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portions darker, a sul)-inarginal series of large conjoined orange lunules, their points 

 touching the margin and enclosing round blackish spots ; these lunules do not, however, 

 generally extend higher up than the fifth or sixth interspaces, and have sometimes 

 one or two small orange sub-marginal spots in continuation ; and there is also a fine, 

 more or less disconnected, pale blue line inside the black terminal line ; tail black, 

 tipped with white. Cilia white, with blackish patches. Underside dark ochreous-grey. 

 Forewing with an orange sub-marginal band, narrowing somewhat upwards, edged 

 inwardly by a white, thin, lunular band which is edged on both sides with black, and 

 outwardly by a series of black angulated spots outwardly edged by a white line 

 adjoining the terminal black line ; the lower part of the orange band has also some 

 black suffusion. Hindwing with a large black spot ringed with white below the costa 

 one-third from the l)ase, and a similar smaller spot below it, in the second interspace ; 

 a broad sub-marginal band, twice as broad as that in the forewing without any black 

 suffusion at its lower end, inwardly edged by a thin white band, which has a black line 

 on its inner side and black long pointed angles on its outer side, running across the 

 orange band to the outer series of black spots, the white line and terminal black line as 

 on the forewing. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male, but not shining, the orange sub- 

 marginal lunular band of the hindwing with the lunules more acute and extended up 

 to the apex of the hindwing and continued up the forewing in the form of short thick 

 lunular orange marks to the third or fourth interspace. Underside as in the male. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body brown above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? Ittt ^^ l-i% inches. 



Larva. — When about half-grown pale yellowish-green, the whole surface thickly 

 shagreened and covered with rather long brownish bristly hairs, which are longer on 

 the anterior and posterior segments and along the sides than elsewhere ; there is a 

 narrow dark dorsal line, but no other markings. In shape the larva is about as high 

 as broad, of very nearly equal breadth throughout, hardly tapering at either end, the 

 fourth segment rather wider than the rest, the constrictions between the segments 

 slight. The full-fed larva is just half an inch in length when walking, of the usual 

 lycsenid shape, flattened, broader than high, both ends rounded ; the segments (except 

 the second and last) of almost equal breadth, the constrictions lietween the segments 

 shallow, the whole larva pale dirty greenish mottled with dirty dull crimson, the narrow 

 dull dorsal line also dull crimson, that being the only conspicuous marking possessed 

 by the animal ; the whole surface is covered with minute whitish dots, also with short 

 fine brownish hairs, which are placed more thickly at the sides and on the posterior 

 segment of the larva ; head entirely hidden as usual under the second segment, pale 

 greenish, anteriorly becoming rather dark ; all the legs also pale greenish. Feeds on a 

 species of sorrel. 



