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not bask on the tops of trees though they are found so doing down in 

 the shade near the ground or even on the ground with their wings 

 generally opened wide, and the females do Hkewise though they are 

 not nearly so often seen; they both visit fruits and saps when thirsty 

 but not flowers. D. laudahilis is confined to South India but is very 

 like D. evelina, Stoll from Ceylon. Its foodplants are Z). Caiulolleana, 

 Wight, Diospyros melanoxylon, Roxb., both Ebonies ; or even 

 Anacardium occidautale, L., the Cashew-nut tree. The pupa is formed 

 on the underside of a leaf of the tree or in the neighbourhood. The 

 genus Dophla is Indo-Malayan. 



41- Euthalia lepidea, Buthr (text-fig. 14). — Male and female upperside dark 

 brown, paler in the female, Tvith very obscure black markings of transverse 

 lines across cell of both wings and an oblique discal fascia on the forewing ; 

 an ash-grey continous band along the termen of both 'wings, gradually broad- 

 ening from apex of forewing where it is very narrow to tornus of hindwing 

 where it covers one-third of the wing : cilia white ; in the female there is a 

 narrow brown terminal border. Underside: male ochraceous brown, female 

 bright ochraceous ; the colours paler on the hindwing ; the forewing some- 

 what narrowly, the hindwing much more broadly suffused with lilacine-grey 

 on the terminal margins and along dorsal margin of hindwing ; cells of both 

 wings with dark brown, sinuous, transverse lines and loop-like markings ; both 

 wings crossed by somewhat diffuse broad discal and narrower postdiscal dark 

 bands, prominent on forewing, obscure on hindwing. Male with a patch of 

 specialised scales above vein 4 on upperside of hindwing. Exp. 70-80mm. 



Larva. — The shape is the same as that of Dophla just described, with long 

 feathered processes all round from segments 3-1 2 except that the feathers or 

 spines are finer and somewhat irregular in length, all tipped with light yellow : 

 some spines stick straight up and are completely light yellow in colour ; the 

 body is bluish green with a row of four small tubercles near hinder margin of 

 segments '6 to 11 and parallel to it as also a row of 2-4 about centre of same 

 segments ; some small white spots irregularly disposed on the same segments : 

 ventrum and sides glaucous blue-green ; on segments 5-10 there is a lateral 

 white blotch just behind base of processes from the anterior side of which 

 rises a comparatively longish, white, pointed tubercle ; segment 3 has a small 

 white cross in centre of dorsum and segment 4 has a white dorsal line ; there is 

 a large white mark, more or less suffused with soiled red-brown on segments 

 5-12, pentagonal in shape on segment 5, hexagonal on the other segments, half 

 the breadth of segments and nearly as broad as long ; all the marks have a 

 central blue spot ; a reddish-blue stain on sides of anal segment. L : 40ram. ; 

 60mm. including processes ; B : 7mm.; 32mm. with processes. 



Pupa. — The shape is the same as that of Dophla except that the head points 

 and lateral and apical points of pyramid are slightly less pointed, the former 



