CfhUMOX liUTTKHFLlLS OF THE I'LAJXS OF 1N1>1A. GG3 



37. Bulepis Schreiberi, 6?o«Zar<.— Male : upperslde black glossed indigo 

 ■blue or light green at base of wings. Fore and hindwing with a ])r(i;id white 

 •discal fascia from interspace 4 of forewing to just below apex of nudian vein 

 in hindwing where it narrows to a point. On the outer side on Imth wings 

 this fascia has an irregular border of smalt-blue which is narrowest antcriorily 

 oa both wings broadening out posteriorily. A white rectangular spot in inter- 

 space f) of forewing and white speck above it. Hindwing : a subterminal row 

 of small white dots, a terminal row of deep ochraceons spots and some smalt- 

 blue markings on the tails and margins near the tornal angle. Underside pearly 

 white, broadly brownish pink along the dorsal margin of the hindwing. Fore- 

 wing : two black spots at base of cell : a broad olive-green band edged on both 

 sides with black, followed by a discal bluish-white band as on the upperside and 

 beyond it by a transverse series of black lunules placed on a purplish ground ; 

 a hinule in interspace 1 half obliterated by a large black spot : apex and 

 terminal margin broadly olive-green. Hindwing: abroad black edged trans- 

 verse olive-green band in continuation of that on the forewing, terminating 

 on vein 1, followed by a discal, broad, posteriorily narrowing white fascia 

 as on upperside. Beyond this a postdiscal series of deep Indian-red lunules, 

 placed on an olive-green ground and margined inwardly by a broad interrupted 

 black line ; finally a subterminal narrow green band and terminal ochraceous 

 lunules. Tails black, touched with smalt-blue ; above tornal angle a black line 

 from vein 1 to dorsum. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black ; thorax 

 and abdomen on the sides and beneath whitish. Female differs very slightly 

 from the male : can be distinguished by the greater width of the discal fascia, 

 also by the two spots above it being joined to it and larger ; by superior size 

 and by the tails being somewhat broader and slightly less pointed. Exp. 



92—116 mm. 



Larva (r/cZe PI. I., fig. 4.) — The larva emerges from the egg about the 7th 

 day after it has been laid. The horns of the head are soft, l)ent down and 

 somewhat stunted looking but soon become erect and hard. The little cater- 

 pillar proceeds at once to make a meal of the egg-shell and then lies quiescent 

 on the leaf for some hours before commencing to feed on the edge. It is at 

 ■first of an olive green-brown colour with what seems, to the naked eye, a 

 lateral row of minute white dots, one to each segment ; but which are really 

 little light-coloured tubercles each surmounted by a minute hair : these are the 

 dorso-lateral tubercles ; the subdorsal and pupraspiraeular ones are also there 

 but are at this stage coloured like the larva. The head is large with four well- 

 developed horns as in the adult but slightly longer comparatively and supplied 

 with the same tynes as in the adult as well as the two points on head-vertex 

 between the middle pair and another between each middle and lateral horn ; 

 the colour of head is dark red-brown with the lower part of the face orange- 

 brown. The tail points are as in the adult but they are longer and red-brown 

 in colour ; the shape of the anal segment is the same also ; segment 13 is 

 large and distinct ; segment 12 has a lateral large shiny swelling: the spiracle. 



