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indicated. Female very similar to the male but can be distinguished as 

 follows : — upperside : forewing : orange patch enclosed within the black, 

 apical area narrower ; a small, black spot in the middle of interspace 1 and 

 another in interspace 3 (there may be an indication of one in interspace 2 

 also). Hindwing : the terminal spots slightly larger. Underside : apex of 

 fore and whole surface of hindwing suffused lightly or, in specimens from 

 very dry localities, heavily with ochraceous. Forewing : spots in interspaces 

 1 and 3 as on upperside. Hindwing: a curved, almost complete, discal series- 

 of fuscous spots ; otherwise as in the male. In both sexes the antennae vary 

 from white to pale brownish ; head, thorax and abdomen black, the head and 

 thorax with short, greyish-brown hairs ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen white. Expanse 30-44 mm. 



^9ff- — Longer than broad, cylindrical for its basal frds, the apical third 

 conical, somewhat narrowly truncated ; there are 8 longitudinal ridges which 

 are well defined, rounded in section, transversely finely striated running 

 from base to apex ; the concave intervals also finely striated cross-ways, 

 except in the very centre, narrowly ; the ridges all end abruptly round the 

 apex showing little sign of teeth. Surface shiny. Colour when laid yellow- 

 ish changing later on to reddish caused by j)rofuse blotching. L: 1 mm. ; 

 B : 0'5 mm. 



Larva. — The larva is like that of Terias hecabe in facies but has the 

 anal segment shortly but obscurely bifid-knobbed, the hinder margin 

 of the flap being distinctly indented and the dorsum depressed between 

 the knobs ; body cylindrical, narrowing in anal segments and, slightly, in 2 

 and 1, the colouration is also different. Segment 2 is slightly broader than 

 the head. The head is roundish, the clypeus large and curvilinear-trian- 

 gular ; the surface is covered with minute, light-coloured tubercles, each 

 bearing a short, stiff, dark hair ; the colour is glaucous green, the eyes are 

 brown, the labrum watery green, the antennge green. The surface of the 

 body is slightly shiny, rather coarsely transversely and paralleledly lined 

 and set all over with minute tubercles, each tubercle bearing an erect, short, 

 black or dark hair ; among these are the usual subdorsal, dorsolateral 

 supraspiracular (slightly behind the spiracle) and subspiracular tubercles, 

 slightly larger than the rest and bearing, each, a longer hair from the point 

 of which exudes, sometimes, a drop of clear liquid ; all the tubercles are 

 greenish bluish-white in colour. The spiracles are small, slightly prominent, 

 oval shining, light, watery, green ; on the band. The colour of the larva, 

 with a broad, white, spiracular band touched with orange above each spiracle 

 and bordered below by a slightly less broad, purplish-chocolate band, both 

 bands reaching the whole length of the body ; ventrum green ; legs and pro- 

 leg green. L : 19mm. ; B : 3mm. 



Pupa. — The j)upa is also of the type of that of Terias liecahe. It has a 

 slightly turned up snout and a distinctly bifid cremastral extremity : the 

 points being very bluntly rounded v/ith a considerable depression between 

 them. There is a slight lateral constriction behind the thorax. The body 

 surface is somewhat granular on the wings, smooth elsewhere though slightly 

 aciculate-lined under the lens. The spiracles of segment 2 are indicated 

 by a longly oval surface facing somewhat backwards, formed by the raising 

 of the hinder margin of segment 2 ; the other spiracles are oval, slightly 

 raised, of the tisual size, and are white in coloiir. The colour of the pupa is 

 a pinkish bone-colour with a strongly green-sepia band above the spiracular 

 line from segment 6/7 to segment 13 ; a similarly coloured dorsal band from 

 head to same segment ; the abdomen is streaked with three similar, light- 

 coloured bands on each side longitudinally, these bands interrupted narrow- 

 ly at the segment margins ; the wings have the veins thinly white with a. 

 green-sepia splash down the middle of each wing ; the dorsum is, besides 



