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extremity. The colour scheme was also unusual, being a 
blend of various shades! of green, brown, cream and white. 
These larvae pupated from December 12th to December 
25th. Pupae similar in shape to those of absimilis, but 
dull yellow-brown in colour and without markings. 
Butterflies emerged during 1941 as follows: — February 
4th, one female; March 28th, one male; September 2nd, 
one female ; September 30th, one female ; the fifth failed to 
emerge. This species differs from absimilis in the follow- 
ing points: In both sexes both fore and hind wings are 
squarer and less rounded; the male is a duller blue, with 
darker scales in the centre of the forewing extending out- 
wards along the veins, and there are two black dots near 
tornus of hind-wing ; in the female the blue at the base of 
the fore-wing is brighter and more conspicuous and the 
white area slightly larger, and the white area of the hind- 
wing is suffused with pale blue; underside of both sexes 
similar to absimilis. 
Candalides xanthospilos , Hubner, 1906. 
This is another species with a very variable pupal 
duration. From a batch of larvae that pupated in May, 
1941, single butterflies emerged as follows: September 9th, 
October 8th, November 15th, November 24th, November 
26th (two), January 10th, January 28th, January 29th 
and May 6th, 1942 — the last having a pupal duration of 
nearly twelve months. 
Candalides hyacinthina, Semper, 1878. 
At Burleigh the usual food-plant is the commonest and 
largest species of Cassytha , C. pubescens. The larvae are 
distinguished by the two small red-brown tubercles, one 
towards each extremity. The pupal duration varies from 
three weeks in spring to two weeks in summer and five 
weeks in May and June. 
Candalides erinus , Fabricius, 1775. 
We have found larvae only on Cassytha filiformis, a 
species plentiful near the beaches. The larvae are similar 
to those of hyacinthina in shape, but are smaller and lack 
the dorsal tubercles; colour and markings are variable, 
