70 LEPIBOPTEBA INDICA. 



commencing a little inwards. Hindwing with a black sub-basal spot below the costa, 

 twin spots at the end of the cell, a discal band of conjoined spots, the third and fourth 

 a little outside the others, its lower part curving suddenly in towards the abdominal 

 margin below its middle ; anal lobe black, a small round black spot in the first 

 interspace ringed with ochreous. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with an 

 ochreous-red tip ; frons grey ; eyes ringed with white ; head and body black above, 

 grey beneath. 



Female. Upperside paler blue, without gloss. Forewing with broad costal and 

 outer marginal black borders, a white patch, sometimes tinged with ochreous beyond 

 the cell. Hindwing with the costal and outer marginal black borders broader than 

 ill the male, abdominal space clear of blackish suffusion, the fold blackish-grey, a white 

 anteciliary line from the anal lobe to vein 2. Underside paler than the male, markings 

 similarly disposed, but more defined. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-j-% to 1-^-q, $ 1^^ to 2^^ inches. 



Larva. — When full grown and fully extended is about • 9 of an inch in length, 

 sometimes even 1 ■ 1 inches long ; its general ground colour is rather deep flesh-colour 

 or pinky, more or less irregularly blotched with darker reddish-brown ; the whole 

 surface is smooth and shiny, thickly set with minute black hairs or bristles. The 

 divisions between the segments are fairly well marked, as each segment slopes 

 gradually upwards from before backwards, all the segments are very much wrinkled 

 and pitted, and each bears below the spiracles a small wart-like tubercle covered with 

 longish white bristles ; there is also a similar but smaller subdorsal series of tubercles 

 and bristles. The larva is of the usual lycaenid shape, the head smooth, pale, and 

 completely retractile into the second segment, the third segment the largest, whence 

 the remaining segments gradually decrease in width to the last. The two anal 

 segments are abruptly cut off or flattened from above (scutate), this round depressed 

 portion being largely used by the larva when at rest inside the fruit on which it feeds 

 to close the orifice in the fruit through which its evacuations are ejected. In some 

 specimens on the seventh and eighth segments in the middle of the back are two large 

 square yellowish-white marks, one on each segment, divided on the dorsal line by a 

 line of the ground colour. 



Pupa, also of the usual lycsenid shape, coloured very similarly to the larva, being 

 pinkish-brown blotched with darker brown or black, with a few short bristles at the 

 sides. The larva changes into pupa inside the fruit, and to protect itself spins a most 

 perfect trap-door furnished with an hinge on one side on the inside of the fruit, and 

 turns to a pupa with its head placed exactly opposite the trap-door. The trap-door 

 opens inwards, and I presume the imago on emerging draws the door towards itself 

 with its front legs, and thus makes an opening by which to emerge. I can find no 

 trace of the erectile tubercles on the twelfth or of the mouth-like opening on the 



