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"We give figures of the larva and pupa in the fruit of Randia dumetorum, from 

 drawings kindly supplied by Mr. Davidson. 



VIRACHOLA SIMILIS. 



Plate 720, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, ^ . 



Deudorix similis, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 18, pi. 8, figs. 22, 23, $ (1863). 



Virachola siynilis, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 482, frontispiece, fig. 127, 9 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Forewing with the wdiole of the wing deep 

 black except a small patch below the basal half of the median vein, which is blue, 

 narrowly margined with black on the hinder margin. Hindwing with the costal space 

 and abdominal fdd blackish-grey, all the rest of the wing black except for a small patch 

 of blue in the middle of the wing, divided by the veins 2, 3 and 4 ; anal lobe black, 

 with a dull orange-red spot on its upper inner side and some whitish scales above it. 

 Cilia of both wings black. Underside pale chocolate-grey, markings rufous banded 

 with black on each side. Forewing with an oval black spot in the cell, a squarish spot 

 at the end ; a discal series of six spots, the upper three conjoined and outwardly 

 oblique from the costa, the next three slightly separated from each other, not quite so 

 oblique, the upper one about half way between the lowest of the upper three and the 

 discoidal spot; a sub-marginal series of disconnected small paler spots. HuuUouvj 

 with a square sub-basal spot, lined with black on each side, below the costal vein, a 

 discal band of spots placed much as in V. perse, the upper two separated from each 

 other, the hinder curve of the band, which is outwardly edged with white, ending in a 

 black spot on the middle of the abdominal margin ; a sub-marginal series of pale spots ; 

 anal lobe black, with a white linear mark on it, and a pale blue streak outwardly lined 

 with black above it ; a black spot in the first interspace, a black spot, with dark blue 

 scales on it, between them, a white anteciliary line which becomes obsolete upwards. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white, club with an orange-red tip ; frons greyish-white, 

 with a brown medial stripe ; head and body black above, grey beneath, abdomen with 

 a whitish spot below, near its base. 



Female. Upperside paler blue. Forewing with the costa broadly, the outer 

 margin more broadly black. Hindwing with the costa and outer margin less 

 broadly black, the abdominal fold pale brown, anal lobe black, with a dull ochreous line, 

 outwardly edged with a line of metallic blue-green scales. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1 j§g, $ 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Assam, Andamans. 



Distribution. — The type, a female in the B. M., is lal)elled East Indies ; we have 

 received two males from our native collector from the Jaintia Hills ; recorded by 

 de Niceville from the Andamans. 



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