1895.] L. de Niceville & Dr. L. Martin— 'Butterflies of Sumatra. 499 
546. *Terias eumide, Felder. 
Grose Smith. Originally described from Celebes. Wallace gives 
North Celebes and the Sula Islands as its habitat, with a “ var.” from 
Batchian. We have seen nothing like it from Sumatra. 
547. *Terias latilimbata, Butler. 
T. latilimbata, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvii, p. 221, 
pi. v, fig. 5 (1886). 
Both sexes originally described from Sumatra. 
548. *Terias bidens, Butler. 
T. bidens, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvii, p. 222, 
pi. v, fig. 7, female (1886). 
Originally described from Sumatra from a female. 
549. # Terias semifusca, Butler. 
T. semifusca, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvii, p. 222 
pi. v, fig. 8, female (1886). 
Originally described from Sumatra from a female. We are unable 
to recognise any of these species of Mr. Butler’s. 
All Terias are weak on the wing, fly slowly, and never leave the 
ground for a high flight. They are all, with the exception of T. harina , 
Horsfield, found in open places, in gardens, on roads, and near houses, 
the males frequently assembling in large numbers on wet spots on 
roads and by the sides of rivers and streams. T. hecabe , Linnaeus, 
sometimes appears in swarms, and its larva may then prove very des¬ 
tructive to Cassia plantations. Cassia florida, Linnaeus, is its favourite 
food-plant, on which the eggs are sometimes deposited singly as are the 
eggs of the Catopsilias , but sometimes on a single leaf a large number 
are placed in a rhomboid shape. In the latter case the green pilose 
larva with a yellowish-white lateral streak and a black head (all the 
larvae of Catopsilias have a head concolorous with the body) live in 
societies, and the pupa are also suspended sociably, a fact not previously 
we believe observed in Lepidoptera. If the pupa hang from leaves 
they are green, if near the flowers of the Cassia they are yellow, and if 
the caterpillars leave the food-plant and pupate on certain high 
Graminese they are blackish-brown like the seed of the grass. As the 
pupae'are arranged at regular distances apart, the deception is a 
very good one and must greatly protect them, as men, animals and 
birds at a superficial glance would take these pupae to be only withered 
flowers of the Cassia or ripe seeds of the grass. After six days in the 
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