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Mahableshwar, Kanara and the Nilgiris ; also from Sikhim, Bhutan, 

 throu<rh tho hills of Assam, Burmah and Tenasserim to the Malay 

 Peninsula, Siam and Sumatra. It will not be found in the true Plains. 



50 Nt-pt s jumbah, Mocre. — Male and female similar to N.coiumt-.Ua, but 

 with the following difleiences : — I j)2urHi(le fuliginous black, the inteispaces 

 between the veins deeper blaok, veiy conspicuous in certain lights, particularly 

 so between the subbasal and postdiscal mai kings on the hindwing ; the white 

 markings suiiused with very pale bluish gi-een ; the posterior two spo a of the 

 discal series of the forewing subeiiual ; the postdiscal mactilar band on the 

 hindwing with a tendency to obsolescence, vaiying from a nairow seiies of 

 white lunules to a somewhat diffuse, transverse, narrow pale band. On the under- 

 ^de the ground-colour is paler than in A', culumella, the interspaces between the 

 veins conspicuously much darker; the postdiscal and subterminal markings on 

 both fore and hindwings diffuse and very ill defined . In the female the spots on 

 the forewing and the subbasal band on the hindwing are compaiatively 

 broader than they are in the male; in the dry .-cason/orm of both sexes, as 

 compared with the witse'ison form often conspicuously broader. Anteijnae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen as in A', colume la. Exp. 62-70mm. 



Egg. — The form is dome-shaped, b.oadest just above the base ; there is a 

 six-sided depression in centre of top surrounded by seven similar six-sided 

 depressions and ther*^ are six rows of such depressions from top to base not 

 counting the cential top one ; the walls of these pits are thin and there is a 

 thin, short fine spine at each intersection : otherwise at each angle of depres- 

 sion ; the bottoms of the pits are concave, shiny and smooth. The colour of 

 the egg is gieen. The breadth is 1*1 mm., equal to the height. 



Larvit. — The body is the same shape as that of JS'epHs eurynome, exactlj in 

 every particular, that is, thickest in the middle, though appearing to be thickest 

 about segment 4, where the longest pair- of excrescences are. Head is trapeze- 

 shaped seen from in front, the vertex being the shortest side, the lateml lines 

 the longest ; the basal line across jaws is slightly curved ; the vertex is triangu- 

 larly indented, each lobe having a short pointed tubercle on the vertex ; the 

 surface is set with small, shortly-setiferous tubercles ; the colour is red-brown, a 

 dark-brown check-stripe, with a similar line down centre of face splitting down 

 the sides of clypeus. Segment 2 is a good deal narrower than head, and lower. 

 Segment 8 is laiger in diameter than segment 2, similar, but with a well-defined 

 dorsal central ridge, ending in a small dorsolateral, brushy, fleshy tubercle or 

 process, running across it at right angles to the body-axis, the ridge being as long 

 as the larva is broad at that point. Segment 4 has a similar ridge which, however, 

 is a great deal moie developed and ends at each side in along, fleshy, anteriorly 

 and posteiiorly compressed process which is shortly haired at tip: these processes 

 curve at fi st out and then towards each other like a pair of horns, and are as 

 long as the breadth of the body at the point where they are situated. Segment 

 5 has no processes or ridge. Segment 6 has a ridge pan^llel to those of segments 



