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and apex broadly black ; termen below vein 6 with a regular subterminal 

 series of black spots in the interspaces, enclosed within an inner luniilar 

 and an outer straight, slender, anticiliary, black line ; the veins, except vein 

 •J in the middle slenderly black. Cilia of both fore and hind wings white. 

 Underside : ground-colour and marking similar to those of the male. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male. 



Dry-season brood. — Male and female. Differs very slightly from the wet- 

 season brood. In the male there is a small patch of white on the upperside 

 of the fore wing beyond the cell and on the upperside of the hind wing on 

 the anterior portion of the disc : the extent of this patch varies on the fore 

 wing from a mere touch of white just beyond the cell to a large discal area 

 of white which is diffused with ill-defined margin. In the female the blue 

 iridescence at the base of the wings on the upperside is in some specimens 

 considerably restricted, in others entirely absent. On the underside in 

 both sexes the ground colour is paler and in form and position the mark- 

 ings are much less prominent, though entirely like those of the wet-season 

 brood. Expanse : Male and female, 32-35 mm. 



The terminal, black spots of the hind wing may be enclosed in what 

 amounts to a terminal, black band. 



Larva. — The shape is normal. The head is hidden under segment '2 and 

 is shining, translucent light yellow in colour with brown suffusion about 

 the jaws. Segment 2 is narrow, shortly parabolic in shape, somewhat 

 narrowly square in front, slightly constricted laterally behind, indented 

 slightly just in front of spiracle and with the horizontal top with the usual, 

 dorsal depression ; segment 3 is somewhat suddenly higher than segment 2, 

 has an indentation on its vertex in dorsal line anteriorly besides a small, 

 lateral indentation of the same sort and has the front margin waved gently ; 

 the margins of the succeeding segments are straight ; segments 4 to 9 are 

 equal in height to each other, the succeeding segments slope gradually to 

 anal end ; anal segment rather broad, trapeze-shaped, the somewhat broad- 

 ly square hinder extremity being very slightly concave ; the variation in 

 breadth throughout the whole length of larva is very small, though the 

 middle is, on the whole, the broadest part ; the dorsal line is convex, the 

 slope from it laterallj% on the whole, straight on each side ; the dorsal, 

 transverse gland on segment 9 is mouth-shaped, broad ; the organs on 

 segment 12 are small, circular, white; segment 11 somewhat suddenly 

 lower than segment 10. The surface of the larva is densely covered dorsally 

 with tiny, cylindrical, white, star-topped tubercles or thickened hairs, each 

 surmounted by a little golden, blunt hair which is bent down against the 

 body ; laterally and along the margin, these little golden hairs are sharp- 

 pointed and more erect ; the bottom of the depression on dorsum of seg- 

 ment 2 is covered with minute, red tubercles ; the anal segment is covered 

 with larger, white, star-topped tubercles than the rest of the body with 

 similar appressed hairs ; there are a few longish, fine, light hairs round 

 posterior margin ; there is, also a lateral, depressed, longitudinal line on 

 each side of the anal segment which leave the dorsum and mars-ins rather 

 prominent. Spiracles are flush, nearly circular in shape, of ordinary size 

 and wihte in colour. Colour of larva is a fine plum-pink with dorsal and 

 spiracular, longitudinal lines the whole length of body ; segments 11-14 

 dorsally green-yellow ; there are indistinct, diagonal, lateral, white lines, 

 one to each segment. L : 11 mm ; B: 3. 7-5 mm; H : 3 mm. 



Pupa. — The pupa is also normal in shape. The head is bowed and 

 hidden from view when looked at from above ; segment 2 is square in 

 shape, nearly as broad in front as behind and as the breadth at shoulders, 

 convex dorsally and laterally, very slightly laterally constricted at hinder 

 margin, ascending towards thorax ; thorax with its anterior, dorsal slope 



