LYCANID. VIKACHOLA. 48 
Mr. F. E. Pargiter in 1881 wrote this note “ The larva [of /. zsocrates] feeds on the leaves [?] 
and fruit of the Guava tree. It is rather plentifully clothed with short whitish hair. In the 
two white spots at the tail are two small horn-like processes, which the larva continually protrudes 
and retracts.”” This latter note appears to be conclusive as to the larva having the special organs 
affected by ants, and that it is attended by ants, though I have failed to find these. 
V. zsocrates is very common in Calcutta during the winter, much affecting the flowers of 
the Povnsettia. It appears to occur almost everywhere in the plains of India except the desert 
tracts, but it is not found in Assam or Burma. 
1013. Virachola perse, Hewitson. 
Deudorix perse, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 18, n. 2, pl. vii, figs. 24, 25 male; 26, female 
(1863) ; Virachola perse, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 104, pl. xl, figs. 1, made ; 1a, /emade (1881) ; idem, 
id., Proc. Zool. Lond., 1882, p. 250. © 
Hasirat: Himalayas, Dehra Dun, Orissa, Bombay, Nilgiris, Ceylon. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°40 to 1°95 ; 2, 1°80 to 2°35 inches. 
Description : “Mave. UPPERSIDE, doth wings brown, the middle silvery blue. 77+ 
weng with the veins anda spot on the anal lobe black. UNDERSIDE, doth wings with a 
spot at the end of the cell and a transverse macular band beyond the middle, all rufous-brown, 
bordered on both sides with black; a submarginal band of brown spots. Mzxdwing with 
a black spot near the base ; the caudal spot, the lobe, and spot between them which is irrorated 
with blue, black. FEMALE, differs only from the male in being larger, and in having a 
medial spot of white on the UPPERSIDE of the forewing.” (Hewitson, 1. c.) 
MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings deep purplish-black, deeper black in the discoidal cell. 
Cilia slightly ochreous. /ovewzzg with the basal area from the inner margin to just within 
the discoidal cell, not nearly reaching the outer margin, and bounded anteriorly partly by the 
first median nervule, rich shining bright blue ; the wing sometimes otherwise unmarked, 
sometimes witha small, often with a large round discal ferruginous-ochreous spot or patch beyond 
the cell. Aixdwing with the costa broadly, the outer margin decreasingly black, the 
abdominal margin pale fuscous, the rest of the wing blue as in the forewing ; the anal lobe 
centred with dull ochreous, outwardly marked by a black spot ; ¢az7 black tipped with white. 
UNDERSIDE, doth wings reddish-vinous. Forewing with the inner margin paler ; two heavy 
short black lines on either side of the disco-cellular nervules, a discal catenulated band from 
the costa to the submedian interspace, each spot with blackish outer edges, an indistinct 
submarginal macular darker fascia. Mzxdwing with a prominent blackish rounded spot to- 
wards the base of the wing below the costal nervure ; two spots enclosing the disco-cellular 
nervules ; a discal irregular catenulated band ; a submarginal indistinct macular fascia ; the 
anal lobe black, a small round black spot onthe margin in the first median interspace 
surrounded by a pale ochreous ring. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings withthe blue coloration 
paler and more diffused than in the male, merging into a whitish patch, sometimes tinged with 
ochreous, beyond the cell in the forewéng. Otherwise as in the male. 
The LARVA when full-grown and fully extended is about ‘9 of an inch in length, sometimes 
even I'I inches long ; its general ground-colour is rather deep flesh-colour or pinky, more or less 
irregularly blotched with darker reddish-brown ; the whole surface is smooth and shiny, thickly 
set with minute black hairs or bristles. The divisions between the segments are fairly-well 
marked, as each segment slopes gradually upwards from before backwards, all the segments are 
very much wrinkled and pitted, and each bears below the spiracles a small wart-like tubercle 
covered with longish white bristles ; there is alsoa similar but smaller subdorsal series of 
tubercles and bristles. The larva isof the usual lycenid shape, the head smooth, pale, and 
completely retractile into the second segment, the third segment the largest, whence the remain- 
ing segments gradually decrease in width tothe last. Thetwo anal segments are abruptly cut 
off or flattened from above (scutate), this round depressed portion being largely used by the larva 
when at rest inside the fruit on which it feeds to close the orificein the fruit through which its 
