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segment terminated by a sharp, light yellow projection, and the extreme edge of the abdominal 
ridge is also light yellow. An obscure triangular yellow spot each side of the ridge on the fourth 
abdominal segment, and four or five indistinct diagonal streaks, of a rather darker green than the 
body-colour, across the segments, each side of the abdomen. Head bifid, the tips yellowish green. 
Attached by the tip of the abdomen without a girdle. The chitinous envelope of this pupa is of a 
rather soft consistence. 
Larva, PI. Vila, Fig. 9, pupa Fig. 8. 
Euthalia lubentina, Cram. 
Egg, domed but much flattened, thus in section ^s, the upperside honeycombed with 
large but shallow reticulations, from the ridges of which spring stout yellow hairs, each hair bearing 
at the tip a small globule of yellow viscous fluid. General colour of the egg shiny yellow-brown. 
Laid singly on the upperside of the leaves of Loranthus chinensis. See figure of egg on 
Plate Vila. 
Danais plexippus, Linn. 
Under Danais plexippus , page 9, it should have been noted that this butterfly, especially 
during the middle of the dry season, often develops numerous white scales on the upperside of the 
hindwings, chiefly in the median interspaces just below the disc, cell, and also along the inner or 
abdominal margin ; so that the hindwings often have a considerable extent of white. All the 
species of Danais here have a habit of settling towards evening on the underside of dead or bare 
twigs of trees, from which they hang with the wings closed. Papilio clytia also has the same 
habit. 
Catochrysops cnejus, Fair. 
The larva of this Lycaenid has, one on each side of the dorsal surface of the twelfth or 
penultimate segment, two retractile fleshy processes which are usually drawn level with the dorsal 
surface, but on occasion are exserted perhaps ^ inch. The processes are pinkish white and the 
tops of them are slightly globular and provided with radiating glandular hairs. These processes 
can be exserted independently. There is also a dorsal glandular aperture on the median line of the 
larva, on the eleventh segment. The annexed sketch (much enlarged and 
diagrammatic) represents the retractile process on one side only of the larva ; 
the glandular aperture (G) is indicated on the dorsal surface. A large species 
of gray and black ant occasionally obtains some kind of nutriment from the 
larva, which it touches with its antennas and forelegs, whereupon the larva extrudes and vibrates the 
fleshy processes, which seem to be moist with some viscous liquid. The larva of Catochrysops 
cnejus is not, however, absolutely dependent on ants for its existence, as seems to be the case with 
the larva of Spindasis lohita , for I have reared many butterflies from the eggs without the inter¬ 
vention of ants. Besides Abrus precatorius the larvae of C. cnejus also feed on Pueraria 
phaseoloides , Benth., Nat. Ord. Leguminosce. 
