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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
small. The constrictions between the segments slight and inconspicuous. Feeds on 
Zizyphus jujuba and Zizyphus vulgaris . Dr. A. Forel, of Geneva, identifies the ants 
which attend these larvae as Componotus rubripes , Drury, sub-species Compressus, 
Fabricius, and Plieidole latinota , Eoger. 
Pupa. —Of the usual Lycsenid shape ; head, thorax and wing cases green, speckled 
thickly with black, abdomen green. There is an indistinct black dorsal line extending 
down the whole length of the body, with a double sub-dorsal series of indistinct black 
specks; the head is rounded, the thorax slightly humped, the pupa throughout quite 
smooth. 
Mrs. Wylie says the ants attend the caterpillars until they are full-grown, when 
the ants drive them down the stem of the tree which they have hitherto inhabited, 
into a temporary nest the ants have set up at the foot of the tree, where on opening 
the nest “ you will see some hundreds of larvse and pupse in all stages of development 
arranged in a broad and even band all round the trunk, and lightly covered with 
earth/’ The perfect insects emerge in this nest, and, after drying their wings, are 
allowed to fly away unmolested (de Niceville). 
Habitat. —India, Burma, Ceylon, Beluchistan, Persia, Arabia and Africa. A 
common species. 
TARUCUS VENOSUS. 
Plate 633, figs. 2, £, 2a, $ , 2b, $. 
Tarucus venosus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245, pi. 12, fig. 6, 6a, $ . Doherty, Journ. As. 
Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 132. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 147. de Niceville, Butt, of 
India, iii. p. 193, pi. 27, fig. 189, £ (1890). Bingham, Pauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 419 
(1907). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside coloured like T. theophrastus, but of a darker purple. 
Forewing with a rather conspicuous black linear mark at the end of the cell, with a 
rather broad outer marginal brownish-shaded band. Hindwing with a similar black bar 
at the end of the cell, and with a terminal band as in the forewing, but narrower. 
Underside as in the Wet-season form of Theophrastus, but all the streaks and spots 
larger. 
Female. Upperside coloured like the male, the markings as in the female of the 
Wet-season form of Theophrastus, but the sub terminal row of white lunules on the hind¬ 
wing is wanting. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, £ ¥ lyu inches. 
Habitat. —North-Western India. 
Distribution. —Recorded by de Niceville from Dharmsala, Kala Pani, Bagheswar, 
Sarju Valley, Kali Valley, 2,400 feet, Kumaon ; we have it from Kulu, and it is in the 
B. M. also from Kangra, Sultanpore, and Gurais Valley. 
