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Underside : As in the wet-season brood but the ground-colour paler, in some 

 specimens miuch paler, the markings on both fore and hind wings similar, 

 with frequently the terminal markings obsolescent, sometimes entirely 

 absent or only indicated anteriorly on each wing. Cilia whitish. Antennse, 

 head, thorax and abdomen as in the wet-season specimens. — Female. 

 Similar to the female of the wet-season brood, but more like the male, with 

 the light silvery-blue suffusion very irregular, but generally extended 

 much further outwards from the base, In a female from Poona, 

 the fore wing on the upper side has the basal half silvery blue, the 

 outer half black ; on hind wing, however, the blue colour extends almost 

 to the termen which is only narrowly edged with diffuse dusky black. 

 Underside: as in the male; the ground-colour slightly darker. An- 

 tennse, head, thorax and abdomen similar to those of the male. Expanse : 

 male and female, 28"32 mm. 



Egg. — Is turban-shaped, half as high as broad, the sides perpendicular 

 to the top and, perhaps, slightly convex ; the actual base flat and slightly 

 of shorter diameter than the middle of the sides (^. e., than the diameter 

 of the egg half way up) ; the top sometimes very slightly concave ; the 



whole covered with cells on the top : all cells 

 without any knobs at the inter sections, the 

 w^alls all slightly raised, not extremely fine, the 

 cells all more or less hexagonal although, some- 

 times, seemingly irregularly oval, decreasing in 

 size inwards, 24 or more of them on the outside 

 circumference irregularly larger and smaller ; 

 about 14 round the micropyle which is about the 

 diameter of two ordinary cells and about l/5th 

 or l/6th of the diameter of the whole egg, being 

 just the very centre of the top, depressed below 

 Zizera maha. the walls of the cells but itself covered with minu- 



tely thin reticulations all over its surface ; the sides of the egg different : 

 because every intersection of cell-walls is swollen into a pyramid shaped 

 knob with the top rounded coarsely enough and the sides raj'^ed with (I 

 raised walls which radiate out and down on to the surface to run up again 

 on to the surrountiing 6 knobs — these knobs not regularly disposed at all 

 however but, all the same, always 6 in number round whichever is taken 

 as the central one — there are about 3 knobs from the top of the side to 

 the bottom and, as stated above (for the cells of the top) about 24 round 

 the circumference, and seven rows of small cells from the micropyle to it. 

 The surface of the egg is shining, the bottoms of the cells greenish, the 

 rays or walls always pure chalk-white. The H : 0'5mm. by B : 02omm. 



Larva. — It is of ordinary lycsenid shape with the front part rounded 

 but somewhat flattened or blunt,* the hinder end semi-circularly rounded 

 and very nearly as broadly so as the front ; the dorsal outline more or 

 less convex except on the anal segments 12-14 where it is nearly straight 

 as the anal segments are themselves somewhat flattened ; the transverse 

 section a curve between a quarter and a half circle ; segment 2 with thf 

 central depression rather far back, transversely longly triangular, greyish 

 and with a tiny black hair-tubercle or hair at each lateral end on its 

 surface, i. e., near its lateral end, for it is some way removed from the 

 edge ; segment 3 somewhat suddenly higher than segment 2 and inclined 

 to be somewhat flattened on dorsum, its front margin somewhat waved 

 thrice — segment 2 rises up towards segment 3 behind the depression — of 

 course the front part of larva, as represented by segments 3-6, is, in most 

 positions, the highest and fattest part of the larva though, when at rest, 

 normally, the body is slightly fattest about segment 6 as usual with this 



