four white-encircled black spots and a similar subcostal spot in 

 middle of interspace 7. Antennae, head, thorax arid abdomen 

 brown, the shaft of the antennae speckled with white ; beneath : 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen white. . Upper and undersides : 

 ground-colour and markings as in the d 1 , but the latter larger and 

 more clearly denned ; 011 the hind wing the yellow crowning the 

 black spots on the tornal area on the upperside and surrounding 

 the same 011 the underside, wider and more prominent. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen as in the tf . 



Exp. rf $ 17-25 mm. (0-68-0-97"). 



Hal. Pound throughout our limits, but not at any great 

 elevation ; occurs also in South-eastern Europe ; in Africa, 

 Arabia and Central Asia ; extends through the Malayan Subregion 

 to Australia. 



Var. putli, Kollar, is the small Indian form which however, in 

 ground-colour and markings is identical with trochilus. 



Larva. " When full-grown a little over a quarter of an inch in 

 length, onisciform as usual ; the head very small, black and 

 shining, entirely hidden when at rest, being covered by the 

 second segment ; the colour of the body grass-green, with a dark 

 green dorsal line from the third to the twelfth segment; two 

 subdorsal series of short parallel streaks, each pair being divided 

 from the next by the segmental constriction, these streaks paler 

 than the ground-colour ; an almost pure white lateral line below 

 the spiracles, which is the most conspicuous of all the markings ; 

 the segmental constrictions rather deep ; the whole surface of the 

 body shagreened, being covered with very small whitish tubercles, 

 from which spring very fine short colourless hairs. The usual 

 extensile organ on the twelfth segment. Dr. George King, 

 Superintendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Sibpur, near 

 Calcutta, has identified its food-plant as Hdiotropium striyosum, 

 "Willd. Professor A. Forel identifies the ant as Pheidole quadri- 

 spinosa, Jerdon." (de Niceville.} 



Pupa. " About three-sixteenths of an inch in length, pale 

 green, of the usual Lycaenid shape, densely covered everywhere, 

 except on the wing-cases, with somewhat long white hairs.'' 

 (de Niceville?) 



Genus ORTHOMIELLA. 



Orthomiella, de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii, 1800, p. 1 25. 



Type, 0. pontis, Elwes, from Sikhim. 



Range. Sikhim ; China. 



c? $ . Fore wing : costa widely arched ; apex subacute, well- 

 marked but not produced ; termen convex ; tornus angulated : 

 dorsum straight, about three-fourths the length of the costa ; cell 

 ample, a little longer than half the length of the wing ; vein 7 

 from a little before apex of cell, upper discocellular therefore in 

 line with subcostal ; middle and lower dtscocellulars subequal, 



