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though it frequents Lantana. It has a pretty, sailing flight but when disturbed flies very swiftly. 
Some forms of $ might be mistaken on the wing for Euplasa amymone> and others for 
Papilio clytia , form panope. The $ is a splendid insect in certain lights; at other times the 
brilliant blue surrounding the white patches appears black. 
The foodplant of the larvae is a little low-growing, inconspicuous plant spreading over the 
ground and scarcely rising more than four or five inches. The plant seems very common on 
waste ground and gardens which have lain fallow for a season—places which are trodden over every 
day by men and buffaloes, played on by dogs and children and scratched over by fowls, pigs and 
people raking together a few straws for firing or fodder. Many of the eggs, larvae and pupae must 
thus be destroyed. 
H . bolina is one of the very few butterflies in New Zealand. 
Fig. 6, PI. V is from a $ taken in June ; the males vary greatly in size at all times of the 
year. Fig. 7, is a ? of May; Fig. 8. a $ of June ; Fig. 9, a $ of August ; Fig. 10. a $ of April ; 
Fig. 11 a $ of September. These varieties are found independently of the time of year. 
Egg, globular and smooth, but multi-angled axially, the angles whitish, the general colour 
greenish. Laid in batches of two or three or more close together on the underside of leaves of 
the foodplant, Alternanthera sessilis , Br., Nat. Ord. Amarantaceoe , a plant with rather succulent 
stems, common in all tropical regions. 
Larva, just hatched yellowish-brown, with a few long dark hairs on the back; head black. 
Whilst young they are partly gregarious. Fullgrown, black; three lateral rows each side of dark 
yellow spines with dark brown spinelets up the stems ; one central dorsal row which extends only 
from the fifth to the penultimate segment inclusive. A row of very small double spines each side 
just above the legs, also yellow. All spines on the second seg. are very small. Head shiny dark 
yellow, slightly hairy or bristly, with a black spot each side of the face. Two rather long and 
stout black spines on the head, spined laterally up the stems. Legs, prolegs, posterior claspers and 
patch above anus dark yellow. Underside black. After the last moult the larva usually shows an 
interrupted lateral band of light colour just below the spiracles, which are black, and the spines 
become darker yellow or brownish. 
Pupa, sub-angular, with three rows of sharply-pointed processes on the back of the 
abdomen, the central row small, with a pair of rather larger processes outside the outer rows each 
side, near the wing-cases. Head bluntly cleft. General colour nearly black, patched and variegated 
with ochreous and whitish. Attached by the tip of the abdomen without any band. It much 
resembles Precis pupae, but is more angular about the head, and the processes are larger and 
sharper. 
The larva will be subsequently figured in black-and-white. 
