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than the others. Antenuse black, the shafts speckled as usual with white ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen brown, with a pale purplish flush on the thorax 

 and abdomen in fresh specimens ; beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen 

 white or grey. Female. Upperside : in the commonest form dark greyish- 

 blue. Fore wing : the costa, apex and termen very broadly fuscous-black, 

 with an obscure, black, anticiliary line as in the male. Hind wing : as in 

 the male but the costal dusky brownish-black edging much broader, always 

 more or less contmued along the termen ; the subterminal rows of spots 

 often nearly complete to apex, those in interspaces 2 and 3 very large and 

 ■crowned inwardly with ochraceous yellow, in some specimens more or less 

 obsolescent. Specimens of the female with the ground-colour on the upper- 

 side entirely brown and the terminal markings on the hind wing indistinct 

 a,re not uncommon. Underside: as in the male, the markings on the whole 

 more distinct. Antennse, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male, but 

 without the purplish flush seen on some specimens of the latter. Expanse ; 

 male and female, 23-30 mm. 



Egg. — Circular in shape, depressed ; the upper surface very slightly sun- 

 ken, almost flat ; twice as broad as high. Surface covered with reticula- 

 tions, forming little cells of various shapes with an irregular net -work- 

 pattern of triangles and squares with irregular sides ; the intersections of 

 the lines forming the cells are thickened in various degrees and prominent, 

 some more prominent than others ; on the depressed part of the top or 

 crown the reticulations are without knobs at the intersections ; the knobs 

 on the sides diminish in height towards the base; the central micropyle is 

 darker than the rest of the egg and is more or less smooth and irregular in 

 •contour on the whole ; surface is slightly shining ; the bottoms of the cells 

 finely granular. Colour clear greenish-blue with the reticulations and 

 knobs white. B : O. o mm. ; H : O. 25 mm. 



Laroa. — In the first stage is like all other lycfenid larvje in shape. Head 

 shining, greenish-olive with black mandibles and eyes ; round in shape. 

 Surface dull, sprinkled with minute, black points ; the dorsum is depressed 

 down the dorsal line and, on each side of it on each segment are two 

 subdorsal long, white, serrated hairs curving backwards, the anterior one 

 the longer ; laterally are two spiracle-like discs outlined with dark olive : 

 below these again, supraspiracular, are two minute tubercles, each bearing 

 a club-shaped hair except on segments 6, 7, 8 which have hairs only on the 

 X^osterior tubercle ; a subspiracular row of three long, dark-based hairs 

 projecting laterally on each segment ; some similar serrated hairs on the 

 lateral, ventral surface and shorter ones on the pseudo-legs. The sides of 

 the body are sloping from the dorsal hairs to the dorsoventral margin. 

 Colour pale ochraceous in shade, pale grey in bright light ; whitish to the 

 naked eye. L : O. 7o mm. finally 2 mm. before the first moult. In the 

 second stage the body is considerably humped doisally in segments 3 to 10, 

 segments 2, 11, 12, 13 being rather depressed with a decided lateral ridge. 

 Head shining black, set with a few fine, whitish hairs. Surface is finely 

 granulated and studded all over with serrated hairs of various lengths, 

 the subdorsal and lateral ones longest and curved ; the former dusky, 

 the latter whitish, all with bulbous bases from which rise thorn-like, 

 minute spines so that each base forms a star-like body ; numerous 

 discs, besides, scattered over the body. Colour pale yellow with a dorsal, 

 longitudinal, brownish stripe ; a diagonal, lateral, brownish stripe to 

 each segment and a sub-spiracular, rust-coloured line, bordered above 

 with whitish. Other forms occur : pale greenish with slightly darker 

 markings. L : 2 mm. 



After this, the shape is very similar to the last, but on segment 11 there 

 is a rudimentary gland surrounded by minute, star-like processes and a 



