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where the carina is developed into a blunt, laterally compressed point, the 

 extremity of the point being perpendicularly over the segment-margin 2-3; the 

 thorax is short, the dorsal line of the pupa from this point to front of head 

 being nearly perpendicular to longitudinal axis. Wings expanded slightly 

 parallel to the longitudinal axis of budy so that the pupa is of the same 

 breadth from shoulders to segment 8 ; the shoulders are angulate. Segment 

 4 carinated also in dorsal line slightly. Abdomen stout, trausveise section 

 from segment 6 to 13 is circular. Cremaster triangular, the extremity truncat- 

 ed, set with the preceding segment nearly at right angles to rest of pupa. 

 The colour of pupa is bright velvety grass-green, carina on segments 2, 3 and 4 

 is yellow ; head-processes white with a dorsal blaci line ; just behind, on base 

 of antenna is a dark rose-coloured short line surrounded by yellow with a small 

 yellow spot in front of it ; apex of thoracic carina marked with rose on each 

 side and there is a lateral spot, yellow touched with rose, on thorax ; dorsal 

 margin of wings more or less broadly yellow ; the shoulders tipped rose ; about 

 the centre of dorsal wing-margin is a rose line and a black mark with white 

 centre outside it on segment 5 ; in the tornal angle of wing ii a yellow blotch 

 including a rose-coloured spot centred black with a white pupil ; segment 4 

 has a yellow rose-centred spot in its anterior angles; there is a subdorsal 

 row of rose and yellow spots on segments 6-10, that on segment 8 having a 

 black centre ; a lateral spot, similar, on segments 8-10 ; on segment 13 a 

 subdorsal spot on front margin, black and yellow ; two black spots at base 

 of cremaster and one on each side of ventral line of segment 13. L. 22mm.; 

 B. 6mm.; L. of head-points, included in total length about l'5mm. 



Habits. — The egg is laid on the underside of a leaf of a palm in 

 a cool place, in the bed of a nalla or on the side of one, or in ever- 

 green jungle for preference. The larva lies full-stretched on the 

 underside of the leaf all its life with it? ventrum clo.sely applied to the 

 surface. Owing to its bright colours it is not difficult ta see. Before 

 turning into a pupa it very often lies with its head turned round on 

 its side and generally pupates on the last leaf it has been eating, on 

 the underside, where the pupa is attached very firmly, sometimes 

 fixed so that its longitudinal axis is parallel to the leaf surface, the 

 cremaster being formed to help this in being longer at the extremity 

 than broad, laterally compressed, that is ; the pupa is also a con- 

 spicuous object like the larva and would be very easy to find were it 

 not that it is generally near the ground in a dark or very shady 

 place on the underside of a drooping leaf. The butterfly fiequents 

 such places and is never found in the open, venturing at most on to 

 the borders of small clearings in its native jungles. The male is 

 fond of sitting on a leaf about ten or twelve feet off" the ground, 



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