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LYC^NIDJE. 



reflection is, in the hinder wings confined to the base, in the fore wings expanded to the 

 disc, but entirely evanescent in a certain position towards the light ; posterior border of the 

 hinder wings bearing a series of dark ocellate spots, of which two at the anal angle are of a 

 deeper tint and surrounded internally with bright rufous crescents ; the penultimate ocellus 

 exceeds the last in size and brilliancy of colour ; all these ocelli are abruptly truncated 

 behind, and the exterior ones are surrounded internally with narrow white crescents ; a row 

 of angular or wedge-shaped marks of a brilliant white, having the points directed towards 

 the disc, passes along the inner edge of the marginal series ; the cilia are grey ; underneath 

 the wings are grey with a faint isabella-yellow shade ; each pair is marked on tbe disc with 

 a short transverse stigma, which in the hinder ones is slightly curved ; the anterior wings 

 have further three ranges of catenulated bands of a brown colour, of which the two exterior 

 are parallel with and adjoining the posterior margin, being confined by the marginal strigie ; 

 the third, in which the catenulated character is more distinctly exhibited, is intermediate 

 between the marginal series and the disc ; this is continued through the hinder pair, where 

 it is more curved and somewhat irregular and infracted in its course ; in the marginal series 

 of ocellate s^wts, the interior ones form two strongly marked anal ocelli : these are regularly 

 round, nearly equal in size and brilliancy of tint, intensely black, encircled by a pale orange 

 iris, bordered internally by a ring of yellow metallic irrorations, which is partially interrupted 

 at the interiuil edge; the hinder wings have further four ocellate spots of an intense black 

 colour with white iris, three of these arc placed in a transverse series at the base, and 

 a third, somewhat larger and more vivid, in the middle of the anterior margin close to 

 the costa. The thorax above has a bluish cast, and is covered with delicate hairs ; the 

 abdomen is brown ; underneath the thorax and legs are covered with a delicate pure white 

 down, and the abdomen agrees in colour with the wings ; the antennje are banded with 

 white." (Uomfiekl, I. c.) 



*'La)-va when full-fed about half an inch in longtli, green, of the usual lycajnid-sliape, the head 

 small, black, shining, retractile as usual. Colour of body pale green, with darker green 

 or reddish dorsal and subdorsal lines, often with short oblique lines one on each segment on 

 each side between the dorsal and subdorsal lines, the latter coalesced into a broad band 

 between the eleventh and last segments. The entire surface of fhe l)ody covered with 

 minute white tubercles, there are also a few scattered white liairs. The segmental 

 constrictions shallow. Spiracles black. Extensile organs on the twelfth segment small. 

 The larva is broader than high in its highest part, increasing in width to the fourth segment, 

 from thcDco to the flattened anal segment of about uniform width. Pred by mo in Calcutta 

 on Phaseolus trilohtis, l.innacus." (de Niceville, I. c.) 



According to Mrs. Wyily, as quoted by de Niceville the larvJB vary in colour; some are 



yellowish green, others uniform pale green, and others again are dark red-brown. "The 

 food-plant is an edible bean (UolicJm catjmuj) growing in the rains, with clusters of bluish 

 flowers," and the larva feed on the flowers and buds. 



1 received (me si)ecimeu from Ta-cliien-lu, Western China, where it 

 ua.s taken at an elevation of over 7000 feet. It is rather larger than 

 Darjiliiif,' specimens; tlie outer margins are more broadly bordered with 

 Ijlack, and tlie discoidal spot of ])rimaries is more distinct. 



Ml. (!<■ Niceville places C. patala,Ko\\^v, as a synonym of Catochrysops 



