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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
tlie anal angle, a submarginal series of similar spots, increasing in size liindwards, anal 
lobe black, a linear white mark, and a curved streak of metallic blue scales above it, 
a black spot in the first interspace, ringed with orange. 
Female. Upperside fulvous-brown. Forewing with some fulvous suffusion below 
the median vein, varying in extent in different examples. Hinclwing with the 
abdominal fold paie, in some examples without any markings, in some the entire wing is 
tinted with fulvous, and sometimes there are indications of a series of fulvous sub¬ 
marginal spots. Underside as in the male, the ground colour often much paler. 
Expanse of wings, £ 1 t 4 q to 1 T %, $ 1 T % to 2 inches. 
Larva, when full fed and extended in walking, 0*9 of an inch in length; ground 
colour dull ochreous, blotched with leaden-black, the surface of all the segments smooth 
and shining, the constrictions between the segments well-marked, each segment with 
a shallow dorsal pit, a sub-dorsal pit on each side, and a lateral pit which bears the 
deep black spiracles; the entire lateral edge of the larva furnished with rather long, 
bristly hairs; the larva is of the usual lycsenid shape, the head small and entirely 
retractile into the second segment, dull ochreous, marked with leaden-black as are 
the segments ; the body increasing in width to the fourth segment, then gradually 
decreasing to the anal segment, the larva is rather depressed, broader than high, the 
three anal segments are scutate, the shield being used to block up the entrance to 
the fruit on which the larva feeds; the second and third segments are brighter 
ochreous than the rest, the blackish markings more sparse, wholly absent on the 
anterior portion of the second segment. I can find no trace whatever of the special 
organs found on many Lycsenidse larvae which are affected by ants. Feeds on the 
fruit of the pomegranate. 
Pupa O' 55 of an inch in length, light reddish-brown speckled with black in no 
decided pattern, the surface rather rough above and covered sparsely with short 
stout white bristles, below quite smooth, of a lighter colour, and without the black 
speckles and bristles; shape everywhere rounded except anteriorly, where the head is 
anteriorly bounded by a sharp ridge, the thorax very slightly humped, the anal 
segment depressed, pointed. Described from specimens sent to me by Mr. P. W. 
Mackinnon, and obtained by him at 4,000 feet elevation below Masuri. (de Niceville.) 
Habitat. —India, Burma, Ceylon, Andamans, Nikobars, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, 
Celebes, Nias. 
A common species, with a very rapid flight. The larva and the pupa are figured from 
Davidsons original drawings. 
DEUDORIX DIARA. 
Plate 712, figs. 1, la, ? , lb, 
Deudorix diara, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist. 1896, p. 357. H. H. Bruce, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1896, 
p. 681, pi. 31, fig. 14, l . 
