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fine white hairs as long as the processes in the subspiracular line, these 

 subspiracular spines being one-fourth as long again as the ones beneath 

 that line ; besides these processes there are also the following : — a dorsal, 

 dorso- lateral, and supra-spiracular process on segments 5 to 11 ; on seg- 

 ments 3 and 1 a dorso-lateral and supra-spiracular process ; on segments 

 13 and 14 a dorso-lateral process ; on segment J 2 two dorsal processes, 

 one in front of the other, as well as a dorso-lateral and supra-spiracular 

 process ; all these processes from the subspiracular ones upwards are 

 of the same length, shiny blackish in colour, set with two whorls of 

 dark yellow-brown spinelets nearly as long as the processes ; the pro- 

 cesses are just under 2 mm. in length ; segment 2 has ten simple, 

 slightly- curved, spinous hairs along the front margin, black and rather 

 long; the surface of the body is covered besides, (and herein lies its 

 difference from other larvae of Precis), with 1 mm. long fine pure white 

 hairs, each hair springing from a minute circular pure white tubercle ; 

 a narrow dorsal line and the whole of the dorsum of segment 3 have no 

 white hairs. The anal flap is nearly semicircular in outline and 

 somewhat thickened at the extremity, where it is yellow- ochreous in 

 colour. The spiracles are oval, black, with shiny black borders. Head 

 rather small, squarish, with the vertex indented, giving an appearance 

 of being bilobed ; the vertex of each lobe bears a conical, shining, 

 ochreous tubercle surrounded by three or four small ones each bearing 

 a hair, the hair of the large tubercle always long and white ; another 

 small tubercle in the middle of each lobe : some stiff black hairs on the 

 upper part of the face, some soft white hairs about the base ; colour of 

 the head dark bronzy-blackish-brown, with a rather large triangular 

 black clypeus ; colourless labrum ; ochreous basal antennal joint, and 

 blackish second joint. Neck dull greenish-black. Colour of body velvety 

 black, looking, nnder the lens, slightly shiny greenish-black; the abdomen 

 lighter blackish ; a subspiracular band, sending a short shoot up and 

 forwards before each spiracle, legs and prolegs, all brownish-ochreous. 

 The whole larva appears frosted with white on account of the presence 

 of the small white hairs. Length 40 mm., breadth 5 mm. 



Pupa. The pupa is almost exactly the same shape as that of 

 Precis ahnana, Linnaeus, in every way ; it differs mainly in the colour, 

 which is a dull light brown throughout, with the front faces of the 

 tubercles slightly darker, and the hinder faces somewhat lighter, than 

 the colour of the body; the head-points, the apex of the thorax, and the 

 sides of the cremaster, dark brown ; the hinder half of segment 8 lighter 

 than the body; the apex of the thorax is more pointed than that of 

 P. ahnana, the apex being a conical point; the head-points are much 

 more pronounced, being conical ; the front slope from the apex of the 



