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there with a thick carpet of silk ; over this carpet it weaves a network 

 of silk free from the bed beneath, a sort of hammock across the some- 

 what doubled leaf and rests thereon with its face turned down in the 

 same plane as ventrum, so that the horns are directed out in front and 

 rest on the subtending web-surface also. When about to pupate the 

 larva wanders, finishing up on the under surface of some leaf, where 

 it undergoes the transformation. The pupa is stoutly and rigidly 

 attached by the tail so that the ventral surface is nearly parallel to the 

 leaf. The imago is a jungle butterfly confined to the hills but is found 

 on the sea-coast in the South Konkan wherever the foodplant exists : 

 at least the female is, though rarely ; the males bask on the tops of 

 high trees on the hill-tops with the wings slightly opened and have a 

 fluttering flight like the day-flying Zygcenidce. The females fly like 

 danaines which they resemble very much. Euripus is an uncommon 

 insect but may occur anywhere along the Western Ghats for the food- 

 plant of its larva comes up in freshly cut forest clearing wherever the 

 rainfall is not deficient. This foodplant is Trema oriental/s, Blume, of 

 the family Urticacece, an extremely rapidly growing plant, reaching 

 the state of a small tree, the wood extremely soft, useless, the leaf like 

 the leaf of a nettle, the young shoots rosy red, the foliage somewhat 

 scant. The insect occurs in the Himalayas from Sikhim to Kumaon ; 

 in Southern India ; Assam, Burma, Tenasserim. 



Euripis consists of 2 species extending from Sikhim eastward 

 through Assam, Burma, and Tenasserim to China and southward to 



the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 



40. Dophla laudabilis, Sirinh. — Male wppers/rf^ dark metallic green, some- 

 times with a yellowish tint in the cold weather or in old specimens ; cell with 

 two median sinuous, short black lines across it with a crimson spot between 

 them ; two similar lines beyond on each side of discocellulars, followed by a 

 dark irregular transverse shading between the veins ; beyond this the costa is 

 broadly greyish white with a silvery lustre up to just before apex of the wing, 

 spreading down diffusely but not extending below vein 6 ; apex and termeii 

 obscurely dark. Hindwing : a slender black loop in cell and a very obscure 

 discal and subterminal macular dark band. Underside sap-green, suffused 

 thickly with plumbeous-grey. Forewing : the transverse black slender lines and 

 crimson spot as on the upper side ; a very obscure subterminal series of dark 

 spots parallel to terminal margin. Hindwing : three crimson spots encircled 

 by slender black loops near base and a very obscure subterminal series of dark 

 spots in continuation of that on the forewing, but obsolescent posteriorly. 

 Antennae brown ; head with a crimson streak behind the eyes : thorax and 



