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they may both be found more sparingly, also, in any open ground in the 

 jungles and hills, even when the open space is circumscribed and sur- 

 rounded by high forest; they range from Australia through the Malay 

 Archipelago to Burma and China, and are found in the Nicobars, the 

 Andamans, Ceylon and throughout India ; cnejus, indeed, goes still 

 further afield to the South Sea Islands. Pandaia is more restricted 

 in its habitat, not being found further east than Java practically ; and 

 is much more confined to the damp parts of its range. This last species 

 has distinct dry-and wet-season forms, whereas the others have not. 

 They are all three quick flies but pandava cannot compete with the other 

 two in this respect — it does not affect flowers ma h either, whereas 

 the others do ; all three suck moisture from damp places on the ground 

 but, otherwise, panduoa is more addicted to sitting on bushes and trees. 

 They bask with their wings slightly separated and rest with them 

 closed over their back. The life-histories of the tree species are known 

 and are described below. The larvae and pupae are all similar and the former 

 are attended by ants ; those oi panda oa, perhaps, more assiduously than the 

 others. The larvaj all feed upon leguminous plants and both they and the 

 pupae are absolutely normal in shape. 



152. Catochpysops atrabo, Fabr. — Male (PI. G., fig, 44). — Upperdde-.^dXs 

 violet with, in certain lights, a blue, slightly silvery sheen caused by a close 

 clothing of long, approssed, white hairs all over the wings. Fore wing : 

 a slender, anteciliary, dark line and a fringe of pale blue hairs along inner mar 

 gin. Hind wing : interspace 1 with a short, transverse, subterminal brown bar 

 or blackish spot edged inwardly faintly with white ; interspace 2 with a pro- 

 minent, round, black spot edged very faintly on the inner side by a diffuse 

 bluisli liumle and crowned often faintly with orange ; the dark, subterminal 

 spots of the underside apparent through transparency; an anticiliary, slender, 

 jet-black line more conspicuous than in the fore wing, in some specimens 

 edged invvardly in the posterior intsrspaces with white ; this line is present in 

 interspaces I and 2 in all specimens. Cilia of both fore and hind wings 

 whita transversely traversed near the base by a brown line ; tail black, 

 thread-like, tipped with white. Underside: pale dull' grey. Fore wing: 

 a short, narrow, transverse band on the discocellulars ; a small, round, 

 subcostal pot ia interspace 10, a transverse, discal band that extenlsfrom 

 veins 1 to 7, the portion below vein 3 dislocated and shifted inwards; a 

 transverse, subterminal, ill-defined band and a terniinal series of inwardly 

 rounded spots, each of which snbapically fills an interspace, greyish-brown ; 

 the discocellnlar and discal bands edged inwardly and outwardly by 

 white lines, the subcostal spot encircled with white and tho subterminal 

 band and termmal spots edged on their inner sides with the same colour ; 

 lastly, a dark greyish-brown anteciliary line. Hind wing : a subbasal spot 

 and a spot beyond it in interspace 7, a large, round, subterminal spot crowned 

 with ochraceous in interspace 2, two geminate specks subterminally in in- 

 terspace 1 and a terminal similar speck in interspace 1 a black ; the spots in 

 interspace 7 encircled with white ; a lunular spot in middle of cell ; two 

 elongate spots in transverse order below it ; a short transverse band on the 

 discocellnlars and a very irregidar, transverse, broken, sinuous, discal band 

 dark greyish-brown, edged inwardly and outwardly with white; beyond 

 these is an inner subterminal series of greyish-brown lunules followed by an 

 outer subterminal series of similarly coloured spots, the latter encircled 

 with white, and a black anteciliary slender line. Antennfs. palpi, head, 

 frons white and black, thorax and abdomen dark brown, a little purplish on 

 the thorax ; the shafts of the antennsb ringed with white, the club tipped 

 with orange ; beneath the palpi, thorax and abdomen white: (PI. <i., fig. 

 44a.) ¥emdi\Q.— Upper side: fore wing: costa, apex and termen broadly 



