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Show 1880.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM CANDAHAR. 411 22. GANORIS M A N N I I (no. 1). Pontia mannii, Mayer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1851, p. 151. "Found throughout the year, very common in June. I have not met with this in any part of India." The pair sent to me were taken in coitu. HESPERIID^E. 23. E R Y N N I S MARRUBII (no. 17). Hesperia malvarum, var. marrubii, Herrich-Schaffer, Schmett. Eur. i. Hesp. figs. 14, 15 (1845). "Occurs in May, and common in June." The specimen sent home was taken at the beginning of July. "Larva 116. About 10'" long; thickest in the middle, rather attenuated at each end ; sluggish and wrapped up in a leaf. "Skin soft, but with ribbed and irregular surface and covered with very short and minute whitish hairs. General colour dull (dusty) green; dorsal line green, very fine and only visible on a iew oi the front segments. Head large, globular, slightly indented at the top, deep black (like charcoal), much larger than several segments which follow; second segment smaller than head or third segment and forming a black neck or collar with three large yellow spots on it. Subdorsal stripe of a paler green than the ground-colour, but rather dull; spiracular, slightly raised or projecting flesh from the sides. Rokeran, Candahar, end of June ; wrapped up in the leaves of the mallow, on which it feeds. " Pupa, wrapped up in a leaf, tightly webbed in and fastened by the tail only. Colour, brown washed with white." SPHINGID^E. 24. CHCEROCAMPA CRETICA. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 8.) Deilephila cretica 2 > Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1827, p. 118.pl. 6. " The larva of this species was exceedingly common on the vine (which is largely cultivated here) end of May and June. It is closely allied to one found at Jutogh and in Kashmir on the wild balsam, but is distinct; the moth of this species is, I think, of a much paler colour on the front wings. Out of over 100 larvae which I examined I could not find one black variety (of course they turn brown just before changing), while in the other species the larva is as often black as green, so far as my experience goes. Every specimen of this changed in about two to three weeks after becoming a chrysalis, while with the Kashmir (balsam) one they all remained through the winter in the pupa state." "Larva 113. About 3" long, at rest; anterior segments attenuated and retractile. Robust, skin soft and smooth. " Horn very short, slightly curved, pale mauve or purple, pink at tip. General colour green (agreeing with the underside of the vine-leaves), speckled with pale yellow. A thread-like green dorsal line ; a pale yellow subdorsal stripe, meeting the one on the opposite side |