33G LYC^NID^. 
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 the 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 strigae ; 
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 spots, 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 internal edge : the hinder wings have further four ocellate spots of an intense black 
colour with white iris, three of these are 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 liaira ; 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 antennae are banded with 
white." {Horsfield, I. c.) 
"Larva when full-fed about half an inch in length, green, of the usual lycaenid-shape, 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 the body covered with 
minute white tubercles, there are also a few scattered white hairs. 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 thence to the flattened anal segment of about uniform width. Bred by me in Calcutta 
on Phaseolus trilobiis, Linnoeus." {de Niceville, I. c.) 
According to Mrs. Wylly, as quoted by de Niceville (?. c), the larva! vary in colour; some are 
yellowish green, others uniform pale green, and others again are dark red-brown. "The 
food-plant is an edible beau (BolicJios catjanrj) growing in the rains, with clusters of bluish 
flowers," and the larvae feed on the flowers and buds. 
I received one specimen from Ta-cliien-lu, Western China, where it 
was taken at an elevation of over 7000 feet. It is rather larger than 
])arjiling specimens ; the outer margins are more broadly bordered mth 
black, and the discoidal spot of primaries is more distinct. 
Mr. de Niceville places C. patala, Kollar, as a synonym of Catochrysops 
