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perhaps shorter comparatively. Spiracles oval, small, light yellow. Colour 

 green, band in centre of segment 7 over apex of pyramid gold, shiny, inter- 

 rupted broadly laterally and narrowly further on by the wing-line, enclosing a 

 spot of ground-colour dorsally ; a large spot dorsally on hinder margin of 

 thorax, a smaller one behind each eye on thorax, a still smaller one on front of 

 strip of hindwing apparent dorsally : all gold ; eye brown. L : 18mm ; B : 

 i2mm. at segment 7. 



Habits. — The habits are much the same as for DopJda also ; the 

 larva lies in the middle of the leaf not far off the ground in shady 

 places in damp jungles in the hills. Pupa attached in the same way 

 to the underside of a leaf, but the larva wanders less. The butterfly 

 has the same flight but is weaker on the wing ; basks in the same way 

 close to the ground, or on the ground ; the female is nearly as 

 plentiful as the male, they are both fond of saps of trees and fruits 

 and shun the full glare of the sun. The insect is found in the Hima- 

 layas from Almora eastward : from Assam to the Malay Peninsula, 

 Orissa, Bengal, Central Provinces, Nilgiris, Kanara in Bombay, 

 Mysore and Tra van core. 



The food-plants of the larva, as fixed up to the present, are Careya 

 arhorea, Roxb., one of the myrtle family, growing to a medium-sized 

 tree, with large obovate leaves, nearly a foot in length, in bunches at 

 the ends of the branches and a round fruit, the size of a small apple, 

 and of a sreen colour : distributed throuohout the Himalayas to 

 Assam and Burma eastwards ; in Bengal, Central, Western and 

 Southern India ; and Melastoma malahathricum, L., the Indian 

 Rhododendron, a small shrub with a red flower, from which it gets its 

 English name and rough strongly-nerved ovate pointed leaves found 

 nearly throughout India in damp regions up to 6,000 ft. altitude ; 

 plentiful in the Konkan along nallas and in the vicinity of evergreen 



forests. 



42. Euthalia lubentina, Oramer.— Male : upper side dark-green, sometimes 

 with a brownish shade. Forewing : a bar across middle, another beyond apex 

 of cell crimson bordered with black : a slightly oblique transverse discal series 

 of small white spots from costa to interspace 1, followed by a preapical curved 

 row of four similar ones and a transverse subterminal series of elongate 

 black spots forming an obscure band. Hindwing : a crescent-shaped black loop 

 near end of cell : a curved post-discal series of four or five crimson spots out- 

 wardly bordered black, the sub-costal the largest, followed by a subterminal 

 series of velvety-black subquadrate spots, the anterior three and the tornal 

 one outwardly crimson. Underside dark purplish-brown, suffused slightly with 



