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Mr. J. O. Westwood on a Species 
rich red colour of the pomegranate fruit. In the chrysalis state the 
belly of the insect is placed in contact with the inner surface of the 
fruit; consequently, as the slit by which the butterfly escapes out of 
the puparium extends along the back, the under surface ot the latter 
remains entire, the anterior lateral portions on each side the slit 
(extending as far as the whole coverings of the wings) curling up 
and laying close upon those parts which had covered the breast and 
limbs, leaving the abdominal portion in the same form as when it 
inclosed the insect. This, therefore, enables me to give the fol- 
lowing concise description of the pupa : — 
Short, robust, obtuse at each end, posteriorly rounded, without 
any unevennesses upon the surface of the body, of a dark brown 
colour, covered with minute darker spots. 
The perfect insect belongs to the genus Thecla, and to that section 
of it which Dr. Horsfield has termed Theda stride sic dicta. “ Alae 
posticse appendiculo anali caudaque solitaria munitse.” 
It may be thus characterized: — 
Thecla Isocrates. 
Supra. Alee £ obscure fuscse, nitore subplumbeo micantes, di- 
midio apicali in certo situ (nisi extremo apice anticarum) pur- 
pureo relucentes. 9 fuscse, basi subplumbese, anticse macula 
centrali fulva. 
In utroque sexu appendiculo anali maculisque duabus arese 
analis nigris (quarum major in femina luteo intus cingitur), 
squamulis argenteis versus angulum ani notatis. Caudis nigris, 
apice albis. 
Subtus. Alee albido vel griseo canescentes, fasciis duabus tenuibus 
subregularibus per alas (pone medium) currentibus alterisque 
duabus in singula ala abbreviatis discoideis, appendiculo anali 
nigro, macula anali caeruleo-argentea, alteraque approximata 
nigra, intus fulvo cincta. 
Expans. alar. $ 1 unc. 4 lin. 9 1 unc. 8 lin. 
Habitat in India orientali, ubi Tunicas destruit ; larvis semina de- 
vorantibus. 
In Mus. nostr. 
Syn. Hesperia Isocrates, Fab. Ent. Syst. 3. 266, 29, j . 9 Encycl. 
Method. 9. 633. 
Hesperia Pann. Fab. Ent. Syst. 3. 276. 67 9 . Herbst. 28S. 9. 10 . 
Wings above in the male of a dirty brown colour, with an obscure 
leaden coloured tinge, the exterior half of all the wings (except the 
outer angle of the upper) changing in certain lights to a rich purple 
colour ; the borders of the wings are uniformly darker, the anal 
