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black ringed with white, chib with a dull red tip, and a white streak 

 beneath ; frons grey, with a brown, median stripe ; eyes ringed with white ; 

 head and body brown above, with red hairs, pale purplish-brown beneath; 

 the abdomen ochreous-grey. — Female. Upfier&ide duller in colour than the 

 male, often more or less brick-red. Fore wing with the marginal bands 

 dark brown or blackish-brown. Hind wing still duller in colour, generally 

 sufl'used with pale brown. Underside as in the male. Expanse 32 — 40mm. 



Egg. — A slightly depressed section of a sphere in shape. Surface shining; 

 covered all over with extremely minute, slightly concave-bottomed, hexa- 

 gonal cells which are separated from each other by low, even walls of one- 

 third the width of a cell-diameter and perhaps similar height where these 

 cells are largest — which is anywhere immediately round the micropyle- 

 surface and for a short distance from it; there are about 4 cells to 0'05mm. 

 square ; the micropyle-surface is quite circular, depressed and O'Olmm. 

 in diameter ; at the intersection of the cell-walls are, one at each, 

 0.016mm. long, blunt-topped (even slightly dilated-topped ), transparent, 

 erect spines or excrescences. Colour yery light green. B: O'Gomm. H : 

 0.375ram. 



Over 100 eggs were taken out of the body of a butterfly. The size of 

 the cells decreases, as usual, towards the apex in top third and is smallest 

 immediately around the micropyle-surface. 



Larva. (PI. II, fig. 24). — Is of the same type exactly as those of Rapala 

 schistacea and raruna. Head hidden by segment 2 ; surface shining ; 

 light-yellow in colour ; mandibles white, the mouth opening margined with 

 black ; shape round. Segment 2 rounded in front, slightly constricted 

 behind with a notch-emargination in centre of the front margin ( dorsal) 

 and a very short, thick tooth at each posterior dorsolateral corner ; trian- 

 gular, dorsal depression light-brown in colour ; end segment slightly convex, 

 sloping to end, the last produced out behind in two triangular teeth point- 

 ing slightly up ; segments 11, 12 each with a similar tooth pointing slightly 

 back and up ; segments 3-10 have each a subdorsal and dorsoventral tooth 

 which are all thick at the base and cylindrical at top, short, fleshy ; the 

 eff'ect of these two rows is that the dorsum is flat between the ridges of 

 subdorsal teeth on each side ; the dorsoventral teeth point out and slightly 

 forwards and the space-area of each segment between the subdorsal and 

 dorsolateral rows is more or less flat and hexagonal-looking ; segment 3 is 

 cut nearly square in front through the axis of the teeth. Surface of body 

 smooth and ( naked ?), tops of the teeth have some hairs on them, all white 

 and short except those on anal segment which has 3 or 4 longish hairs ; anal 

 and front margin with longish, fine, white hairs. Spiracles very small, 

 situated at base of dorsolateral teeth, Colour of larva is pure white with a 

 faint greenish tint and a faint marbling on sides. The larva is broader at 

 segments 5, 6 and is broader than high at that point ; at both ends the 

 breadth is equal. L : 18mm. ; B : 6mm. 



Pupa. ( PI. II., fig. 24 ), — Head hidden under segment 2, the frons not 

 much bowed, high; segment 2 trapeze-shaped seen from above, broadest 

 side posteriorly ; thorax stout, humped; abdomen broader and higher at 

 segment 7 than is the case at thorax ; the pupa is similar to that of raruna. 

 Surface clothed with fine, erect hairs on segments 1, 2 along the front mar- 

 gin of latter, on eyes of former ; otherwise smooth and more or less dull ; 

 two lateral rows of indented spots, one on each side above each depressed 

 spiracle. Spiracles of segment 2 ; facing forwards, oval, white ; others light, 

 roundish, in depressions. Colour of body brownish-pink, blotched minutely 

 with black, having an undefined, dorsal, blackish line and a blotchy blackish 



