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in the apical third which are greenish olive-brown, the spaces between 

 them silvery white. Hind wing pale ochreous suffused over the basal 

 half with olive-brown with three irregular lines of silvery white spots 

 more or less outlined with black; a fourth row of silvery spots beyond 

 the olive area. Outer area of the wing with the black spots of the 

 upperside represented by olive ones, sometimes with silvery centres. 



Female. — Spots as in the male, but the ground colour much less 

 bright and the apical third of the forewing suffused with bluish black. 

 The spaces between the spots in this area whitish and forming a more 

 or less continuous white subapical band. 



Hindwing as in the male, but the marginal bluish suffusion more 

 pronounced. 



Underside as in the male, except for the presence of the white band 

 as on the upperside of the forewing preceded by a bluish-black suffusion. 



Distribution. — Ceylon, Malabar, the Himalayas, Assam, Burma. 



Expanse 2f '' and 3". 



The species, A. castetsi, Ober, mentioned above appears to be 

 confined to the Palni Hills and resembles A. hyperbius very closely 

 in the male, but the wings are shorter and more rounded, and the 

 coloration much brighter, particularly on the underside where the base 

 of the fore wings is pinkish and the olive- brown markings much 

 greener. 



The female, however, is very distinct from that sex of A. hyperbius, 

 being similar to the male, but with the ground paler, the spots larger, 

 and the basal two-thirds of both wings suffused with greenish. 



There is a variety of A. hyperbius found in the Nilgiri Hills which 

 is apparently intermediate between the two species. 



Genus Junonia. 



The Genus Junonia includes six Indian species, five of which are 

 common all over the country and are figured on our plate. The sixth, 

 J. atlites, L., though it does not occur in the Konkan or nearer Bombay 

 than Goa is yet found in all the other forest regions of the Peninsula. 

 The species although differing very much in colour are all so obviously 

 allied in general form and habit that the beginner should have no 

 difficulty in grouping them together at once. Messrs. Aitken, Bell, and 

 Davidson wrote of them in the Journal some years ago : " We have 

 reared all our Junonias and cannot ordinarily tell the larv?e and pupae 

 from one another. . . . They all feed on acanthads." 



