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number oC ])lunts of the family Acanthacecp which is an order confined 

 to the Tro]>:GS and containing some species which grow in great 

 profusion where they exist, sometimes covering the ground lor miles 

 and miles with a dense growth of plants fifteen feet high and more 

 (StrjhUanlhes callosvs ixud others of the (Ti^^us) in the hilly parts of 

 India, Some of the species upon which the caterpillar has heen 

 found are Str,)/>Uant/ies callosm, Nees. ; Jnsticia m/crantha, Heyne : 

 Asteracardh'i longifidia, Nees., &c. The distribution is given as 

 throu<'h'iut Indian limits, extending to China and Sumatra. 



S3. Junonta Itfmonlas, /-?«»«■ (Plate A, fig. 3). — Male and female wper- 

 gide olive-brown. Foiewing with four sinuous, short, black transverse bars 

 across cell-area, the outermost defining the discocellulars ; the space 

 between the middle pair of these bais, two spots bejond the apex of the 

 ceil, an outwardly angulated, sinuous, discal series of spots, a pcstdiscal 

 interrupted seri s of similar spots, yellowish or light ochracecus ; aho an 

 ochraceous inner, subterminal, anieiiorl;^' broken line, ii;wardly margined with 

 dark brown ; a large discal black blue-centred, reddish ringed ocellus and a 

 much smaller, very obscure, brown, subapical ocellus between the discal and 

 postdiscal series of spots; finally a daik brown terminal line fullcwiigthe 

 outline of the margin. Hindwing with a slender black loop in the apex of 

 celi-aiea, a large ocellus similar to the diecal one of the fore wing ac oss 

 interspaces 4. 5 and (>. often with its outer lings enclosing a much smaller ill- 

 formed ocellus anteriorly ; postdiscal, subterminal and teiminal dark brown 

 somewhat lunular lines. Underaide- in the weNS' «so?t /oJ"n« othraceous bicwn. 

 Forewing: basal half crossed by three broad, pale, dark edged, sinuous bands, 

 beyond which the angulated discal, the postdiscal, subterminal and 

 terminal markings of the upperside show faintly through ; the discal ocellus 

 as on the uppeiside but not so clearly defined and without the blue centre. 

 Hindwing with three or four sinuous, ill-defined, band-like, pale niarkings on 

 the basal half, the outer faint bands coalescing ; followed by a postdiscal dark 

 broad band traversed by a row of minute dots interrupted by two large black 

 ocellar spots, and a faint subterminal, lunular, brownish line. In the dry newon 

 form the ground-colour is ochraceous yellow, often ochiaceous red, the mark- 

 ings more obscure, the two laige black ocellar spots reduced to the size of the 

 others in the row. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown ; 

 beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen pale dull ochraceous. Exp. 5()-G2mm. 



V^wroa.— The shape and airangement of opines is the same as that of J. ijdiita 

 exactly. The head is bilobed, roundish, with the sides more or less parallel to 

 each other ; shiny metallic dark blue in colour with a stout sLoit tuLeicle 

 on vertex of each lobe. The colour of body is pale black with a det ptr black 

 dorsal line; there is no subspiracular line ;all the tubercles or pedicels of spines 

 are mstallic blue, the spinules dark ; the two tubercles or spines in front of 

 spiracles of segment -^ are red-yellow as is also the neck. Surface of body 



