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Caterpillar at birth : The head is as broad as the body, or barely narrower 

 than the first thoracic segment ; frontal triangle large, more than half as high as 

 the head, nearly as broad at base as high. Body subcylindric, scarcely tapering 

 from in front backward, the first considerably larger than the other thoracic seg- 

 ments, furnished with rather shorter bristles than the rest of the body, few in num- 

 ber, and regularly disposed. The other segments have regularly disposed 

 appendages as follows : — A subdorsal series of high papilla? and long, tapering 

 hairs, as long as the width of the body, on the thoracic and first eight abdominal 

 segments, a little in advance of the middle ; a laterodorsal series of small papillae 

 with shorter hairs, on the same segments, centrally situated ; a laterostigmatal 

 series of high papillae with comparatively short truncate (but not clubbed) bristles, 

 on the first six abdominal segments, two to a segment, one anterior and a little 

 lower with slightly longer bristle, the other posterior and higher. There is also a 

 similar, but longer, infralateral bristle, anteriorly placed, on the third thoracic 

 segment ; and an infrastigmatal series of long hairs, three to a segment, of which 

 one is central, on a high papilla directly on the substigmatal fold, and the others 

 are on lower papillae, one a little lower and anterior, the third above it and 

 posterior. There are also series of hairless lenticles or annuli, as follows: — A 

 supralateral series on the thoracic and sixth and seventh abdominal segments, the 

 former large, the latter small ; a lateral series, large on the first eight abdominal 

 segments, a small, infralateral one on the fourth abdominal segment (and on all 

 the segments a small suprastigmatal series, and on the abdominal segments a small 

 infrastigmatal series ; these last I have been unable to verify since my notes were 

 made). All hairs and bristles are microscopically spiculed. 



Mature caterpillar : Head hardly more than one-tenth the width of the body. 

 Body longitudinally arched, more abruptly curved in front and behind, more 

 strongly in front than behind, but in the middle with a narrow dorsal field and 

 tectiform sides, the incisures deeply cut. On most of the segments there is a 

 subdorsal group of spiculiferous hairs, which in the earlier stages are sub-equal, 

 long, erect, and forward curving, but later are unequal, a single longer one curving 

 outward, the shorter ones erect. The crateriform annuli of the first stage continue 

 at least into the next ; full notes were not taken. The caterpillar differs from that 

 of Cyaniris (Celastrina) in the great breadth and flatness of the last abdominal 

 segment, and in the more lateral position of the caruncles of the eighth abdominal 

 segment. 



Chrysalis : Long and slender, nearly four times as long as broad, the sides, 

 viewed from above, parallel and straight from the base of the wings to their tip, 

 beyond which the abdomen tapers a very little and ends in a long elliptic curve. 

 Viewed laterally, the abdomen is highest at the third and fourth abdominal seg- 

 ments, and is very broadly and regularly arched ; and, although not high, the 

 upper part of the ninth segment is perpendicular ; transversely the abdomen is 

 regularly rounded, forming perhaps a little more than a semicircle ; three-fourths 

 of the tongue exposed, the inner edges of the legs resting against it ; basal wing 

 prominence apparently altogether absent ; surface of the abdomen transversely, 

 coarsely and infrequently striated, particularly on the hinder part of the segments 

 and with very distant minute warts, perhaps 15-20 on the dorsum of a single segment, 

 giving rise to long, nearly equal apically tapering, pretty slender hairs. Similar 

 hairs are found all over the thorax, where they are slightly longer. The body, says 

 Dr. Harris, is slightly contracted laterally before the middle, broadest behind the 

 middle, more obtuse before than behind, and the thorax projects slightly above. 



The Everid neuration is described by de Niceville (Butts. India, 

 iii., p. 136) (after Moore Lep. Ceyl., i., p. 85) as follows : — 



Foreicing : Costal nervure short, bent slightly upward before reaching the 

 costa, and not extending to half length of the margin ; the first subcostal nervule 

 ascending and anastomosed to the costal nervure near its end ; the second subcostal 

 at one-third before the end of the cell ; third subcostal at one-sixth before its end ; 

 the fourth subcostal from one-half length of the third and terminating at the apex ; 

 the fifth subcostal (upper discoidal) from the end of the discoidal cell ; the disco- 

 cellular nervules slightly oblique ; the radial (lower discoidal) nervule from their 

 middle ; the second median nervule emitted at one-sixth before the end of the cell, 

 the first median at one-half before its end ; the submedian nervure slightly recurved. 

 Hindunng : With a slender tail from the end of the first median nervule : the costal 

 nervure extending to near the apex, arched at the base ; upper discocellular nervule 



