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the hottest, hours of the day on chosen trees about certain rocky peaks, and as one 

 of these basking points lies within a few miles of Karwar, we have secured a 

 certain number of specimens, mostly much broken. But females cannot be got in 

 this way. . . . The flight of the butterfly is very powerful, as might be inferred 

 from the robustness of the thorax. 



"The larva feeds on ' wagati ' {Wagatea spicafa), but tliis plant is much 

 commoner tlian C. schreiberi, and is, moreover, so villainously thorny that the 

 chance of finding larvae is not proportionate to the travail of looking for them. 

 The creature has an alternative food, Roiirea suntaloifles, also too common by half. 



" The larva is very like that of C. imna Bntler, but the white semicircle on 

 the back of the latter is replaced by a yellowish crescent. The pupa is just like 

 that of C. iniim. . . . We have observed before that robust butterflies grow slowl}', 

 and tliis is borne out by the present species. A larva, which emerged from tlic egg 

 on October 2r)th, did not become a pupa till January 26th, and no part of this time 

 was passed in hibernation." 



The colour of the larva of C. imna is described by these authors {I.e. V. p. 278. 

 n. 40. t. A. f. 4. 4a) as being " rich, dark green, with ... a yellow lateral line ; 

 horns and sides of face rusty br<jwu." 



Fergusson says of this insect in his list of the butterflies of Travancore, I.e. : 



" Very rare. I have only once seen what I believe to be this l)utterfly, and 

 Mr. T. F. Bourdillon sent me a single forewing that he picked up on the liills. 

 Mr. Inirav has taken it on Pirmerd at an elevation of 3700 feet." 



h. E. schreiber assameusis Rothsch., subsp. nov". (Fig. 39, S). 



Chanixes schreiberi, Nicuville, Butt, of Inch II. p. 274. n. 567 (1886) (pt. ; Jorehat, Assam) ; Butl., 



Juiiru. Lhm.Sne. LmuL XXV. p. .386. n. 99 (1896) (pt. ; Assam). 

 EuleiAa si-hreiher), Moore, Up. ind. II. p. 261. t. 188. f. 1. la, (j",? (1896) (pt. ; Assam ; Naga 



Hills). 



S ?. Wings, upperside. Forewing: discal band closer to cell than in tlie 



Malayan races, patches R- — M- concave outwardly, jiatch R' — M' longer than in 

 Javan .nchreiber, in i a spot before R' as in 



? of sehreiber schreiber. Hindwing : band 



and subanal abdominal patch as in Javan 

 schreiber ; white submarginal dots rather 

 smaller in S, tawny admarginal spots visible 

 in S but small ; discal blue scaling more 

 deeply sinuate in S. 



Underside. Forewing: submedian and 



median lines of bars parallel, not divergent 

 costad ; and median bar R- — R"' closer to cell 

 than in the following forms ; discal reddish- 

 brown patches R^ — M' mostly very small ; 

 discal bars S(;'^ — R- more proximal than in 

 schreiber schreiber ; discal, postdiscal, and 

 submarginal arched bars nearly as in toardi, better marked tlian in the forms 



described hereafter. Hindwing : submedian and median lines rather closer 



together, especially in front, than in the Malayan races. 



Jhb. Assam: Khasia Hills {tiipe), 2 <S S ; Jaintia Hills, 1 S : Shillong (? in 

 Mr. Philip Crowley's coll.) ; Cherra Punji ; Naga Hills (coll. Ch'owley) ; Jorchiit. 



Fig. 39. 



