THJE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 101 



India, Burma and Ceylon, The trees that form its foodplants — b^- 

 the way Xylia dolahriformis, also leguminous, is also one — are of 

 fairly high stature and, therefore, the butterfly is found flying at all 

 heights ; but, none the less is it often to be caught close to the 

 ground — but it is the males that are oftenest thus captured. The 

 females seem to be somewhat scarcer, though by no means uncom- 

 mon. The resting position is normal, with the wings closed over 

 the back. The distribution of the speecies is : Peninsular India, 

 except very dry or deserfc tracts; Ceylon; Assam; Burma; 

 Tenasserim; the Andamans; extending in the Malayan Subregion 

 to Australia. 



Figures 41 and 4'la of Plate G represent the male and female 

 butterflies respectively. The colour is too dark and, on the under- 

 sides, too pink ; the white lines on the undersides of the wings in 

 the male are two indistinct, the costal margin of the hind wing on 

 the upperside is too white. The blue colour on the upperside of 

 the female wings is altogether wrong; it should be lighter and is 

 not at all metallic. 



151. Jamides celeno, Cramer. — Wet-season brood. — Male (PI. G, fig. 42). 

 Upperside : pale bluish-white, the discs of both wings bare of hairs, the inner 

 margins fringed with long, white hair. The white markings of the underside 

 show through by transparency. Fore wing: terminal margin narrowly edge 

 with black that broadens slightly towards the apex of the wing ; the veins 

 along the costa slightly black, the base of costa brown ; cilin dark-brown, the 

 top halt slightly lighter, the extreme base often narrowly lighter still. Hind 

 wing: uniform in colour except for an anteciliary, thin, jet-black line edged 

 on the inner side somewhat obscurely by a white line within which and 

 touching it is a row of black spots, the spot in interspace 2 often being the 

 only well-defined one but, generally, two, much smaller, often geminate 

 marks in interspace I (sometimes represented by a simple brown line) and a 

 blacker, small mark in interspact^ la followed above by a short, brown line; 

 cilia rather light-brown white at the bases in the interspaces. Sometimes 

 the black edging to the termen (outer margin) of the fore wing is much 

 reduced and the subterminal series of spots on the hind wing may be 

 nearly absent. Underside: greyish-brown with the following markings 

 across the fore wing, beginning from the outside on the terminal margin : 

 the cilia light-brown, the basal half pure- white, with a darker line running 

 through the middle : a narrow, dark-brown, anteciliary band or broad 

 line ; inside this are the following white lines : two subterminal, parallel, 

 from vein 7 to inner margin, quite parallel with the outer margin, inter- 

 rupted narrowly at the veins, a little broader than the anteciliary, brown 

 line and separated from each other by a distance d nible that breadth, the 

 ends in interspaces 1 and 2 always widened, especially of the inner lines ; 

 a similar line, at right angles to vein .5, from vein 9 to vein 3, often at 

 the lower end, touching the inner of the subterminal pair, sometimes well 

 separated from it ; generally very well-defined along its inner edge by 

 darker shading than the groun(l-coloiir ; a postmedial (postdiscal) line, 

 parallel to the preceding, from vein 10 to vein 1, well-defined outwardly 

 by brown to vein 3 and inwardly beyond ; a pair of short lines, one on each 

 side of tho discocelidiir nervules between the top and bottom limits of the 

 cell, sometimes parallel to each other, sometimes not qxiite, sometimes 

 parallel to the postmedial line, sometimes converging towards it, both 



