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flattened fruits dividing up into 3 or 4 parts from the centre, Both 

 these species are distributed throughout India in the hills. 



47' Rahinda hordonia, S/!o?Z (Plate C, fig. 13 and fig. 11).— Male and 

 female upimrskle black with orange markings. Forewing : discoidal streak 

 broad, anteriorly twice indented, at apex extending into base of interspace ,-> ; 

 posterior discal spots coalescent, forming an irregular oblique .short, broad band; 

 anterior spots also coalescent, oblique from costa ; a postdiscal, obscure, grey, 

 bicurved, transverse line and a very slender, also obscure, transverse subterminal 

 line. Hindwing : a subbasal transverse broad band and a much narrower post- 

 discal band ciirved inwards at the ends; beyond this the black terminal margin 

 is traversed by a still blacker subterminal line. Underside chestnut-brown, 

 covered with short, slender transverse brown stiiag on the margin of the 

 orange markings which are similar to those on the upperside but broader, 

 paler and less clearly defined. Forewing : the pale transverse postdiscal and 

 orange subterminal lines of the upperside replaced by a postdiscal lilacine 

 narrow band, defined by somewhat crenulate chestnut-brown lines on either 

 side and a pale subterminal line. Hindwing : the base suffused with lilacine ; 

 the subbasal and postdiscal bands bordered outwardly by narrow lilacine 

 bands, the orange-yellow of the postdiscal band much obscured by the trans- 

 verse brown striae ; the terminal margin with a sinuous, obscure, broad, lila- 

 cine line. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen black ; beneath, the palpi and 

 thorax greyish, abdomen ochraceous In the dry-season form the markings 

 are similar, but very much broader ; on the ^ipperside of the forewing the 

 postdiscal line generally and the subterminal line always clearly defined, the 

 former, sometimes, like the latter, orange-yellow. Underside paler, blurred, 

 the transverse short brown striae in many specimens covering nearly the 

 whole surface of the wings. Exp. 38-54mm. 



The orange of the coloured figure is not bright enough, the black not deep 

 enough. 



Egg. — It is shaped like a sea-urchin but is higher than broad ; the surface is 

 covered with rows of hexagonal cells with their bottoms concave and shiny, 

 each angle of each cell bearing an erect, minute, colourless spine ; there is a 

 small round depression on the top round which there are 7 of the hexagonal 

 cells, and there are 7 rows between it and the base of the egg. Colour azure- 

 blue. B : about O. 8mm. 



Larva. — The body is more or less cylindrical but somewhat thickest at 

 middle ; there are small fleshy, short, conical tubercles dorso-laterally on seg- 

 ments .-!, 4, 6 and 1 2 ; the colour is grey -green with dark green diagonal markings. 

 The head is triangular, the apex rounded ; the clypeus small, triangular ; dull 

 olive-green in colour with a whitish cheek-stripe ; the surface covered with 

 little white tubercles bearing each a very short hair. The body surface is dull 

 and covered all over, as well as the belly, with tiny white tubercles bearing 

 each a short hair ; the anal segments have a few short, erect, reddish hairs. 

 Anal flap with. tumid extremity, triangular in shape. The first pair of dorso- 



