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Genus— EUTHALIA. 



A. Colour dark brown with a broad grey margin 



to hindwing, the female paler. Exp. 2-75" — 3'1" lepidea. 



B. Colour deep brownish-green with crimson and 



white markings, the white in the female be- 

 ing a broad transverse discal band on fore- 

 wing from middle of costa to tornal angle. 

 Exp. 2-7"— 3-3" luhentine. 



C. Colour olivaceous brown or green (in fresh 



specimens) with no crimson on upperside. Exp. 



2-6"— 3-1" garuda. 



D. Colour tawny with black markings. Exp. 2'20"— 



2"75" , nais^ 



E. lepidea is not to be met with in the plains. It may possibly 

 be obtained along the hills in Thana. The foodplant of its larvse is 

 commonly Butea frondosa, Roxb., known as " Flame of the Forest." 

 Another foodplant is Melastoma malabathricum, L. 



Genus— MODUZA. 



Only one species. Exp. 2*5" — 3" procris. 



Is a hill species affecting jungles. May possibly be met with in 

 Thana along the hills. The larva feeds upon the rubiaceous Wend- 

 tandia exserta, D. C, Mussoenda frondosa, L., the common scandent 

 shrub, a semi-creeper, with little orange-red tubular flowers and 

 large, pure white calyx-leaf and the large tree Stephegyne parvifolia, 

 Korth. 



Genus— ATHYMA. 



Only one species. Exp. 2-4" — 3" ,..., perius. 



Will occur everywhere except in desert places such as Sind. It 

 much resembles a J^eptis in flight and facies but is stronger and 

 larger. The genus Pantoporia -very closely allied, has three species, 

 occurring in the Western Ghats : P. inara with the male banded 

 black and white and a blur of red at apex offorewing on upperside, 

 the female banded tawny and black like a Rahinda ; P. ranga with 

 both sexes banded black and white and the eyes hairy ; P. selenophora. 

 with both sexes black, banded with white, the underside chestnut-red 

 and white while in P. ranga it is dark-brown, black and white. 



Genus— RAHINDA. 



Only one species. Exp. 1*5" — 2'1'' hordoma. 



Found nearly everywhere in India. The larva feeds upon climb- 

 ing Acacia of different species. 



