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is it weak — a sort of medium fluttering style. It rests with its 

 wings closed as a rule and never goes to flowers or water. It was 

 first bred in Kanara District of Bombay and has been recorded from 

 Masuri, Sikkim in the Himalayas ; Orissa, South India ; Kanara and 

 the Nilgiris; Ceylon; Assam ; Burma; the Malay Peninsula; Nias 

 Island and Sumatra and Borneo. 



33. Genus — Horaga. 



Like the genus Catap<scilma, and the oenus Rathinda, this is also dis- 

 tinguished from the majority by the insects having three tails to the hind 

 wing ; they are further characterized by having both wings crossed by a 

 more or less broad, continuous, discal band whereas Rathinda is spotted 

 with only an apical band to the hind wing, Catapcecilma is dark-banded 

 and spotted without a sign of a similar white band. Eyes naked ; body 

 stout; palpi directed out straight in front, second joint roughly scaled, 

 slender and reaching beyond the head, third joint cylindrical, one-third the 

 length of the second ; legs short, antennae short, gradually thickened to the 

 pointed club ; considerably less than half the length of the wing. De Niceville 

 says that about ten species have been described, that the genvis is a purely 

 Oriental one, that its headquarters are in India and enumerates 7 species as 

 occurring in India, Burma,aud Ceylon of which, however, only 6 are now recog- 

 nised as really good ; others occur in the Malay Peninsula and some of the 

 island of the Archipelago beyond. The flight of the insects is rapid, but 

 they never go far, but settle again shortly. They do not go to flowers and 

 water, at least they have never been observed to do so. The writer once saw 

 many butterflies flying round the young shoots of Diospyros embryopteria . 

 De Niceville and Mackinnon bred two of the species at Masuri in the 

 Himalayas and the larva is said to be very similar to that of Rathinda 

 amor but has eleven processes instead of the 15 of that species. The 

 pupa is stout, affixed only by the tail and evidently resembles very much 

 the stout type of Rathinda chrysalis. The foodplant is given as Coriaria 

 nepale7isis of the family Coriariaccce . 



187. Horaga onyx, Moore. — Male. Upperside cyaneous-blue. Fore wing 

 with a patch of white outside the end of the cell, divided into 4 by veins 

 2, 3 and 4 ; the upper piece the smallest, the spot below vein 4 small ; the 

 costa with a black band, narrow at the base, increasing in width outwards, 

 occupying the whole apical space beyond the white patch, and broadly down 

 the outer margin. Hind wing with the costal a]*ea broadly blackish, 

 a narrow, macular, outer, marginal, black band ; terminal black line ; anteci- 

 liary bluish-white thread ; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings 

 black, tipped with white on the hind wing and at the hinder angle of the fore 

 wing. Underside pale ferruginous-brown, with a pinkish tint. Fore wing 

 with the hinder, marginal space below the submedian vein white ; a broad 

 band with dark-brown edges crossing the wing from the white hinder 

 space to near the costa, its inner edge passing just outside the end of the 

 cell, fairly erect, somewhat sinuous, its outer margin inwardly oblique 

 from vein 4, narrowing the upper end of the band to a point below the 

 costa ; terminal line dark-brown. Hind wing with a narrower band in 

 continuation, edged inwardly with dark-brown, somewhat difluse on its 

 outer side, the band somewhat constricted in its middle, extending from the 

 costa (where it is broadest) down to the first interspace, where it is angled 

 and runs inwards in a straight black line, with some metallic blue-green 

 spots on it ; two similar spots below the angle ; and three or four on the 

 abdominal margin above the anal angle ; a black, anal spot in interspaces 



