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pale, somewhat whitish tinged with blue-grey. Hindwing with a very broad, nearly 
black costal border, occupying a third of the wing space, curving round the apex and 
gradually narrowing hindwards, a black linear mark at the end of the cell, a suffused 
whitish streak beyond it, and the rest of the wing pale coloured as in the forewing, but 
a little darker than it is in that wing. Underside like the male. Antennm black, 
ochreous at apex of club ; head and body brown above, paler beneath ; palpi and thorax 
greyish beneath. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ l-j 1 ^ inches. 
Larva. —Carnivorous, covered with minute dark bristles and furnished with a lateral 
fringe of hairs. Moore figured a larva and pupa in Lep. Ceylon (plate 34, fig. lb, larva 
and pupa) of Rathonda amor , Fabricius, by mistake (Moore’s notes). This information 
was given him by E. E. Green, of Ceylon. Green states that the real larvae are dull 
olive-green above, with numerous minute dark bristles and a lateral fringe of dark 
brown hairs, beneath pale green, slightly suffused with pink on anterior segments ; it 
feeds on Dactylopius adonidum (the mealy bug of planters), and partially covers and 
conceals itself with the mealy secretion from the Dactylopius. 
Pupa. —Various shades of brown, wing cases pale. E. H. Aitken confirms this in 
a very interesting paper in the Journal of the Bombay Nat. Hist. Society, 1894, 
p. 485 ; he states that he found the larvae covered with the white, woolly secretion of 
the mealy bug ; he brushed this off, and found that they were of the woodlouse form 
so common among the larvae of the Lycaenidae ; of a greenish-brown colour, with a 
few hairs scattered over the back, and a fringe of bristles running along the side and 
round the front, where the second segment conceals the head ; with this fringe he saw 
them shovel a quantity of the white stuff on to their backs, and clothe their nakedness 
after he had denuded them. He says, “Watching them with a lens, I soon saw that 
they were feeding among the mealy bugs; they would pass over the larger individuals 
and bury their heads in the downy covering of a little one, and though I could not say 
I actually saw that they devoured it, I was quite satisfied that this was what they did.” 
We represent on Plate 628 copies of Aitken’s figures of the pupa, slightly enlarged 
and also highly magnified. W. J. Holland, in Psyche, vi. p. 201, pi. 4 (1892), published 
a similar drawing of the pupa of Spalcjis s-signata , Holland, from Africa, exhibiting 
when magnified this extraordinary resemblance to the face of an ape or chimpanzee. 
Habitat. —India, Burma, Ceylon. 
Distribution, —Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, Davidson from Karwar, 
Aitken from Bombay, de Niceville from Calcutta, Burma and Ceylon; it is in our 
collection from Orissa and the Khasia Hills; it is in the B. M. also from Sikkim, 
Bhutan, Bhamo, Rangoon, and Penang. 
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