60 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
above. Hindwing with six minute ocelli, which are generally well-defined and silvery- 
white pupilled. 
Female. Upperside as in wet-season brood. Underside as in male dry-season 
brood. 
Expanse, 1,5, to 1; inches. 
Apu CaTerPituar.— One inch in length. Body more compressed than in 
Y. Hiibneri, and flattened to a ridge line below the spiracles. Head rounded. 
Second segment a little larger than the head, third and fourth segments gradually 
increasing to the fifth, then very gradually decreasing to the anal segment, which is 
furnished with two very small immovable pointed processes or tails. Colour reddish- 
ochreous throughout, with an indistinct darker dorsal line, two narrow subdorsal 
lines, and several other very narrow lines placed very close together in the spiracular 
region above the lateral ridge; there is also a subdorsal series of about eight short 
oblique streaks. Head and body throughout also shagreened, being covered with 
small tubercles bearig very fine short hairs.” 
Curysatis.—* The pupa is either pale ochreous with darker ochreous and brown 
markings, or pale green with dark brown markings. It is very narrow, the thorax 
longitudinally humped above, with another ridge just before the abdominal segments 
placed transversely.’ (de Nicéville.) 
Haprrat.—India; Burma; Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; Borneo. 
Rearing or Wur anp Dry Season Broop rrom tHe Eoac.—Mr. L. de Nicéville 
(Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1886, 234) gives the first recorded instance of 
rearing, in Calcutta, both the wet and dry season brood of this insect from the egg, 
as follows :—‘‘ On September 10th Captain Sage sent me a tin box, with net cover, 
containing several females of Y. philomela [Baldus]. The insects had laid numerous 
eggs on the net, which differ considerably in colour from those of Y. Hubneri, bemg 
at once distinguishable by the naked eye. On September 14th two larvee emerged. 
On September 18th eighteen more emerged, and I placed all the young caterpillars in 
a stoppered glass jar on the same grass as that which was used for Y. Hiibneri. The 
larvee are at first exceedingly small, pinkish-white in colour, hairy, and with a pinkish 
head. When full-grown, they are a full inch in length, rather larger therefore than Y. 
Hiibneri, reddish-ochreous coloured throughout ; the head and body throughout are 
shagreened, being covered with small tubercles bearing very fine short hairs [for full 
. description see above]. On October 8th, one larvae ; on October 9th, seven larvee ; on 
October 10th, two larvee; and on October 11th, one larva changed to a pupa. On 
October 17th three females emerged ; on October 19th, two males and one female; 
on October 23rd, two females, and on October 24th, one female emerged ; and two 
larve died. All these butterflies proved to be true Y. philomela {Baldus] like their 
female parent. 
‘“On my return from Darjiling, on November 8th, Captain Sage gave me eight 
