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anteriorly rounded, third, fourth and fifth slightly progressively wider, thence slightly 

 tapering to the anal segment, which is about sub-equal in width to the third and 

 rounded posteriorly ; the divisions between the segments fairly well marked ; the 

 entire upper surface widely pitted throughout, covered with minute tubercles bearing 

 very short, bristly hairs, the latter much longer on the lateral edge of the body ; 

 spiracles inconspicuous, concolorous ; head small, entirely retracted beueath the second 

 segment, anteriorly and laterally black, smooth, shining, posteriorly ochreous, the 

 ochreous colour extending on to the middle of the head in a square figure, the entire 

 head sparsely covered with rather long, white hairs ; the body is practically unmarked, 

 there being only a slightly darker dorsal line, the under surface is pale green. Mr. Mac- 

 kinnon describes the larva as possessing " a yellow dorsal stripe, wdde on the second 

 segment, narrower to sixth, from thence to anal segment narrow." Feeds on the 

 walnut. 



Pupa, of the usual Lycsenid shape, nearly cylindrical, head rounded, thorax very 

 slightly humped and constricted posteriorly, abdomen ending in a blunt point ; colora- 

 tion dark reddish-brown, sparsely covered above with short hairs. 



The above description has been drawn up from numerous specimens sent me in 

 spirit, and a few alive, and a single live pupa, by Mr. P. W. Mackinnon of 

 Masuri. He informs me that the larvse are not attended by ants, though he has 

 watched them carefully for many days ; and this is probably correct, as I can find 

 no trace with a strong magnifying glass of the special organs afi'ected by ants, nor can 

 I, by pressure, make the live larvae extend those often found on the twelfth segment, 

 (de Niceville.) 



Egg. — de Niceville gives the following note received from Wood-Mason on a cluster 

 of eggs of this butterfly sent him by P. W. Mackinnon from Masuri for examination : — 

 " The abdomen bears at its extremity a huge, smoothly convex seminal mass nearly as 

 large as the thorax. This mass is made up of innumerable modified scales which are so 

 arranged and so closely packed together that their united free ends form a smoothly 

 dead, whitey-brown, solid-looking velvety surface. The scales are whitey-brown in their 

 apical half, black in their setiform basal half A number of them is attached by the 

 black end fanwise nearly all round the oval pole of each egg, so as to conceal all except 

 a small (less than a fourth) part of it. The eggs are attached to the surface of the 

 walnut twigs in elongated masses, consisting of five longitudinal rows, which appear to 

 be covered with quincuncially-arranged imbricated scales throughout, except at one 

 end, where a portion of one egg is left exposed. A study of an egg mass shows that 

 the first four or five eggs are laid in a line transverse to the long axis of the completed 

 mass, and so that their fan sides are turned away from, and their exposed sides turned 

 towards, the end of the insect's body, then four or five more are added, so that their 

 fans cover the exposed portions of the first row, and so on until the mass is finished, 



