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the upper six squarish, the seventh angled, the series irregular, the second 

 spot a little outwards, the fifth a little inwards touching the lower end of 

 the spot of the discoidal band and decreasing in size hindwards ; the 

 angular spot running in on to the abdominal margin one-third above the 

 anal angle, a submarginal series of similar spots, increasing in size hind- 

 wards ; anal lobe black ; a linear white mark, and a curved streak of 

 metallic-blue scales above it ; a black spot in the first interspace, ringed 

 with orange. — Female. Upperside : fulvous-brown. Fore wing : with some 

 fulvous suffusion below the median vein, varying in extent in difl'erent 

 examples. Hind wing with the abdominal fold pale, in some examples 

 without any markings, in some the entire wing is tinted with fulvous ; 

 and sometimes there are indications of a series of fulvous, submarginal 

 spots. Underside as in the male, the ground colour often much paler. 

 Expanse ; male, 35 to 48 mm ; female, 32-50 mm. 



LJffff. — Depressed — hemispherical, broadest just above base, with a central, 

 apical depression ; 14 rows of more or less square, fine-walled cells from 

 the top to base with a small prominent point at each wall-intersection ; 

 walls fine, subregular, nearly all meeting in the apical depression ; colour 

 white, shining. B: O. 5mm ; H: O. 25mm. 



Larva. — The general shape of the body is, perhaps, the normal lycfenid 

 form but tapering more than usual to the end, the transverse section being 

 convex over dorsum, flat on the ventrum, the fore-end semicircularly 

 rounded, the anal end which, composed of segments 12-14, is an elongated 

 semi-circle in outline with a strong dorsal slope, thickened round the edges, 

 the whole dorsal part inside being a flat, circular surface formed into a 

 sort of flat disc to fit the hole which the larva makes in the rind of the 

 fruit : it is admirably constituted to clean out the refuse from inside— for 

 which purpose it is actually used ; Head shining red-brown ; eyes black ; 

 clypeus round-topped triangular, slightly sunk at apex, half the height 

 of the head, with a thin, whitish border-line continued up on to the vertex 

 of head as the dorsal line ; labrum and basal, antennal joint dirty-white ; 

 ligula and second joint dirty-orange ; the ligula large with a shallow, 

 frontal sinus, segment 2 is semicircular, also tumid round the margin, the 

 dorsum being occupied by a large triangular depression with the sides 

 curved, the base along the hinder margin and shining at the bottom but 

 not very deep ; the whole slightly ascending towards segment 3 from the 

 front margin ; segment 3 is a good deal broader and higher than segment 

 2: segment 4 than 3 ; segments 5, 6 are the broadest and highest part of 

 the body ; it thence decreases both in breadth and height to segment 10 ; 

 segment 11 is somewhat narrower and lower than 10 and flattened dorsally 

 with the transverse, mouth-shaped gland at its hinder margin; segments 

 12-14 are dorsally indistinguishable from each-other, composing the 

 "shovel" and the organs are situated on this flat, circular shovel as well as 

 the last pair of spiracles, and the protrusible bodies are white and cylind- 

 rical. Surface of body shining and oiled-looking, covered densely with 

 small, moderately short, erect, blackish bristles ; round the dorsoventral 

 margin and round the shovel, as well as along the front margin of segments 2 

 and 3, is a row of long, erect, lightish hairs three or four times as long as the 

 bristles 7 or 8 to each segment ; each segment from 4-10 has a dorsal and late- 

 ral, transverse depression, the spiracles being situated in the bottoms of the 

 end of the lateral ones. Spiracles are conspicuous, large, oval, light yellow — 

 the lateral depressions are fairly broad. Colour ia dirty leaden-green, seg- 

 ment 2 and segment 3 yellow ; segments 4, 5, and 10 are a dirty brown-green, 

 segments 7-8 dorsally pale-orange except for a dorsal, central small patch 

 of ground colour and a subspiracular white patch ; the centre of the 

 "shovel" is also dirty brown-green. L : 16mm ; B : 6-25mm ; H : 4-75mm. 



