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gveen on belly with bands and blotches of white on segments 4, 5, 11 and 12 ; 

 the tentacles are black with a white stripe inside and outside for half their 

 length ; on segment 2 are two white bands, the first near front margin reaching 

 spiracles on each side and curving slightly back at ends, the second, along 

 liinder margin, not quite reaching dorso-ventral line on each sides; segments 

 lias four similar bands, parallel besides a fifth continued from stripe on tentacle 

 to the dorso-ventral line ; segment 4 has four narrowish bands and a central 

 interrupted one of which the basal portions only on each side exist ; segments 

 .") to 11 have four narrow bands, an anterior broader one and an interrupted 

 one immediately behind the broader one like that on segment 4 ; segment 

 12 has a broad anterior band, the stripes of tentacles continued down 

 sides and two bands behind ; anal segments have a pair of bands anteriorly 

 coalescing on margin and a posterior pair surrounding the shiny black dorsal 

 boss of the anal fiap ; connective membrane between the segments yellowish- 

 orange ; prolegs and legs shiny black with basal and preapical white band. 

 L. 37mm. : B, 7mm. ; L. of front tentacles, 9*5mm. (vhle PL I., fig. 8). 



Pupa. — Shape the same exactly as that of the last species. Spiracles oval, 

 colour of pupa. Surface smooth and shiny. Colour naturally green ( if among 

 dead, dry leaves or in a wooden box it is pinkish bone-colour), line of knobs on 

 ridge of segment 7 golden, a golden spot on point of shoulder, a central dorsal 

 one on segments 5 and 6, one behind spiracle of latter segment, one on margin 

 of wing at segment 4-5, one at base of antenna, another on eye, another be- 

 tween eye and thorax, one lateral at hinder margin of thorax and one subdorsal 

 just above it, one or two on wings of which the one near outer centre is 

 constant : a few black marks running out obliquely from cremaster ventrally. 

 L. 22'5mm.. B. 10"7mm. = H.. both at segment 7 ; H. at thorax-apex, 5mm. ; 

 B. at shoulders, 7mm. ; B. at front of head, 4mm. (vhle PI. I. fig. 8«). 



Habits. — The habits of laying the egg singly on the undersitle of 

 a leaf and of the larva are the same as for the preceding species. The 

 imago keeps much to wooded country and hedges around villages 

 where its chief foodplant, Dregea voliihilis, Benth., a climbing Ascle- 

 piad, with large heart-shaped or oval leaves, green drooping umbels 

 of flowers and watery juice, is found and around which the butteriiy 

 may commonly be seen flying. The plant is very common but loses 

 its leaves during the dry weather. The insect exists throughout India 

 and Burma and beyond as far as Siam and China. The larva has 

 been found on other plants of the order Asclepiadece also besides the 

 one mentioned : Calotropis, Ho7ja, for example. It is chiefly a 

 monsoon species. 



5. Danais aglea, Cramer. (PI. E fig. 32). — Male and female : iiiyperside 

 black-brown with»subhyaline bluish-white streaks and spots : the forewing has 

 a short streak from base along inner margin, two longer and thicker ones, 



