406 IXCJES1DJE. 



markings. The fasciae on the underside are often so disjointed 

 that it becomes difficult to trace their connections or course. 



Larva. "When full-fed just half an inch in length, of a 

 dull reddish- green colour, thickly shagreened with minute white 

 tubercles, scarcely, if at all, hairy ; the head pale ochraceous, entirely 

 hidden beneath the second segment ; the segments increasing in 

 width to about the fifth, the two anal segments slightly decreasing 

 and above flattened, especially the thirteenth ; the erectile organs 

 very small ; a dorsal pulsating line, somewhat darker than the rest 

 of the body ; a subdorsal series of pale green oblique streaks, 

 one on each segment on each side from the third to the eleventh 

 segment inclusive ; no other conspicuous markings. Dr. Forel has 

 identified the ant that attends the larva in Calcutta, as Camponotus 

 mitis, Smith (= bacchus, Sm. = ventralis, Sm.). Dr. G. King 

 identifies the plant on which the larva feeds in Calcutta as Heynea 

 trijuga, Roxburgh." (de Niceville.) 



Pupa. " Of the usual Lycaenid shape, quite smooth, neither 

 hairy nor pitted, pale ochreous greenish, the upper portions of 

 the abdominal segments darker, covered throughout with coarse, 

 rounded, blackish spots placed irregularly ; a dorsal and a subdorsal 

 series of similar but larger spots or blotches placed regularly. 

 Head bluntly rounded, thorax slightly humped and constricted 

 posteriorly, end of the abdomen rounded." (de Niceville.} 



Race kinkurka, Felder. An insular form that has varied con- 

 siderably and has developed into a well-marked race (fig. 89 a). $ $ 

 differ from the typical form as follows : d . Upperside : very much 

 paler, almost silvery white. Fore wing : shaded very slightly with 

 fuscous towards the apex; postdiscal and subterminal diffuse dusky 

 bands within the anticiliary black line ; cilia brown, whitish along 

 the tips and at the tornal angle. Hind wing : an anticiliary black 

 line and a subterminal series of black spots as in the typical form, 

 but the latter superposed on well-marked, larger, slightly bluish- 

 white spots that fill the apices of the interspaces ; as in celeno, 

 these black spots become faint anteriorly ; inwardly the series of 

 large bluish-white background spots is bounded by a well-marked, 

 lunular, broad, dusky band ; cilia white. Underside : ground-colour 

 very much paler than in the typical form, a very pale silvery grey, 

 almost white ; markings on both fore and hind wings as in celeno, 

 but in most specimens the transverse white fasciae are slightly 

 broader proportionately and the subterminal two and terminal 

 fasciae narrowly connected by linear extensions of white along the 

 veins ; tail black tipped with white. Antennas, head, thorax and 

 abdomen as in the typical form but the thorax and abdomen on 

 the upperside paler. The sexes are very much more alike than in 

 the typical form. $ . Only differs from the c? in the ground-colour 

 which is paler, and in the apex of the fore wing on the upperside, 

 which is shaded to a varying extent and degree with diffuse fuscous 

 black. 



Exp. rf $ 28-36 mm. (MO-1-40"). 



Hab. The Nicobars. 



