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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Observation. —Examples from Ceylon seem to agree fairly well 
with Zeller’s description of tengstroemi and are, I think, identical. 
The fore-tibia is thickened apically with scales, and carries two 
small points which seem to be composed of acuminate scale-tufts ; 
I should scarcely describe these as “ long whitish spines ”* which, 
by Zeller’s description, should project from this scale-thickening. 
Deuterocoptjs rubrodactyltjs^ Pag. 
Rubrodactylus. —Pag., Zoologica, XXIX., 241 ; Meyr., T. E. S., 
1907, 473. 
Tengstroemi. —Meyr. (nec Zell.), B. J., XVII., 134. 
Distribution. —Puttalam, Galle. 
Recorded also from South Africa, India, New Guinea, and the 
Bismarck Archipelago. 
Early Stages. — Ovum. —The egg is about * 44 mm. long by about 
*20 mm. broad; in shape it is ovo-cylindrical, the ends rounded 
and subequal, the micropylar area distinctly depressed ; the surface 
is very smooth and shining, of a very pale orange colour, suffused 
with red at either pole. 
Larva. —A larva found at Galle on June 18, 1908, feeding on the 
flowers of Leea sambucina (Sinh. “ Bouroula ”) was described as— 
“ Pale green without any markings, except red suffusion at either 
extremity. The skin is roughened into minute knobs (like shark 
skin) everywhere, but especially on the ventral region. A distinct 
subsegment is formed on the posterior ventral region of abdominal 
segments. The hairs, except (i.), are very short and inconspicuous ; 
(i.) is short, less than breadth of segments. The hairs are trans¬ 
parent whitish (glassy) and the tubercles very indistinct. The hairs 
are longest on thoracic and anal regions. The legs are extremely 
short and inconspicuous. There are no secondary hairs, these seem¬ 
ing to be reduced to skin-points or rather rugosities of the skin.” 
(Plate E., figure 7.) 
Pupa. —A pupa found on the same occasion was brown with a 
broad lighter ochreous-fuscous central band ; very few hairs or 
projections. It was suspended anally to a flower stalk within a 
slight attempt at a cocoon—a few silken threads spun around it to 
form a spacious but flimsy enclosure, in which the pupa was fully 
visible. The cast larval skin remained at the anal extremity of 
the pupa. Another pupa was green. 
Observation. —This seems to be the commonest form in Ceylon, 
and gradually runs into the more brightly-coloured ritsemce, Wlsm. 
In spite of Pagenstecher's observation, “ Die Art dfirfte .... leicht 
zu erkennen sein,” his description is very brief and poor. 
* '*.aus dem Knoten ragen die langen, weisslichen, auf einer Seite 
echwarzlichen Dornen hervor ”.(Zeller, Linn. Entom., VI., p. 403.) 
