374 LYCJENID^E. 



with white; head, thorax and abdomen purplish brown. $ . Upper- 

 side : brown, the bases of the wings glossed with pale violet-blue 

 on the fore wing, in some specimens extended for two-thirds the 

 length of the wing but always more or less of a broad margin of the 

 ground-colour is left along the costa, a still broader margin along 

 the termen and a narrow edging along the dorsum ; on the hind 

 wing the blue gloss rarely extends further than the basal third. 

 Both fore and hind wings with slender anticiliary black lines, that 

 on the hind wing posteriorly is inwardly margined with a thread 

 of white, on the inner side of which again and touching it are three 

 or four conical or triangular small black spots in the interspaces. 

 Cilia of both wings pale brown. Underside : ground-colour slightly 

 paler, markings similar. Antennae blackish brown, the shafts 

 speckled with white as in the d ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown; beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen paler brown. 

 Exp. 8 $ 29-35 mm. (1-14-1-34"). 



Hob. Within our limits, Eastern India : Sikhim, Bengal, Orissa ; 

 Western India : Karwar ; Assam ; Burma ; Teriasserim ; the 

 Andamans ; extending into the Malayan Subregion as far as New- 

 Guinea. 



Specimens from the Andamans differ constantly in the darker 

 shade of the purplish-blue above and on the underside by the 

 narrowness of the transverse discal band on the fore wing, which is 

 also more irregular and catenulate in form, the posterior link or 

 spot not in line with the others. 



Larva. " When full-fed '62 of an inch in length, somewhat dark 

 green in colour (of a darker shade than mostLycaanid larvse), smooth 

 and shining, the whole surface covered with minute pits to be seen 

 only under a strong magnifying-glass. The head is very small 

 and retractile as usual and of a pale green colour ; the second 

 segment is unmarked, the third to sixth segments inclusive have 

 some obscure reddish-brown dorsal blotches, the three following 

 segments are unmarked, the tenth to twelfth segments have some- 

 what similar blotches to those on the third to the sixth segments, 

 but they are more distinct and and darker in shade. There is a 

 pale yellow lateral line just above the legs. All the segments are 

 irregularly and broadly pitted at the sides ; these pits seem to 

 assume more or less the form of a longitudinal subdorsal depression, 

 below which to the lateral line the colour of the insect is slightly 

 paler. The whole larva is much depressed, somewhat wider than 

 high and seems to gradually increase in breadth to the tenth 

 segment, the last segment is almost as broad and rounded. The 

 larva varies greatly in colour and markings, some being pale green 

 throughout and unmarked, others again are reddish brown through- 

 out. It ^ feeds in Calcutta 011 Neplielium litchi, Lamb., Cassia 

 fistula, Linn., and Heynea trijuc/a, Koxb., and not improbably, as it 

 feeds on so many bushes, it will eat others. Dr. Forel identifies 

 the ant which attends the larva as (Ecophylla smaragdina, Fabr., 

 the large red and green ant which makes immense nests of growing 

 leaves in trees." (de Niceville.') 



