INVERTED ATTITUDE 
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As regards the lobes to the hind-wings of so many Lycaenids 
the following additional facts may be noted:— 
Aphnaeus ( Spindasis ) vulcanus, Eabr. Ceylon, 1908. In this 
species, which has a habit of curvetting rapidly about before settling 
on the ground, the lobes, which are small, are everted. The hind- 
wings are folded in such a way as to make a very slight convexity 
between the two tails, the nervures corresponding to the latter lying 
in re-entrant angles. 
Rapala lazulina, Moore. Ceylon, 1908. The lobes are everted. 
loxura arcuata , Moore. Ceylon, 1908. This species has a 
peculiar darting flight. The arrangement of the wings at rest is 
somewhat complicated: the lobes, which are small, are half, or 
perhaps three-quarters, everted, showing an eye-spot when the insect 
is looked down upon from above; the long tails appear to be some¬ 
what twisted—one overlying the other, their black and white tips 
curved upwards. The portion of the hind-wing between the extremity 
of the abdomen and the lobe is bent inwards. As touching the very 
nearly allied Indian species, L. atynmus , Cram., I noted at Calcutta 
in 1903, “its wings are much plaited longitudinally, and when at 
rest its extremely long tails, crumpled look, and brown colour give 
it quite the appearance of a dead leaf/’ 
Tarucus theophrastns , Eabr,, Sudan, 1909, was seen to “saw” 
with its hind-wings. 
Catochrysops eleusis, Dem. Egypt, 1909. This was several times 
discovered settled head downwards, and also seen to settle with its 
head up and immediately turn round. On one occasion while I was 
looking at two of them settled head downwards on a flower-head of 
grass, a third settled just above them, head up, but at once turned 
round, so that there were three of the pretty little butterflies sitting 
one above the other within a couple of inches. 
Gyaniris argiolus , Linn., Hassocks, Sussex, July 24, 1911, seen 
to settle three times head upwards and at once turn round. 
Mr. Erank Littlewood, of Kendal, records “ on the 14th 
(August, 1910) I took a grand series of Chrysophanus phlaeas on 
the border of the Moss. . » . During the day the heather-bloom 
seemed to be a great attraction, but towards evening, in an adjacent 
cornfield, numbers were observed resting, with wings opened towards 
the waning sun, on the ripe heads of the com, and a pretty picture 
they presented, dotted about the field like so many brilliant flowers. 
With a solitary exception all were head downwards.”—■ Entomologist , 
1911, p. 72. 
Neither the inverted attitude nor the everted lobe would appear 
