between the segments slight. There are traces of two pale sub-dorsal lines and there 

 is a pale lateral line below the spiracles. The usual extensile organs on the twelfth 

 segment short. This larva has no distinctive markings by which it can be easily 

 recognised, it is always a very plainly coloured and marked insect ; the ant which 

 attends it betrays its presence ; the ant has been identified by Dr. A. Forel as 

 Campanotus ruhripes, Drury, sub-species, compressus, Fabricius. 



Pupa. — Green of the usual lycsenid shape, with a dorsal and lateral series of some- 

 what obscure conjoined brownish spots on the upperside. Attached to the underside 

 of the leaves of the food-plant in the usual manner (de Nice'ville). 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, South China. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Betham from Bombay, 

 by Watson from Chin Lushai, by de Rhe-Philipe from Lucknow, by Nurse from Kutch, 

 by Moore from Bengal and Ceylon, by Wood-Mason and de Niceville from Cachar ; we 

 took it at Quetta, Poona and Mhow, and have received it from the Khasia Hills. It is 

 also in the B. M. from Calcutta, Maulmein, Durbunga, HongJiong, Tonkin and 

 Formosa. 



CHILADES TROCHILUS. 



Plate 639, figs. 1, (J, la, 9 , lb, <J . 



Lycsena troehilus, Freyer, Neue Beitr. Schmett. v. p. 98, pi. 440, fig 1 (1844). Herrich-Schaffer, 

 Schmett. Eur. i. p. 128, pi. 48, figs. 224, 225, <? , pi. 49, fig. 226, ? (1844). Wallengren, 

 Kongl. Sv. vet-akad. Handl. Lep. Caflfr. 2iid series, ii. p. 41 (1857). Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust. ii. 

 p. 256 (1866). Lang, Butt, of Eur. p. 103, pi. 22, fig. 7 (1884). Trimen, South Afr. Butt. ii. 

 p. 52 (1887). 



Pohjommatus troehilus, Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 99 (1862). 



Pleheius troehilus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1996, p. 368. 



Zizera troehilus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 484. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 341 ; id. 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 273. 



Chilades troeMhis, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 91 (1890). de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1890, p. 385. Watson, id. 1891, p. 44. Betham, id. p. 177. Watson, id. 1897, p. 658. 

 Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 379. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 487. Leslie and 

 Evans, id. 1903, p. 673. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 367 (1907). 



Lycsena parva, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 526, pi. 10, fig. 1. 



Lyceena gnoma, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1876, p. 159, pi. 7, fig. 1. 



Imago. —Male. Upperside lavender-blue, varying much in tint, from pale lavender 

 to brownish-blue ; both wings with outer marginal, very fine brown line. Hindwiixj 

 with three prominent sub-marginal black spots near the anal angle, with a series of very 

 ill-defined pale spots in continuation up the margin, the three black spots with broad 

 orange-ochreous lunules attached to their inner sides ; and close to these runs a series 

 of minute whitish spots. Marginal line finely brown, with a fine white line on its 

 inner side. Cilia white with a basal brown band. Underside grey, all the markings 

 VOL. VII. 2 N 



