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171. Creon cleobis, Godart. Male. — C/ppem(?e; fore wing with the discoidal 

 cell and the posterior base as far as the posterior angle brilliant, light sky- 

 blue ; the rest of the wing black-brown. Hind wing : brilliant, light sky-blue 

 with black-brown cilia, tipped white between the tails ; abdominal margin 

 gray or cream-colour. Underside : both wings light creamy-brown with a well 

 defhied, narrow, undulating band of indian-red crossing the wings, terminat- 

 ing towards the abdominal margin in a zigzag mamier on the hind wing ; near 

 the exterior margins is an obsolescent brown, transverse, subterminal line 

 of lunules ; near anal angle of hind wing two black spots, one on anal lobe in 

 interspace 2, bordered interiorly with an orange lunule, outwardly the space 

 powdered with white, interspace aU powdered with white. — Female. Upper- 

 side : both wings differ from those of the male in their paler, duller blue colora- 

 tion, that colour being more extensive on the fore wing. Hind wing : with 

 the costa broadly black, with a series of marginal, black spots on outer margin. 

 Underside : both wings as in the male, but lighter in shade. Antennte black 

 banded white ; club rounded, tipped broadly orange. Palpi brown above, 

 white elsewhere. Head w'ith vertex grey, frons grey bordered, brown : eyes 

 white rimmed. Thorax and abdomen are coloured with red above and below. 

 The submarginal line is really double and filled in whitish, plainest on hind 

 wing near anal angle. An anteciliary brown fine line bordered by a fine white 

 one inside in interspaces 3, 2, 1, 15. 



Cilia light brown, at anal angle mixed with white. Tail at 1 straight down 

 5| mm., at 2 horizontal 3 mm., the one narrow, the other thread-like brown, 

 tipped white Exp. 35. 



Egg. — Nearly hemispherical covered with large, coarse-walled cells, three 

 in a row from the apical, central pit to the base ; the apical depression evenly 

 concave and circular in shape and large, of the diameter of two of the cells ; 

 the walls of the cells without trace of thickening at their intersections. Surface 

 shining though not much. Colour green which shows only at the bottoms of 

 the cells. B : 0-8 mm., H : 0-4 mm. 



Larva.- — The shape is very similar to that of Tajuria cippus with the same 

 prominence of the dorsal parts of segments at the margins, the same kind of 

 " waist " at segment 8-10 but this wailst rather more accentuated here because 

 the segments 11, 12 are comparatively broader; the sm:face of the body is also 

 similarly naked, shining-oily looking. Head rather small, shining, light in 

 colour with dark mandMes, hidden under segment 2. Segment 2 with a tumid 

 margin, more or less semi-circular in general outline with a deep, four-sided 

 depression dorsally, this depression with a thin, white, dorsal line joining two 

 angles ; segment 3 is abruptly higher than segment 2 and overhangs its hinder 

 margin with its anterior part or declivity, the dorsum being flattened and 

 corrugated w'ith a large, deep, transverse depression or dent ; segment 4 is 

 slightly higher again than segment 3 and is transversely convex dorsally and 

 forms the highest part of the body ; segments 5 and 6 are similar to segment 

 4 but descend posteriorly successively and are slightly flanged along the dorso- 

 ventral margins; the body is broadest at these segments 5, 6; segments 7-10 

 are narrower and lower successively and have the hinder margin dorsally tumid 

 and slightly overhanging each the front margin of the segment immediately 

 succeeding so that, from a side-view, the dorsal outline looks dentate ; segments 

 11 and 12 as one piece, broaden out laterally a lot and are much broader than 

 segment 10 at their broadest part which is about their common margin. Seg- 

 ment 11 is dorsaUy as high as segment 10 and has a small, mouth-shaped gland, 

 the organs on segment 12 not easily perceptible, circular and broAMiish-pink 

 in colour ; segment 14 is rather narrow and square at the extremity, overhanging 

 the anal claspers a good deal. Surface of larva, as said above, shining, oily. 



