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it appears to have a head at each extremity: which deception 
is much increased by a spot resembling an eye at the base 
of the processes. These insects, perhaps, thus perplex or 
alarm their assailants. 1 
Hesperia iarbas at first puzzled me, but it would appear to be the 
insect now known as Deudorix ( Rapala) iarbas , Eabr., and the very 
close ally of D. melampus, Cram., one of the insects in which I first 
noticed the peculiar structure of the anal lobe, about eighty-six years 
after Dr. Arnold’s observation. 
I remember well seeing a Lycaenid at rest on a leaf at Solon, on 
the road to Simla, in October, 1903, and noticed its tails waving 
about, as I thought at the time blown by the wind. 
On March 12th, 1904, the pretty white, black, and orange Talicada 
nyseus , Guer., was positively swarming near Kandy. I repeatedly 
watched it settle with its head upwards and immediately turn about 
so that its head looked downwards. 2 
At Mortehoe, June 5th, 1905, Mr. A. L. Onslow and I searched 
from sundown to dusk for Emmelesia albulata , Schiff., in a field 
adjoining my house; we failed in our search, but incidentally came 
across a number of Lycaena icarus , Rott., asleep on the stems of 
grasses, etc. Out of fifteen specimens, twelve had the head down, 
three had the head up. 3 
The lobed and tailed Lycaenids are not too easy to observe; they 
are active and commonly fly about the tops of shrubs or small trees ; 
when at rest they are not conspicuous and when disturbed dart 
swiftly off. 
Dr. Dixey noted :— 
August 20th. Durban (Botanical Garden). Saw an “ amphis- 
baenoid ” Lycaena settled twice; the first time horizontally, 
the second time head downwards. On both occasions the 
false head looked much more like a head than the real 
one did. There was a constant slight movement of the hind- 
wings ; and a waving of the false antennae. 
Unluckily this specimen eluded capture. Again Dr. Dixey 
noted:— 
August 16th. Durban (The Bluff). Saw a Lycaenid settled 
on the top of a leaf horizontally. The false head was 
1 “ An Introduction to Entomology,” vol. ii. p. 255. First Edition, 1817. 
2 See above, p. 114. 
3 When this butterfly first settles on flowers in full sunshine it expands its wings 
very fully, the primaries being drawn somewhat away from the secondaries. 
