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b*. Larva with the star-shaped, minute 

 bodies sessile. 



a''. Larva with clothing of minute, fine, 

 conical, black hairs from black star- 

 bases ; some golden similar ones also. J amides bochus. 

 ¥. Larva clothed with sessile, white 

 stars bearing a brown bristle. 

 a®. Larva having some broad, white, 



minute hairs in addition . . . , Jamides elpis. 



b''. Larva having some minute ring- 

 spots besides, white, surrounded 

 by a brown band . . . . . . Zizera malia ? 



c\ Larva with a fringe of marginal hairs only 

 round the front and anal segments. 



a. Larva with a clothing of small, simple, 

 bifurcated hairs obscured by the cottony 



covering of scale-insects . . . . . . Spalgis, epius. 



b. Larva with covering otherwise. 



a. Larva with the clothing without star- 

 shaped bodies. 



a. Larva with sparse covering of minute, 



erect, thick -based hairs . . . . Azanus ubaldus. 



b. Larva with covering of appressed 

 hairs ; not erect. 



a. Larva with appressed, broad, trans- 

 lucent-white hairs . . . . . . Azanus uranus. 



h. Larva with covering of appressed, 

 light, thick-bases hairs . . . . Lycaenesthes lycue- 



b. Larva with clothing of star-shaped nina. 

 minute tubercles each bearing a central 

 minute hair. 



a. Larva having the central hair erect, 

 bristle-like it and the stars red ; also 



simple, shiny, yellow-white stars . . Nacaduba nova, Feld. 



=^ardates, Moore. 



b. Larva having the central hair of stars 

 bent back, parallel or nearly so to 

 body-surface. 



a. Larva with the central hair of 

 star with a flat, disc-like, pear- 

 shaped, white appendage from its 

 tip and at right angles to it, parallel 



to body-surface . . . . . . Nacaduba atrata. 



b. Larva with the central hair of star 

 blunt, golden, bent back against 



body surface . . . . . . . . Lyecenopsis puspa. 



rZ\ Larva with no marginal fringe longer than 

 the rest of the clothing of body. 

 a. Larva with stars in the clothing. 



a. Larva with the clothing of minute, 

 white, star-shaped tubercles from the 

 centre of each of which grows a small, 

 colourless hair which is bent down ; 

 also conical tubercles with similar, erect 

 hair . . . . . . . . . . . . Nacaduba plumbeomi- 



