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with white on both sides and has a short, white line close below it ; anal 

 lobe black, crowned with dull orange ; a white, anteciliary thread on the 

 lower half of the outer margin. Antennse black, ringed with white ; club 

 tipped with red ; frons black ; eyes ringed with white ; head and bady 

 above and below concolorous with the wings, abdomen below ochreous. — 

 Female. Uppevside paler, pale brown glossed with purple ; consequently 

 the costal and outer marginal black borders more distinct. Underside 

 paler than the male, markings similar. Expanse : 27 — 40 mm. 



Larva. — It is of the same shape exactly as others of the genus ; that is of 

 the lycoenid form generally but with a row of dorsolateral and subspiracular 

 ( dorsoventral ) teeth or short, cylindrical, fleshy protruberances topping 

 broadly conical productions or risings of the larval surface. Each segment 

 3-10 has these ; segment 2 is normal with, the usual four-sided, dorsal de- 

 pression ; segments 11-14 ( segment 13 is entirely wanting or, at least, not 

 traceable ) are without the dorsolateral teeth and the subspiracular ones 

 are situated slightlj'- higher than those of the rest of the segments, those on 

 segment 11 pointing slightly up, those on segment 12 slightly up and back, 

 those of the anal segment straight out and back, diverging slightly from 

 each other and separated broadly at their bases by the perfectly straight 

 hinder margin of the segment, the distance between the bases being well 

 over the length of the tooth. The dorsal depression of segment 2 is 

 smooth and shining, has the margins slightly waved and is more or less the 

 colour of the rest of the body with a pure white, dorsal line as well as a 

 similar line at right angles to it, the two forming a white cross ; the seg- 

 ment itself is tumid as usual, semicircular in shape. Segment 3 has the 

 front margin straight and rising perpendicularly from segment 2, the teeth 

 being situated there, the rest of the segment sloping back and slightly 

 down to the hinder margin ; all, the other segments 4-10 rise suddenly, i.e., 

 in a steep slope to the top of a rather narrow, round-topped ridge behind 

 the middle of each, which ridge bears tho dorsolateral and subspiracular 

 tooth on each side of the dorsal hue where it ( the ridge ) is largely dented 

 between the two dorsolateral risings ; behind the ridge the segments fall 

 nearly perpendicularly to the hinder margin ; also, laterallj^ on each, the 

 whole surface is slightly concave between the dorsolateral and subspiracu- 

 lar teeth on the front slope of the ridge. Segment 11 bears the mouth- 

 shaped, transverse gland on the crest of the ridge ; segments 12 and 14 

 are more or less flat dorsally between the subspiracular teeth and the for- 

 mer bears the usual protrusible organs which are small and often difficult 

 to trace. Head round, shining, light watery greenish-white suftused at eyes 

 and round the mouth-opening with dark red-brown : the labrvim and anten- 

 nae whitish ; the clypeus is large, triangular, outlined thinly red-brown. 

 Surface shining, covered with a few ordinary, minute, lowly convex tuber- 

 cles and short, black hairs ; the teeth set with short, black, radiating hairs: 

 the front margin of segment 2 with a good many light, fine, erect hairs all 

 over it, some of them very nearly as long as the segment itself ( three 

 or four onl}^); some very much shorter hairs on the hinder margin of 

 segment 14; tjie hairs on the "teeth" are as long as the teeth proper 

 themsel'^es (not counting the great conical surface-risings which might be 

 looked upon as their bases). Spiracles small, rather light pinkish-brownish, 

 slightly prominent, duliif>h, very regular-oval ; those of segment 12 larger 

 than the rest. Colour is perhaps, generally, apple-green but the whole is 

 more or less sufl'used throughout with brown-rose ; on each segment is a 

 white line starting subdorsal at the front margin and running down and 

 back to the hinder margin just above and behind the spiracle ; the 

 dorsal region lighter ; the cylindrical teeth nearly white (a sort of livid, 

 soiled-looking yellowish-white) ; the tops or crests of the ridges also lighter ; 



