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patch with three large sub-terminal lunular brown spots; tail long, pure white. Cilia 
of forewing blackish-brown with white tips, of hindwing pure white. Underside as in 
the male, but the white discal bands consist of larger and more prominent lunular 
marks. Hindmng with a rather broad macular white band between the discal band 
and the outer margin, decreasing in width upwards and consisting of minute white 
spots on the upper half of the wing ; anal lobe black, ringed with white ; a marginal 
series of green spots ringed with white, the two next to the lobe with black spots in 
them ; tail white, the lower half of the cilia white, an anteciliary green line. 
Expanse of wings, J li to 1 t 7 q-, ¥ 1 t 9 q- to 2-^j- inches. 
Larva, curiously similar to that of Virachola perse, with which I found it; its 
habits are also identical; the differences were as follows : whereas in V. perse the 
medial segments were a deep red-brown and the three anterior segments ochreous, the 
medial ones were more purplish in tint inclining to indigo when undergoing the pupal 
change, and the anterior segments more orange than ochreous. The last pair of 
breathing apertures in V. perse were pale buff (the others being black), but those of L. eryx 
were the same colour as the other lateral ones, viz. black with shiny black rims. Both 
larvae had a quadrate buff patch occupying the central dorsal portion of the two medial 
segments, but in L. eryx the patch was rather smaller and paler than that of V. perse. 
On 20th June, 1895, at Fagoo, 2,500 feet, British Bhutan, I found eleven pupse 
of Lehera eryx , Linnaeus, in the interior of the fruit of the wild pomegranate. They 
were enclosed in precisely the same manner as those of Virachola perse , Hewitson, 
which feeds on the fruit of the same plant. Out of these pupae only one had the 
opening in the side of the fruit closed with a web, the rest being quite open, and, as 
the fruit was in all cases in a rotten condition, it was also occupied by small dipterous 
(fly) larvae, and Coleoptera (beetles), in two or three cases with a very small ant which 
did not attack the pupae, but I cannot see what use they could be to this insect as they 
are to other lycaenids. The pupa is robust, reddish-brown mottled with fuscous, 
especially on the back and sides. In some specimens the first two abdominal segments 
were dorsally yellowish. The butterflies commenced to emerge within a week after I 
found the pupae. (Dudgeon.) 
Habitat. —Sikkim, Assam, Burma, China. 
Distribution. —Watson records it from the Chin Hills, Manders from the Shan 
States, de Niceville from Sikkim and Sibsaghar in Upper Assam; we have both sexes 
from Ban goon and the Khasia Hills. 
LEHERA SKINNERI. 
Plate 711, figs. 2, 2a, J, 2b, $. 
Leliera skinneri, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 369, pi. 15, fig. 3, $ . 
de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 445 (1890). 
