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Show 1896.] FROM ARABIA AND SOMALILAND. 247 of specimens. Most of them, I think, are T. yerburii. I bred this species from larva? found oil plant No. 4 (this plant could not be identified at B. M.) at Shaik Othman. The following is a description of the larva:- Head orange, lateral stripes of the same colour. Ground-colour of back plumbeous, a darker stripe along centre, the whole faintly dotted with white. Below the lateral orange stripe there is a slight protuberance on each segment, black in colour with white dots. The whole larva is covered with short bristly hair. Pupa :-ground-colour pale lilac, with a purplish stripe along centre and yellow lateral stripes. From all the pupae emerged typical T. yerburii, except from one which produced T. nouna, much to m y surprise. I did not notice that one of the larva? was different from the others, so the larva of T. nouna must closely resemble that described above \ " TERACOLUS DAIRA, $ (for J, see footnote). I have never come across this form on the Arabian side. " TERACOLUS ANTEVIPPE. Given m e by Lieut. Sparrow. " CATOPSILIA FLORELLA. These I cannot properly separate. I bred some Catopsilice from larva? found feeding on plant No. 5 (Cassia sp. ? could not be satisfactorily identified at B. M . ) . The following is a description of the larva :- Ground-colour pea-green ; a black, interrupted, but very distinct lateral stripe, and below it a broader stripe of an orange-yellow colour. The larva is rough, but not hairy; the whole of the back and head are covered with minute black dots. Length, when full-grown, about 1| inches. The pupa is green. One came out typical florella 2 '•> two others more like pyrene. " BELENOIS MESEHTINA, var. LORDACA. Swarms at Shaik Othman and in the desert generally. This, both in the larval and imago stages, seems to be the same as B. mesentina. The larvae feed on several plants, are gregarious, hundreds being found on a single bush. They are greenish, slightly hairy ; head black, dotted with white ; a broad chocolate-coloured stripe on each side, faintly dotted with white. Some of them remained only five days in the pupal stage. " BELENOIS LEUCOGYNE. I did not find this species at all common, and only got two or three specimens. 1 Starved examples of this species were separated and numbered from 252- 257 with the note :-" This appears to be something different from T. yerburii." The males of T. daira were confounded with T. yerburii.-A. G. B. |