;U LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



tlie anal augle, a submarginal series of similar spots, increasing in size liinclwards, anal 

 lobe black, a linear white mark, and a curved streak of metallic blue scales above it, 

 a black spot in the first interspace, ringed with orange. 



Female. Upperside fulvous-brown. Forewing with some fulvous suffusion below 

 the median A-ein, varying in extent in different examples. Hindwing with the 

 abdominal fold pale, in some examples without any markings, in some the entire wing is 

 tinted with fulvous, and sometimes there are indications of a series of fulvous sub- 

 marginal spots. Underside as in the male, the ground colour often much paler. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-^ to ly^g, $ ly\ to 2 inches. 



Larva, when full fed and extended in walking, 0*9 of an inch in length ; ground 

 colour dull ochreuus, blotched with leaden-black, the surface of all the segments smooth 

 and shining, the constrictions between the segments well-marked, each segment with 

 a shallow dorsal pit, a sub-dorsal pit on each side, and a lateral pit which bears the 

 deep black spiracles ; the entire lateral edge of the larva furnished with rather long, 

 bristly hairs ; the larva is of the usual lycgenid shape, the head small and entirely 

 retractile into the second segment, dull oshreous, marked with leaden-black as are 

 the segments ; the body increasing in width to the fourth segment, then gradually 

 decreasing to the anal segment, the larva is rather depressed, broader than high, the 

 three anal segments are scutate, the shield being used to block up the entrance to 

 the fruit on which the larva feeds ; the second and third segments are brighter 

 ochreous than the rest, the Ijlaekish markings more sparse, wholly absent on the 

 anterior portion of the second segment. I can find no trace whatever of the special 

 organs found on many Lycsenidse larvae which are affected by ants. Feeds on the 

 fruit of the pomegranate. 



Pupa 0*55 of an inch in length, light reddish-brown speckled with black in no 

 decided pattern, the surface rather rough above and covered sparsely with short 

 stout white bristles, below quite smooth, of a lighter colour, and without the black 

 speckles and bristles ; shape everywhere rounded except anteriorly, where the head is 

 anteriorly bounded by a sharp ridge, the thorax very slightly humped, the anal 

 segment depressed, pointed. Described from specimens sent to me by J\Ir. P. "W. 

 ]\Iackinnon, and obtained hy him at 4,000 feet elevation below Masuri. (de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, Andamans, Nikobars, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, 

 Celebes, Nias. 



A common species, with a very rapid flight. The larva and the pupa are figured from 

 Davidson's original drawings. 



DEUDORIX DIARA. 



Plate 712, figs. 1, <?, la, ?, lb, i. 



Deitdurix (Itara, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1896, p. 3-57. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. .Soc. 1S9G, 

 p. 681, pi. 31, fig. U, J . 



