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LYCJEmDJE. 
Larva, bright light green, segments well defined. Head yellowish, marked with brown 
near the jaws. Body sparsely covered with short white stubbly hairs, especially over the anus and 
in a lateral band over the prolegs. Underside and legs paler green. The head when the larva is 
resting is completely hidden by the second segment, under which it is drawn. The larvae rest on 
the underside of the leaves. 
Pupa, stout, smooth, bright green, slightly sprinkled with very short white hairs. 
Attached by the tip of the abdomen and a band round the middle. 
Megisba malaya, Horsf. 
A pretty little butterfly, not unlike Neopithecops at a glance, but conspicuously marked 
in black on the underside, and the hindwings “ tailed.” Its habits, too, are entirely different, for 
it does not affect heavy shade, though it haunts foliage, and its flight is strong and rapid. It 
generally rests on the upperside of leaves, frequenting wooded districts, and is not a common 
insect here. I found it abundant in the small woods round the temples on the big hill behind 
Tam-chau in Kwangsi, at the junction of the Red and Nanning branches of the West River ; it 
there frequented the flowers of small shrubs. 
Fig. 27, PI. VIII is from a $ taken in August, and it seems to occur chiefly in the 
autumn, especially during October. The sexes are similar. 
Chilades laius, Cram. 
One of the commonest Lycaenids here, occurring practically every month in more or less 
numbers. There is much range in size and marking and general colouring, especially in the 
females, and there is also a seasonal change in the underside of both sexes ; The underside of both 
$ and ? has the spots very black and distinct in the wet form ; in the dry form they become 
centred with yellowish-brown and the black edging indistinct or coalescing with other spots; some¬ 
times the whole underside is pale brown, the spots very faint and edged with whitish. The 
females during the wet season are sometimes wholly brown on the upperside (form varunana , 
Moore) except for the marginal whitish markings in the hindwing, which are usually distinct, 
those in the forewing being often much obscured. This butterfly wanders over scrub and waste 
land, usually not very far from the ground, and flies at a rather slow or moderate speed, feeding at 
most of the flowers it comes across. It is also common in gardens and in fact occurs everywhere. 
It is fond of settling on foliage, where it very often rests with open wings. 
Egg, hemispherical or bee-hive shape, reticulated, greenish-white; laid singly into the 
joints of thorns, shoots and branches of Atalantia buxtfolia , Oliv., Nat. Ord. Aurantiacece , only 
known from China, a very common thorny shrub here, the foodplant of the larva. The leaves 
when bruised have a strong smell of orange, and the rather large berries, black when ripe, are edible. 
Larva, light green, head brown. Slightly pubescent with extremely short whitish hairs, 
and of the slug-shape common to most Lyceenid larvae. 
