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of segments 10 to 14 rest against the stalk, curving its head up 

 forwards again so that its body takes the curves of the letter S. 

 The pupa thus rests with its back against the surface very generally : 

 in which particular (as well as in shape) it resembles Discophora 

 lepida of the Mo7'phina>. The pupa is generally found low down 

 near the earthy very often nearly touching the earth. The butterfly 

 is confined to South India and Ceylon where it is generally found 

 in the hills and jungles, but frequents rice-fields commonly where 

 it occurs, and is probably the weakest flier of all the Satyrines 

 it flutters very near to the ground and always settles with its wings 

 closed. 



29. Elymnias undularis, Dmr?/.— Male : upperside blackish-brown. Fore- 

 wing with a subterminal series of blue or sometimes slightly green elongate 

 spots, curving strongly inwards and getting more elongate opposite apex, 

 forming almost an oblique bar up to the costa. Hindwing ; the terminal 

 margin broadly bright chestnut, sometimes with a subterminal paler spot in 

 two or more of the interspaces. Underside pale brown, the basal two-thirds 

 of both wings densely, the outer third more sparsely covered with dark 

 ferruginous, somewhat broad, transverse strise. Forewing with a broadly 

 triangular pale purplish-white preapical mark ; both wings with a broad 

 subterminal area purplish white. Hindwing with a small white spot opposite 

 middle of the costa and a more or less complete series of more obscure 

 whitish subterminal spots. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown ; 

 abdomen paler beneath. Female : upperside tawny, veins black. Forewing : 

 the dorsal margin broadly black ; the apical area beyond a line curving from 

 the tornus round apex of cell and a little beyond it to the base of the costa, 

 also black, the wing crossed preapically by a conspicuous, broad, oblique, 

 white bar and three subterminal white spots. Hindwing : dorsal margin 

 dusky ; terminal broadly, costal margin more narrowly black ; a subterminal 

 series of four white spots. Underside tawny with markings similar to those 

 in the male ; the pale whitish markings more extensive ; the dorsal margin 

 broadly without striae. Exp. 72-86mm. 



Larva. — The larva is described by Moore as being " elongate, fusiform, 

 setose ; green with longitudinal dorsal and lateral yellow lines and a subdorsal 

 row of yellow elongate spots centered with red and posteriorly edged with 

 blue ; head brownish, armed with two erect brownish setose processes ; anal 

 segment also with two red slender hindward projecting processes." 



The pupa is " similar to E. cuudaia.'' 



Habiti^. — The habits of the insect in laying are not known but 

 are not likely to be different from those of the succeeding species ; 

 those of the larva and pupa are also probably the same. The 

 butterfly is distributed in the Himalayas from Mussoorie to Bhutan-; 



