304
May
1
22
2 23
3 24
NOTES AND QUERIES
Evacuation
Wandering, attachment of cremastral pad, etc.
Pupation occurs
Note: the sizes of the larva, given in mm., were all taken when the larva was at rest; measurements taken for example, on the 21st (day 12) showed the larva to be 27-28 mm at rest and 33 mm when active. Similarly, measurements taken on the 28th (day 19) showed the larva to be 60 mm. at rest and 70 mm when active.
Pictorial Record of Larval Development
The coloured plates at the end of this volume are not to scale (refer to sizes shown in the Record of Larval Development):
(a) Egg (approximately 2.5 mm Ø)
(b) Freshly emerged larva eating its egg
(c) Larva 2nd instar
(d) Larva-late 2nd instar
(e) Larva-early 3rd instar
(f) Larva-early 4th instar
(g) Larva-late 4th instar
(h) Larva-late 4th instar showing transparent osmaterium
(i) Larva-securing itself prior to pupation
(j) Typical pupa. (The colour varies from light brown to green depending on the background colour of the plant on which the larva pupates).
(k) 1
(l) (m)
emerging, expanding and drying its wings
(n) Male imago
(o) Female imago
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(1) New Records and a Check List of Butterflies from Hong Kong by Major J. N. Eliot (Memoirs of the H.K. Biological Circle, No. 2, Dec., 1953).
(2) V.R. Burkhardt, "Hong Kong Butterflies”, JHKBRAS 4 (1964): 97-104. "A Hong Kong Butterfly", JHKBRAS 10 (1970): 63-68.
(3) Corbet and Pendlebury, The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula (Kuala Lumpur, 1934).