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NYMPH ALIN.®. 
Fig. 6, PI. Ill is from a $ taken in January. 
Egg, whitish, globular, dented in axial lines, laid singly on the underside of leaves of the 
foodplant of the larva, Scolopia chinensis , Clos., Nat. Ord. Bixacece, a shrub or small tree common 
to S.E. Asia and the Philippines. 
The larva, which will be figured later in black-and-white, is of a general shiny dark 
yellow-brown, with two rows of dorsal spines and two lateral rows each side, long, slender and finely 
spined laterally up the stems. A whitish lateral line just above the legs divides the upper and 
under surfaces. Head shiny dark yellow, with a black marking each side of the face. After the last 
moult the larva is of a shining emerald green, the spines very pale blue, marked with black where 
the lateral spinelets spring, black at the base and ringed with pale blue on the body. The larvae are 
very quick in their movements, active and restless and when young will only feed on the very tender 
fresh leaves and shoots of their foodplant, which are always infested with ants and other creatures, 
attracted by the moisturd or sap of the new leaves, but also on the lookout for eggs and very young 
larvas. In some stages the larva of Cupha is hardly distinguishable from that of Atella phalantha. 
The pupa is almost exactly like that of the above-mentioned butterfly, and is attached by 
the tip of the abdomen only. 
Cirrochroa satellita, Butler. 
Commander Walker says in his List that one specimen of this butterfly, from Honkong, 
Is in the collection of Messrs. Godman and Salvin. 
Cirrochroa mithila, Moore. 
Scarce, but an insect which seems to occur sporadically, generally in May and June, when 
I have sometimes taken a dozen within a few days; some years it does not seem to put in an 
appearance at all. Its flight rather resembles that of Cupha but is stronger, and it seems to be 
rather a wandering butterfly. It likes the vegetation under large trees and the fringe of woods, 
being very fond of settling on the underside of a leaf with closed wings, sometimes on the upperside 
with fully expanded wings. This butterfly seems to like Lantana flowers, but chiefly frequents 
foliage. It is an insect which gets into a very worn and ragged condition, the greater part of those 
seen here being in that state. The $ in a fresh condition is almost as bright an insect as Atella> 
but the wavy marginal markings on the upperside vary in distinctness in both sexes, some specimens 
having them very black and continuous, others faint and broken. 
Fig. 12, PI. Ill is from a $ taken in June, Fig. io, PI. VII from a $ taken in May. 
Cyrestis thyodamas, Boisduval. 
This insect I have only recently taken, and was obliged to figure separately; the drawing 
is interesting as a specimen of Japanese colour-printing in this class of work, and I venture to think 
rivals the best European examples. Cyrestis is a genus common to the three Eastern tropical 
