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but ventrally, i. e. below the marginal flange above noted, but 

 with no trace of anything of the sort above it, each segment has 

 another single ridge or flange about one-third of the way in front 

 of each incision. The scars of prolegs are well-marked by large 

 areas into which these ribs do not intrude. 



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" The spiracles are more obvious than in the larva and occupy 

 a similarly dorsal position. The pupa is very smooth and polished, 

 at least thoracically ; the abdomen has very numerous almost 

 microscopic hair-points. 



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" The pupa inside lies quite free from any attachment to the 

 skin, but the ventral depression of the pupa is due to its having 

 to fit on the ventral aspect of the larval skin, which is raised 

 centrally by the head, legs, prolegs, &c. 



" The larval skin dehisces by cracking round the marginal crest 

 in front, by a crack across the front of the three ridges, i. e. between 

 third and fourth abdominal segments. The semicircular portion 

 thus marked off again divides longitudinally into two portions." 

 (T. A. Chapman, 1. c.) 



Imago. The perfect insect is as abnormal (for the Lyccenidce) 

 as is the larva and pupa. In appearance it is like a very large 

 skipper or moth. The head, thorax and abdomen are heavy and 

 massive, but the absence of a precostal vein in the hind wing of 

 both sexes, the shape of the antennae, and in the <$ the structure 

 of the fore leg are entirely Lycsenid. 



Genus LIPHYEA. 



Liphyra, Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, 1864, p. 31 ; de N. Butt. 

 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 489. 



Type, L. brassolis, Westwood, from Assam. 



Range. Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions. 



c? $ . Fore wing : costa arched ; apex subacute ; termen convex ; 

 tornus rounded ; dorsum sinuate, ciliated, about three-fourths the 

 length of the costa ; cell about half the length of the wing ; vein 6 

 out of 7 beyond apex of cell, upper discocellular therefore absent, 

 middle and* lower discocellulars subequal, vertical ; vein 7 ends 

 on termen well below apex of wing ; vein 8 out of 7, from, apical 

 half, ends on costa before apex of wing ; vein 9 out of 7 from just 

 before middle ; veins 10 and 11 free ; vein 12 terminates well beyond 

 end of cell on costa. Hind wing : irregularly pear-shaped ; costa 

 slightly but widely augulated near base, then straight to apex ; 

 termen strongly rounded, tornus well marked, produced into a lobe ; 

 dorsum long, slightly convex ; cell about half length of wing ; 

 middle discocellular short, concave, lower twice length of middle, 

 strongly oblique ; vein 1 a very short, ends before middle of 

 dorsum ; vein 3 from well before lower apex of cell ; vein 7 at base 



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