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spots, one V-like, above the anal angle ; the lobe and caudal spot black, the former 

 crowned with silvery-blue, the latter with orange ; a black spot between them 

 irrorated with silver, the outer margin black, bordered inwardly with white. 

 Cilia white. (Hewitson). Female. Upperside : both wings pure brown. 

 Fore wing : immaculate. Hind wing : with a broad, oblong, posterior band of 

 a pale azure tint, varying according to the aspect to pale sea-green with a silvery 

 reflection and bearing, at the exterior edge, three oblong, black marks of which 

 the interior is dee|»est black, the whole bordered externally by a white, marginal 

 line separated from the black cilia by an intermediate, black thread which is 

 flexuose in the anal region ; the anal lobe bears a lunule covered with sea-green, 

 resplendent dots. Underside : both wings with the basal portion satin-white, 

 the exterior half brown with a slight violet shade ; the latter further subdivided, 

 in the fore wing, by an intermediate, abbreviated, undulated, whits striga, 

 the posterior half being pale and the whole of the inner (tornal) angle grey. 

 Hind wing : the costal area is white marked with four obsolescent, grey spots 

 which get fainter as they recede from the apical angle ; the anal region is Avhite 

 and bears two very large, strongly pronounced, intensely black, circular, ocellate 

 spots with an intermediate, round group of greenish-silverj^ irrorations ; the 

 exterior ocilhis bears internally a broad, orange lunule spreading in a radiant 

 manner towards the disc ; the second ocellus occupies the lobe and is entirely 

 surromided by a narrow, annular iris of pale green-silvery ; parallel to the line 

 of the ocelli, above them, three delicate, black marks are arranged in a series, 

 the intermediate one forming an angular mark like the letter V, the latter ones 

 two short, oblique striote ; a very faint, oblique, bifid streak stretched from the 

 inner ocellus towards the anal angle. Body brown above, white beneath. An- 

 tennae brown with a ferruginous tip, marked underneath with alternate white 

 and brown bands. Tails white, very delicately fringed at the sides and with a 

 distinct, black, medial line. {Horsfield). 



Larva. — Is similar to the larva of T. cippus in general shape except that there 

 is hardly any "waist" and that the colour is altogether different. The body 

 is nearly the same breadth throughout (except at segments 2 and 14) ; the dorsal 

 " teeth " are only slightly developed, the height at segment 4 is less pronounced 

 than in cippus. The head is black and shining ; the depressed dorsal, 4-sided 

 space on segment 2 is dull-black ; the anal segment is sharply square behind 

 and has an impressed, subdorsal, black mark ; the gland is situated on the top 

 of a tumidity on segment 11. The surface is shining and pitted and corrugated 

 and covered Avith very minute bright orange -coloured tubercules. The spiracles 

 are round, bright yellowish, situated in depressions. Colour is dark chocolate ; 

 the dorsal, flat surface on segment 3, 4 is shining reddish ; there is an 

 obsolescent, dorsal, red line the whole length of the body ; ventrum is rosy 

 white. L. 19 mm.; B : 6 mm.; H : 5 mm. and a little over. 



Pupa. — Shape is also more or less like that of T. cipjnis but is smoother and 

 of a different colour. Head hidden mider segment 2, the frons inclined ven- 

 trally ; segment 2 semicircular as to front margin, broadly and shaUowly emar- 

 ginate (cut out) dorsally on that margin, laterally concave on the dorsmii, rather 

 highly convex longitudinally ; thorax only slightly humped, evenly gently roun- 

 ded, the front ascent being in the same plane as that of segment 2, about an 

 angle of 70* with the longitudinal axis, apex posterior to the line joining the 

 shoulders, this apex the same height as pupa at segment 6 ; shoulders a good deal 

 broader than the hinder margin of segment 2, evenly rounded and of slightly 

 less width than the body is at segment 7 which is the broadest part ; the con- 

 striction at segments 4, 5 slight dorsally as well as laterally ; abdomen convex 

 transversely and swollen out laterally, the last 5 segments 10-14 forming the 

 pedestal or stalk so to speak, which supports the body ; the last segment broad- 

 ened out into the shape of a horse's hoof with the suspensory surface ventral alL 



