Forest Pierrot (Lycaenidae)

Description:

Upperside: uniform very pale brown, somewhat paler in the female, the black spots of the underside faintly apparent by transparency. Underside: white, with round black spots and markings as follows:— Fore wing: a spot at base of wing followed in transverse order by two spots, again two spots, then an irregular row of five spots that crosses near the apex of cell, the lower two coalescent, beyond that another curved row of five spots, two of which are in interspace 3, then a complete curved series of outwardly-pointed and a terminal series of inwardly-pointed similar spots. The spots of the last series cross a well-marked but very slender anticiliary black line, and thus cause the white cilia to the wing to be alternated with black. Hind wing: similarly crossed by five rows, all of which are more or less curved outwards, of black spots, followed by a slender uninterrupted anticiliary black line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, shafts of the antennae ringed with white, apex o£ club ochraceous ; beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen white.