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segment entirely flesh-coloured, the seventh and eighth creamy-white, with a small 
dorsal and lateral patch of dark purplish-brown, the three anal segments scutate, all 
the segments widely pitted and covered with short but coarse black bristles, which are 
more numerous at the sides and whitish. 
Pupa, of the usual lycsenid shape, brown, marked with a dorsal and lateral black 
line, the whole surface rough, covered with tiny pits, furnished with a few short coarse 
bristles, which are most numerous round the sharp anterior ridge which encloses the 
head ; wing cases pale ochreous ; head rounded, anal segment blunt. 
Habitat. —Ceylon, South India. 
Distribution. —Watson records it from Mysore, Hampson from the Nilgiris, 
2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation ; it is in the B. M. from Trincomali and Karwar; we 
have received a fair number of both sexes from Ceylon, a pair of which w T e figure, and 
except for the narrow blue-green marginal band on the hind wing in the male, they are 
identical with B. phocides , and as some Indian examples of phocides show signs of this 
green band, having a few blue-green scales where the band should be, we cannot but 
come to the conclusion that it is at best but a local form of that species, differing 
constantly but very slightly, and certainly nearer to phocides than it is to sugriva , the 
Javan form, with its broad green border and dark and well-pronounced underside 
markings. 
BINDAHARA ARECA. 
Plate 710, figs. 2, $ , 2a, $ . 
Myrina areca, Felder, Verh. Zool-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 481, $ (1862). 
Bindahara areca , de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 474, pi. 29, fig. 242, £ (1890). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside, both wings purpurascent-blackish. Forewing with the 
outermost part paler. Hindwing with the anal region, an annexed litura, marked with 
a blue dot near the sub-anal tooth, and the tail pale ochreous. Underside, both wings 
fulvous-ochreous, each with a broad discal fascia, palely obsolete, with fuscous catenular 
strigse, outwardly circled with white ; forewing with the external margin, hindwing 
with the margin of the apex concolorous, but shining, the latter with more obsolete 
spots on the disc, an anteciliary line and a posterior undulate streak blackish, 
beyond this four black spots, the first two obsolete, the remainder much larger, 
each one inwardly circled with a metallic greenish ring, and a black spot in the 
anal lobe. 
Only one fine male was collected of this species, so distinct owing to the dark 
colour on its upper side. It is most nearly related to M. isabella, Felder, from 
Amboina, and without doubt it is a representative form, but it has the size of the 
Javan species, M. sugriva, Horsfield. The want of the cyaneous-blue spots on the 
