Congo (Mabille) — Southern Africa tTrimen) — Damara Land 

 (Auri villi us). — Delagoa Bay (Monteiro — coll, Dist.), — Madagascar (Trinien).— Mauritius (Trim en). — Arabia 

 (Lord— Walk.), — Candahar (Roberts — Brit. Mus.). — Continental India ; Kurrachee (Swinhoe — Brit. Mus.) ; 

 Pulni (Robinson— col L Dist.); Sikkim (de Nicuville).— Ceylon (Thwaites — colL Dist.). — Malay Peninsula; 

 Peiiaiig il'iuwill — Brit. Mb*,) ; Sim^ci l-jonj; iBi^s -uoil. 1'ist.j : M:i.l;u-ca iliiggs — i-oll. JJist. J. ■ — Sumatra 

 (Snellen), — Java (coll. Horsf.); Batavia (Snellen); Bantam (coll. Dist.). — Celebes (Snellen).— Ceram (Brit, 

 Mus.).— Aru (Brit Mus.).— Duke York Island (Brown— coll. Godm. & Salv.)— Australia ; Melbourne 

 (Butler).— Shanghai (Elwes); Hong Kong (Brit. Mus.).— Japan (ElwesS 



In Europe the food-plant of tlie larva of this widely distributed species is the " bladder 

 senna" (ColuUa arborescens), a hardy plant reported to even grow on the ascent to the crater of 

 Vesuvius, lu Mauritius Mr, Trhnen found the butterfly " almost cod fined to gardens, where 

 it kept about the cultivated pea.*' f 



According to Mr, Elwes this insect, although found in Japan and at Shanghai, is not 

 knowu in Amurknd, J and it seems little affected by local conditions as modifying agencies in 

 colour markings, though M. Mabille writes of the species as found in the Congo district of West 

 Africa : — " H est tin peu plus sombre que les individus d 'Europe, en monie temps plus bleu, 

 at ses aiies sont bien plus minces." § 



i This speciee baa occasionally been captured in England, and is not altogether confined tt> Southern Europe. 



t Trim*. Ent. Hoc. «er. u, vol. v. p. 8fl7 <18(;Uj. TUi* butterfly kccius to follow the introduction of agriculture. Dr. Horn- 

 field states that his Javanese specimens were "collected chieHy in the cultivated districts. 1 ' It is also dependent ou the 

 seasonal method of cultivation, foruB Mr. Newman observed in Eii^huul, H it only occurs in our pea-fields now and then, but 

 its existence must be very precarious, because the < would, in all probability,' perish with the peadiaulin* which is rarely 

 kepi through the spring and summer " (Brit. Butt. p. 11B). 



I I'roc. Zool. i>oc. 1881, p. 887. § Bulh Soc, Zooi. Fr. 1677, p. 21fi. 



