362 LYC^NID^. 
being placed in each iiiler-neural space. Fringes black. Antennas black, ringed with 
white." {LaiHj, I. c.) 
Larva. " Green, darker on the back ; two rows of long yellow spots on the back, and a row on each 
side above the legs ; six long oblique yellow stripes on each side." (Stainton, from Dupoachel.) 
" Feeds on the leaves of Primus spinosa, 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." (Newman, from Huhner.) 
The larva and pupa of this species are figured in Buckler's 'Larvte of British 
Butterflies,' pi. xii. figs. 5-5 c. 
There was a female example from Yesso in Fryer's collection. This speci- 
men is much suffused with 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 with white ; 
the series of black spots which 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 (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 886) says that T. pruni 
occurs at Vladivostock, and ou the lower Ussuri. 
Thecla prunoides. 
Thecla pninoidcs, Staudinger, Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 129, pi. vi. figs. 1 a, b (1887) ; 
Fixsen, torn. eit. p. 278. 
" Nearest allied to T. iiruni,'bui smaller (25 to 27 millim.), the similar-coloured dark upper surface 
does not exhibit, in any of the five specimens before me, any trace of yellow-brown spots, 
which are always more or less conspicuous at the anal angle of pnnii. The male does not 
exhibit the sexual patch beyond the cell, which is present in T. pruni ; but there appears to 
be in the male of prunoides a similar lighter spot at the lower end of the discoidal coU, but 
this may be owing to abrasion of the scales. The tails of the 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 are no black outer spots as m pruni. The underside of the hind wing is very 
similar to pruni, but the 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 pruni. The head and body are not materially 
different in the two species." (Staudinger, I. c.) 
Fixsen records a male and female taken at Pung-tung, Corea, in June ; he 
states that in the female specimen there are two light brown patches on the 
