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Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, ?, le, $). 



Male. Upperside similar to the Wet-season form. Underside. Forewhig with 

 the inner markings similar, the two outer bands composed of spots, those nearest the 

 margin being small and well separated from each other. Rindwing with all the bands 

 and markings composed of well separated spots. 



Female. Upperside with the general colour much paler, the upper disc of fore- 

 wing broadly white, in some examples the ground colour of the outer half of the inner 

 space is all white, and the hindwing is also more or less white on the outer portion, the 

 base of both wings with blue iridescent scales. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 inch. 



Extreme Dry-season Brood (Figs. If, $, Ig, ?, Ih, $). 



Male and Female. Upperside as in the other forms. Underside with the outer 

 markings of the forewing and all the markings of the hindwing obsolescent, in some 

 examples the markings of the hindwing are almost obliterated. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? i% to ^ inch. 



Egg. — Pale apple-green with porcelain-white ridges and tubercles, the ridges 

 arranged in lines parallel to or concentric with the equator, the tubercles 

 arranged meridionally in curved lines, so that the tubercles, when the egg is viewed 

 from above, form a figure like a star of many rays all curved similarly and in the same 

 direction. The tubercles appear very conspicuous under a microscope, and are blunt 

 conical, in size they are equal in diameter about to the intervals between them. The 

 egg is very much flattened and with a wide depression at its apex, it has in fact much 

 the proportions of an Echinoid of the genus Diadeina. 



Larva. — Just half an inch in length, when full-grown, much flattened, the head 

 pale ochreous and completely hidden under the second segment, which is somewhat 

 wide, the third and fourth segments progressively a little wider, whence the body very 

 gradually tapers to the last segment, which is about as wide as the second. Colour 

 pale green, the whole upper surface covered with a shagreening of small white tubercles, 

 which under a magnifying glass give it a frosted appearance ; along the lateral edge of 

 the body and round the anal segment there are numerous somewhat long whitish 

 hairs. From the third to the anal segment there is a somewhat broad (slightly 

 decreasing in width posteriorly) yellowish-green dorsal stripe, which bears a red stripe 

 in its middle decreasingly on the first four segments on which it appears ; in some 

 specimens the dorsal stripe is marked with reddish on both sides, which colour is very 

 conspicuous on the twelfth and thirteenth segments. There is also a sub-dorsal series 

 of small spots from the third to the eleventh segments inclusive, which are quite 

 inconspicuous in some specimens. The extensile organs on the twelfth segment are 



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