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Polyommatus boeticus, Linn . 
This Lycaenid lays its eggs singly on flower-buds and young shoots of Vigna sinensis , 
Hassk., Nat. Ord. Legnminosce , a large twiner with white flowers, climbing over bushes, etc. 
The egg is very small compared to the size of the butterfly ; circular and flattened, pale greenish 
when first laid, afterwards whitish, reticulated on the top and round the edge. 
Larva, fullgrown, the usual Lycaenid type, general colour dull yellowish-green ; a fairly 
distinct purplish longitudinal dorsal band. Three lateral rows, each side, of obscure purplish 
diagonal markings, three on each segment. Underside, legs and prolegs pale greenish-yellow. An 
obscure pale yellowish lateral band just above the legs each side. Just after a moult the larva is 
almost wholly light green, the dorsal band darker green, and the diagonal markings very obscure 
but of a slightly darker green. Upperside finely irrorated with dusky dots, due to very short and 
rather sparse stubbly hairs. Head brownish. This larva has no vestige of the retractile glands 
present in the larvae of Catochrysops cnejus , Spindasis lohita and Tajuria cippus : it has, 
however, the transverse dorsal gland on the eleventh segment. The larva when young feeds chiefly 
on the flowers and buds, but later bores into and eats away the interior of the seed-pods, in which 
it lives. 
Pupa, the usual dumpy Lycaenid form, of a pale ochreous or flesh colour, with a rather 
distinct longitudinal dorsal dusky band. Four rows of small dusky spots down the dorsal surface 
of the abdomen (two rows each side of the dorsal band) altogether four spots on each segment. 
Whole surface of pupa more or less dotted with dusky, especially on the dorsal surface. Attached 
by a band round the middle, but apparently with little or no cremastral attachment. The larva 
seems to pupate either within a hollowed-out seed-pod, or beneath leaves, etc., which it sometimes 
slightly secures together with silk. 
Genus Zizera. 
From the specimens I have sent from this district Mr. H. H. Druce apparently makes 
three species viz : Z. maha , Z. argia and Z. otis. This information unfortunately came too late 
for publication with the Lycaenidae. The caption “ Z. maha, Kollar ,” on page 71 should read 
“Z. otis, FabrL\ line 11, from the bottom of page 71 “ Fig. 3, PI. Va is a remarkable variety” 
et seq. should be deleted. But Z. maha and Z. argia are so close to one another, with every 
intermediate form leading imperceptibly from one to the other, that I cannot distinguish between 
them, and therefore carefully examined the genitalia, which also seem identical. The genitalia of Z ’. 
otis , however, are quite distinct from Z. argia. 
