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whicli it returns after feeding- each time ; in the first stage, 

 immediately on emerging from the Qgg, the two anal points 

 are comparatively very long, curved inwards and slightly upwards to 

 resemble the fine thorns of its food-plant, Wagatea spicata, their 

 length decreasino- with each moult. The larva likes the sun and 

 lies fully exposed to it. The pupa is formed under a leaf affixed to 

 the under-surface or from a stalk, twig, &c. The butterfly is very 

 active, strong on the wing and fond of basking on the tops of trees, 

 ■choosing ver}' generally a dead stick where it sils with its wings 

 •closed, a point of vantage from which to chase pas:sing rivals ; acting 

 very much in the same manner as C/i. imna. It is a butterfly of the 

 plains as much as of forests and hills and is found in the Hima- 

 layas from Chamba to Sikhim, in Oudh, Bhutan, Central Pro- 

 vinces, West and South India, Ceylon, Burma and Tenasserim. 

 The food-plant of the larva is commonly Tamarind, the Tamar'mdus 

 Imlka, L., of the botanists-belonging to the family Leguminosece ; 

 also Waijaiea spkata, Dalz., of the same family. 



36. Euiepis athamas, Z)rar?/ (uirfe PI. D,, fig. ID.) — Male and female iipper- 

 side black. Fore and hindwing with a discal broad transverse area fx'om 

 below vein 4 in forewing to vein 2 on hindwing, a moderately large spot in 

 interspace 5, a minute preapical dot beyond in interspace 6 on forewing and a 

 snbterminal row of spots with a few spots beyond them on the tornal angle of 

 hindwing : pale yellow, sometimes with an ochraceous, sometimes with a green 

 tinge. The discal area of forewing nearly as broad in interspace 3 as on 

 dorsal margin, on hindwing narrowing to a point on vein 2 at two-thirds its 

 length from base. Longish tails touched with bluish grey. Underside with 

 discal yellow area and spot in interspace 5 as on upperside ; base and costal 

 margin of forewing to apex and base and dorsal margin of the hindwing 

 broadly lilacine-brown, with two small black spots in cell on forewing. Border- 

 ing the transverse discal area on the innerside, where it is margined with 

 black lines, and above, is a broad curved chocolate band continued more 

 narrowly along outer margin of discal area ; beyond this on the forewing is a 

 concave series of dusky black lunules ; finally on the hindwing there is a 

 subterminal series of internally white-bordered black spots followed by an 

 obscure ochraceous terminal line and above the tornal angle a slender 

 transverse black line from vein 1 to dorsal margin. — Exp. 64-85 mm. 



Larva. — Body subcylindrical up to anal segment which is flatened on 

 dorsum, square cut at end, the line being however somewhat concave, over- 

 lapping claspers, hardly pointed at corners ; body fattest at middle, head large, 

 segment 2 narrower than it. Head hexagonal seen from in front with 

 slightly convex face and margin set with spines and four horns, the lower 



