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This species has not been included in the key because it was at first thought 

 that it was confined to the hiUs of the Kanara District. This is, however, not 

 the case. It occurs all along the Western Ghats, (Kat, Mahableshwar, Matheran) 

 and, probably, into the Thana District. 



Egg. — Nearly hemispherical in shape, pitted with coarse depressions, some of 

 them filled in with the white surface-covering which is spread, so to speak, all 

 over the green shell — really an arrangement of cells with very thick, malformed 

 walls ; the micropyle apical, smaU, green, with thin netlines romid it. Surface 

 shining. Colom* green, but spread all over so thickly with the white enamel- 

 like ceU-waU substance that little of the ground-colour is visible. Resembles 

 very closely the egg of Tajuria cippus. B : 0*8 mm ; H : 0-35 mm. 



Larva. — The larva is of the normal type more or less but more parallel-sided. 

 Generally : it is a grass-green larva with indistinct short, diagonal, lateral lines 

 on the segments, has black spiracles and a large, conspicuous, enamel-white, 

 somewhat brown-stained, four-cornered, transverse, dorsal mark on segment 2 

 with the angles in the dorsal line ; the transverse, mouth-shaped gland on 

 segmJnit 11 red-brown with the centre white ; segment 2 in no way covered by 

 segment 3 but quite free : the head, however, as usual, hidden mider segment 2. 

 Head is of the ordinary size, hidden, romid in shape, shining whitish in colour ; 

 with a large, triangular clypeus which is slightly brown-marked along lateral lower 

 margins ; smooth as to surface ; eyes, jaws red-bro\Mi in colour. The sJiape 

 of the body is onisciform ( that of a Polyommatus or Castalius), the segments 

 well marked, segment 2 swollen romid the front margin, flat on dorsum behind 

 the flange and in front of the hinder margin ; third segment front margin rising 

 from segment 2 evenly dorsaUy, continued in segment 4, &c., to about centre of 

 larva ; segments 5 to 10 being about the same height ; the division between seg- 

 ments 11 and 12 very difiicult to make out ; the mouth in the dorsal centre of 

 the piece consisting of these two segments, transverse, rather small though cons- 

 picuous because brown with a white centre ; the anal flap and segment 13 some- 

 what extensive, a quarter ellipsoid, being convex, round-ended and inclined 

 somewhat to be pointed; the prolegs are as usual, cylindrical, of usual develop- 

 ment ; the legs ditto. Surface of body is covered with minute, short, erect, 

 blackbristly hairs, ordinarily hardly perceptible to the naked ejQ ; all except 

 the diamond-shaped surface, large and enamel-like white, bordered stained 

 brown along edges, situated in the dorsal centre of segment 2 ; segment 2, when 

 the larva is in repose with the head withdrawn imder it, is very like the anal 

 segment but without the thickened border or flange ; the base of prolegs 

 and the corresponding region of ventrum is covered with light, soft, erect 

 hairs. Spiracles not very small, romidly oval, flush, black, rather conspi- 

 cuous, those of segments 2 and 12 not any larger than the others. Colour rich 

 darkish apple-green with indication of darker, dorsal, pulsating line and short, 

 subdorsal and lateral, diagonal stripes on each segment ; also indications of 

 similar, lateral line and spiracular line. In certain positions the segments are 

 better marked than in others and pits appear in centre of segments in dorsal 

 line as well as lateral folds nearly parallel to the segment margins. L : 20mm ; 

 B : 6mm. 



Pupa. — The pupa is attached by the tail, has a body band and the belly 

 flattened to fit the smiace of attachment closely ; this is so far fairly normal, 

 except for the flattening to slightly larger extent of the belly ; the abdomen 

 is shortened to a considerable extent and hy so much the broader, being swollen 

 out sideways like the abdomen of the pupa of Curetis thetis ; there is however 

 here more separation of the abdomen from the thoracic portion than in that 

 pupa by constriction and the segments 1-5 as a whole piece are longer; the front 

 of pupa is semi-circularly roimded, the side lines sloping away from each other, 



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