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id. 1898, p. 380. Aitken aad Comber, id. 1903 (vol. xv.), p. 47. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, 

 id. 1896, p. 374. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 359 (1907). 



Lycsena pygmeea, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xix. p. 163, pi. 7, fig. 3 (1876). 



Zizera pygmsea, Mooi-e, Lap. Ceylon, i. p. 79, pi. 35, figs. 5, 5a, ^ (1881); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, 

 p. 245. Butler, id. 1883, p. 149. Swinhoe, id. 1884, p. 507, 1885, p. 132, and 1886, p. 427. 

 Moove, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. xxi. p. 30 (1886). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1886, p. 133. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 454 (wood-cut), ^ (1886). Watson, Journ. Bo. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-blue, with bright reflections in certain 

 lights ; a fine black costal line on the forewing, and thicker marginal black line on 

 both wings, with a sub-terminal narrow, shaded, brownish band. Cilia white, with 

 some pale brownish marks on the forewing. Underside grey, markings black, edged 

 with white. Forewing with a lunular mark at the end of the cell, a whorl of small 

 black spots, commencing near the costa at its middle, another above the cell mark, two 

 close together, and then curving round and across the disc in a regular row, the discal 

 spots being more or less oblique, the second from the hinder margin more inwards 

 than the others. Ilindwing with three sub-basal spots, a lunular mark at the end of 

 the cell and a complete discal curve of small spots, the second from the upper end and 

 the third from the lower end more inward than the others. Cilia white, grey at the 

 base and at the tips. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish 

 above, greyish-white beneath. 



Female. Upperside brown, marginal lines black. Underside similar to that of 

 the male, the ground colour generally a little darker and the markings more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ /q inch. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, t, 2d, ?). 



Male. Upperside of a paler blue, much paler and more violet in colour ; costa] 

 line of forewing and marginal line of both wings very finely black. Underside white, 

 the markings very minute. 



Female. Upperside darker than the male, shaded with brown. Underside 

 slightly darker, with the markings a little more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ '^ to to -^ inch. 



Larva. — Fed on the flowers of Nelsonia ; of the usual woodlouse form, but 

 narrower than Lysimon; segments well marked and covered with dense black bristles; 

 colour transparent green, with a sub-dorsal white stripe and a red dorsal blotch on each 

 segment. 



Pupa. — Green, very slender, thickest in the centre, anal end very narrow, rounded ; 

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