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their middle, others neglecting this precaution, though all had the threads (apparently not connected 
to the pupae) at head and tail. The abdomen-tip of the pupa ends abruptly, forming a large disc, 
thus securing a good hold, probably sufficient without any girdle, as is the case with some other 
Lycsenid pupse. They seem to be affixed with a secretion, but not in the form of actual threads. 
There is a small process each side of the seventh abdominal segment. The pupal stage in the wet 
season lasts about ten days. The larvae appear to feed only on two species of aphis; one slate- 
coloured with white efflorescence; the other greenish with four dark-green patches, some of them 
being fringed with white, probably moulted skin. The larval stage in the wet season lasts some 
fifteen days. This butterfly probably has a brood almost every month, except perhaps January and 
February. 
Gerydus chinensis has so far only been recorded from this part of Kwangtung.* 
Fig. 19, PI. VIII is from a t taken in October; Fig. 24 of the same plate is the upperside 
of a ? taken in November. The t is usually larger than the ?, and the latter has the border of the 
hindwings slightly angulated. 
The larva is figured on PL 4a, Fig. 15, pupa Fig. 16. The egg is figured on the 
collotype plate. 
Neopithecops zalmora, Butler 
Like the foregoing butterfly, common but local, frequenting woods and shady nooks, 
where it flits erratically, much like Gerydus , but with a feeble flight not far from the ground, or 
just over the undergrowth: distinct or hazy to the eye of the observer according as its white under¬ 
side or dark brown upper surface is in view. It has a trick, like many other Lycaenids, of rubbing 
its hindwings together when settled with wings closed. It is on the wing throughout the year. 
The sexes are nearly alike, but both vary in the amount of white patch on the upperside of the 
forewing, though the % usually has more white than the the latter having sometimes merely a few 
white scales. 
This insect occurs commonly in most of the patches of wood round the villages on the 
West River, at least as far as Kwei-hsien in Kwangsi, on the Nanning branch of the river. 
Fig. 5, PI. IX is from a ? taken in November ; Fig 7 of the same plate is the upperside 
of a curious variety taken in January, with a large patch of white on both wings, the rest being ot 
a much lighter brown than usual. This form only seems to occur in the dry season, and is 
uncommon. 
Egg, hemispherical, granulated, greenish-white ; laid singly into the junctures of the 
twigs and branches with the stem of the foodplant of the larva, Glycostnis pentaphylla , Correa ; 
a shrub common to tropical Asia and Australia, Nat. Ord. Anrantiacece . 
» I have since taken it at How-lik, just beyond Samshui. 
