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and white. — Female. Upperside : both wings dull, smokey brown. Hind 

 wing : with the abdominal margin whitish, very hairy ; the outer margin 

 bearing, from vein 3 to the abdominal margin, a double series of somewhat 

 quadrate, white spots ; followed, on the margin, by a small, black spot in 

 inter-space 2 ; a large, intensely black, rounded spot in interspace 1 ; thence 

 to the inner margin irrorated with black scales ; the anal lobe with an oval, 

 ochreous spot ; a very fine, black, marginal thread from the anal angle to 

 vein 5, inwardly defined with white. Underside : both wings marked as 

 in the male, but the ground-colour of the costa and anterior half of the fore 

 wing and the apex of the hind wing, more ochreous than in the male. 

 Cilia on the upperside of fore wing dull brown, on the underside paler ; on 

 the hind wing dull brown at the apex, thence pure white to the anal angle. 



Two tails in both sexes, white throughout in the male, the one at vein 2 

 long and faintly marked with blackish down the middle in the female ; 



the one at the end of vein 1 twice as long, more prominently marked with 



black, that colour disappearing towards the tip. Expanse : male, 30-38 mm.; 



female, 35-40 mm. 



Larva. — Green, hairy, depressed ; head black, second and third segments 



increasing in size ; marked with short, black lines ; the following segments 



of equal size ; the three last ones dorsally flattened and marked above 



with crimson. 



Pupa. — Of the usual lycienid shape ; yellowish-green ; head and thorax 



emerald-green. 



The description of the transformations are from Horsfield and Moore's 



figures and are given in de Niceville's book. 



Habits. — All that is known to the writer has been given already 

 nnder the description of the genus, de Niceville says that it 

 occurs commonly at low elevations in Sikkim and he remarks that 

 it flies rapidly and compares it to a dragon-fly ! It does not really 

 fly rapidly. 



31. Genus — Rathinda. 



" The genus Rathinda contains but a single species which is brown on 

 the upperside with an oblique, transverse, discal, macvUar, white or 

 ochreous band on the fore wing and a submarginal, reddish-ochreous band 

 on the hind wing. The underside is very beautifully marked, the apex 

 of the fore wing is ochreous-brown, the base of the fore wing and the 

 entire hindwing is sometimes pure white, sometimes pale ochreous-browa 

 cr greyish-ochreous, sometimes entirely ochreous, marked with dark, 

 ochreous-brown lines, patches and spots ; the hind wing with a sub- 

 marginal, metallic, silvery-green line. There are three tails, the middle 

 one twice as long (4 mm.) as the others. The male has no secondary 

 characters." The larva is very abnormal having many fleshy processes, 

 long and conical in various positions ; the pupa is of the type of Tajuria 

 aad Camena-Ops-Creon, fixed only by the tail and standing free thereon. 

 The butterfly is a weak, fluttering flier and is easily caught ; it is confined 

 altogether to the underwood but is found from sea-level up to the 3,000' 

 hill-tops and even out into the borders of the opener country on the 

 Western Ghats in Bombay ; which means from the region of 100 to 300' 

 and over of rainfall to where it is but 60" or even less and from the 

 Malayan scrub jungle of the coast through the very densest and tallest 

 evergreen forest into more or less Deccan scrub on the other side ; it 

 extends from Assam through Orissa and is found throughout Southern India 

 and Ceylon in suitable places. The foodplants are numerous. 



