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lateral line below the spiracles. The usual extensile organ on the 

 twelfth segment short. This larva has no distinctive markings 

 by which it can be easily recognized ; it is altogether a very 

 plainly coloured and marked insect. I have found it common in 

 Calcutta during the rains, the ant which attends it betraying its 

 presence. The latter has been identified by Dr. A. Forel as 

 Camponotus rubripes, Drury (sylvaticus, Fabr.), subspecies com- 

 pressus*, Fabr." (de Niceville.) 



Papa. " Green ; of the usual Lycsenid shape, with a dorsal and 

 lateral series of somewhat obscure conjoined brownish spots on 

 the upperside. Attached to the underside of the leaves of its 

 food-plant in the usual manner." (de Niceville.) 



729. Chilades trochilus, Freyer (Lycaena), Neuere Beitrage Schmett. 



v, 1844, p. 98, pi. 440, tig. 1 ; Lang (Lycaena), Butt. Eur. 1884, 



p. 103, pi. 22, fig. 7 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 91. 

 Lycsena putli, Kollar, HiiyeVs Kaschmir, iv, 1848, p. 422 ; Moore 



(Chilades), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 77, pi. 85, figs. 4, 4 a. 

 Lycaeua parva, Murray, Trans. Ent. Sue. 1874, p. 526, pi. 10, fig. 1. 

 Lycfena gnoma, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xix, 1876, p. 159, pi. 7, 



fig. 1. 



S . Upperside : brown, somewhat variable in tint. Specimens 

 from dry localities are much paler than those taken in areas with 

 a comparatively heavy rainfall. Fore wing : uniform, with a very 

 ill-defined anticiliary dark line in some specimens. Hind wing : 

 a subterminal series of round black spots crowned with pale 

 ochraceous, the posterior four spots generally well defined and 

 outwardly edged with white, the anterior spots obsolescent and 

 without the interior edging of yellow or the outer edging of 

 white ; a well-marked, slender anticiliary black line. Cilia white, 

 basal halves brown. Underside : pale silky brown. Fore wing : 

 with the following white markings : a short line on the inner 

 and outer sides of the discocellulars ; a transverse, slightly curved, 

 discal series of small, more or less incomplete rings ; a transverse 

 postdiscal series of disconnected slender lunules ; a subterminal 

 series of similar but more regular lunuies and a terminal broken 

 line, followed by a dark unbroken anticiliary line ; the ground- 

 colour between the two short discocellular lines, that enclosed 

 within each ring of the discal markings, and between the sub- 

 terminal lunules and the terminal line slightly darker than on 

 the rest of the wing. Hind wing : two short white lines on the 

 discocellulars ; the discal, postdiscal and terminal markings as on 

 the fore wing, except that enclosed between the subterminal 

 series of white lunules and the terminal white line is a complete 

 series of dark spots, the posterior three or four jet-black sprinkled 

 outwardly with metallic-green scales and encircled with pale 

 ochraceous. In addition there are a transverse subbasal series of 



* Camponotus compressits, Fabr., vide Faun. Brit. Ind., Hymen optera, ii, 

 1903, p. 351. 



