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anterior, is longer than the same and curves into the dorsal abdominal 

 carina behind, this carina soon merging into the dorsal surface: thus making 

 the abdomen appear somewhat lateially compressed ; the abdomen is slightly 

 curved, decreasing gradually in diameter fiom f^egment 8 to end ; the cremaster 

 and segment 14 are flattened doi sally and venti-ally and curved with a 

 depressed elliptically shaped surface dorsally, at the extremity of which are 

 fixed the little booklets for suspension ; the ventral line is 8iiai£ht from 

 head to segment 12 ; wing surfaces meet at a very obtuse angle and their 

 dorsal edges are expanded very slightly from shoulders to segment 7, commenc- 

 ing gradually ; the body is thickest at middle of thorax. Body suiface more 

 or less smo'ith, slightly shiny. Spiiacles not small, oval, ordinary. C< lour of 

 body is an olivaceous brown grey, finely veined darker ; sometimes red-brown. 

 L : 22mm, over all : of head-process : 4mm. ; B : 5mm. 



Habits — The little egg-larva opens the cap and emerges ; does not 

 eat the egg-shell and lives on the underside of the leaf in much the 

 same manner as the larvae of Atliyma or Moduza, i. e., it eats the leaf 

 along the midrib at the tip generally, but sometimes along a side-rib 

 from the edge inwards. The egg is, by the way, nearly always 

 deposited on the underside of a young leaf. The larva does not always 

 lie on the free rib thus left, though it sometimes does so ; it eats 

 voraciously, and therefore grows rapidly. The pupa is formed 

 under a leaf or suspended from a staik or twig, hangs perpendicularly 

 down and is strongly attached. The trees chosen for laying are 

 large trees in young leaf as a very general rule, and the larva eats 

 young leaves only. The places chosen are fairly damp, airy locali- 

 ties in the jungles, generally in more or less open spots, that is, where 

 the jungle is not too thick, in fact, in such spots as are favourable to 

 the growth of the foodplants. The perfect insect flies mostly with 

 it? wings horizontally stretched keeping them in this position for a 

 longer time between strokes than any other butterfly we know ; 

 it is a somewhat frail insect, rather weak of flight, though quick 

 enough on the wing to escape or avoid capture with a certain ease, 

 and invaiiably rests with its wings widespread. It flies very high 

 at times and may be seen round the tops of very tall trees ; but the 

 flight is not sustained, indeed it may be said never to fly !ar. It rests 

 on the tops of leaves in the day-time, and is fond of the checkered 

 shade on sunny days; it often comes to the ground on roads, paths and 

 in beds of nalas to suck moisture in hot weather and is occasionally 

 found at flowers. The butterfly is not found in the plains, but exists 



