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shields and the soft parts of the body, hut chiefly they excite or irritate the larva by 

 touching the tubulures with antennae and forelegs, till the larva puts forth the filaments 

 from the tubes, and the ants then seem to lick up some moisture left by the filaments 

 on the edges of the openings ; the larvae pupate in a deserted leaf-nest of the ants ; 

 the nests used for pupation always seem quite new. 



Pupa dark shiny brown and yellow-brown, the tip of the abdomen blunt and 

 rounded, and on the underside is a roughened sub-circular patch, furnished with 

 microscopic bristles, which aid the adhesion of the silk by which the pupa is afiixed to 

 one of the walls of the leaf nest ; there is no girdle round the middle, the tubulures of 

 the larva are represented by two slight scars in the pupa. 



The above are extracts from Kershaw's very interesting description of the life 

 history of this species ; fortunately he figured the butterfly on the same plate with 

 the larva and pupa, thus enabling us to ascertain the species he was referring to. The 

 description of this species by one who has so carefully studied its life history establishes 

 the fact that it is a form diiferiug in many respects from A. lohita, with which it has 

 been confused by so many authors ; his description of the larva and pupa, though in 

 general agreement with the description of the larva and pupa of A. lohita by Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitken, differs materially in many respects, and establishes its distinction from 

 that form. 



Habitat. — An damans, Ceylon, S. China. 



Described and figured from a pair in our collection from Port Blair ; the figures 

 of the larva and pupa are copies of Kershaw's figures. 



APHNJIUS MINIMA. 

 Plate 738, figs. 4, (J , 4a, <J . 

 Spindaais minima, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1901, p. 239. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyish-blue, with some of the bands on the underside 

 slightly visible through the wings, marginal line brown, cilia white ; a yellow anal 

 patch on the hindwing with two rather large black spots, slightly touched with metallic 

 blue scales ; tails black, tipped with white. Underside with the ground colour pinkish- 

 whitish-grey ; bands indicated by their brown linear edgings, with brown spots inside 

 them, and a few silvery scales. Forewing with the hinder marginal space grey, limited 

 by the median vein and the middle of the interno-median interspace ; a spot inside the 

 cell, followed by five bands close together, all commencing on the costa and terminating 

 on the upper edge of the grey space, except the third which ends below vein 5, and the 

 fourth which ends above vein 3, a sub-marginal line of disconnected linear marks. 

 Hindwing with a narrow basal band, ante-medial, medial and post-medial bands, the 



