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pale, somewhat whitish tinged with blue-grey. Ilindwing with a very broad, nearly 

 black costal border, occupying a third of the wing space, curving round the apex and 

 gradually narrowing hindwards, a black linear mark at the end of the cell, a suffused 

 whitish streak beyond it, and the rest of the wing pale coloured as in the forewing, but 

 a little darker than it is in that wing. Underside like the male. Antennae black, 

 ochreous at apex of club ; head and body brown above, paler beneath ; palpi and thorax 

 greyish beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1^^ inches. 



Larva. — Carnivorous, covered with minute dark bristles and furnished with a lateral 

 fringe of hairs. Moore figured a larva and pupa in Lep. Ceylon (plate 34, fig. lb, larva 

 and pupa) of Rathonda amor, Fabricius, by mistake (Moore's notes). This information 

 was given him by E. E. Green, of Ceylon. Green states that the real larvae are dull 

 olive-green above, with numerous minute dark bristles and a lateral fringe of dark 

 brown hairs, beneath pale green, slightly suffused with pink on anterior segments ; it 

 feeds on Dactylopius adonidum (the mealy bug of planters), and partially covers and 

 conceals itself with the mealy secretion from the DactyluiJius. 



Pupa. — Various shades of brown, wing cases pale. E. H. Aitken confirms this in 

 a very interesting paper in the Journal of the Bombay Nat. Hist. Society, 1894, 

 p. 485 ; he states that he found the larvae covered with the white, woolly secretion of 

 the mealy bug ; he brushed this off, and found that they were of the woodlouse form 

 so common among the larvae of the Lycaenidae ; of a greenish-brown colour, with a 

 few hairs scattered over the back, and a fringe of bristles running along the side and 

 round the front, where the second segment conceals the head ; with this fringe he saw 

 them shovel a quantity of the white stuff on to their backs, and clothe their nakedness 

 after he had denuded them. He says, " Watching them -with a lens, I soon saw that 

 they were feeding among the mealy bugs ; they would pass over the larger individuals 

 and bury their heads in the downy covering of a little one, and though I could not say 

 I actually saw that they devoured it, I was quite satisfied that this was what they did." 



We represent on Plate 628 copies of Aitken's figures of the pupa, slightly enlarged 

 and also highly magnified. W. J. Holland, in Psyche, vi. p. 201, pi. 4 (1892), published 

 a similar drawing of the pupa of Spalgis s-signata, Holland, from Africa, exhibiting 

 when magnified this extraordinary resemblance to the face of an ape or chimpanzee. 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, Davidson from Karwar, 

 Aitken from Bombay, de Niceville from Calcutta, Burma and Ceylon ; it is in our 

 collection from Orissa and the Khasia Hills ; it is in the B. M. also from Sikkim, 

 Bhutan, Bhamo, Eangoon, and Penang. 



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