6o 
ERYCINIDAL 
Fig. 7, PI. VII is from a $ taken in February, Fig. 8 from a $ taken in May, but there is 
a good deal of variation in this butterfly. The females are generally lighter altogether in colour 
than the males, and have the light-coloured bands broad and distinct in the forewings. There is a 
marked seasonal variation, the rather large black sub-marginal spots of the hindwings becoming very 
faint or quite obsolete on both upper- and underside; the light-coloured transverse bands on both 
wings of the w.s.f. also disappearing. The butterfly also varies much in size. 
Egg, globular, smooth, greenish; laid on the underside of leaves of the foodplant 
of the larva, Embelia obovata , Hemsl., a small straggling shrub known only from China, Nat. 
Ord. Myrsinacece , the genus being limited to tropical Asia and eastern Africa. 
Larva, figured on PI. 3a, Fig. g, pupa Fig. 10. The pupa is attached to the underside 
of a leaf of the foodplant by the tip of the abdomen, with a band round the middle, very little or 
no “ play ” being allowed, the underside of the abdomen and head almost touching the leaf, the 
dorsal surface facing outwards. 
The young larvae eat away the under surface of the leaves in patches, not touching the 
thin upper skin. 
