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submarginal spots, being pale dull ochreous, the spots sometimes being almost white. 
Underside much paler than in the male, but marked the same. 
Expanse, ¢ 2,8 to 3,4, 2 3,% to 3,5 inches. 
Aputt CaTrrPittar.—< Fusiform, slender, transversely rugose and clothed with 
short stout bristles just visible to the naked eye; head large, surmounted by two 
stout, straight processes, sloping backwards, which are slightly branched at their 
end ; a pair of long straight caudal processes, setose like the body; colour of the 
body bright green, with two dorsal and two lateral longitudinal yellow lines, more 
or less distinct, and a subdorsal row—one on each side—of large yellow spots tinged 
with pink and sometimes tipt with black; head dark brown, with a yellow cheek 
stripe and frontal line. Feeds on Palmacex (Cocoanut and Betel-nut Palms).” 
Curysatis.—‘‘ Suspended by the tail only, but in a rigidly horizontal position ; 
regular, with the exception of two small pointed processes from the head and an 
acute thoracic process above them; colour bright green, ornamented with four 
irregular rows of large yellow spots bordered with red” (Davidson and Aitken, 
l..c. 268). 
Hasirat.—South India. 
Distripotion.— This has only been found in the South of Peninsular India. 
Mr. H. 8. Fergusson took both sexes on the Ashamboo Hills, Travancore, where it 
is fairly common in April and May. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has it from 
Calicut, the Wynaad, and the Kadur District in Mysore” (Butt. Ind. 271). We 
have several specimens, from Calicut and the Wynaad, Malabar, captured by the 
late Dr. Bayne Reed, and from the Nilgiris. Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng. 
1888, 351) records it as being “rare in the Bamboo jungles at the foot of the 
Northern and Western Slopes of the Nilgiris.’’ Messrs. Davidson and Aitken 
(Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 268) obtained the larvee and several pup on 
the Cocoanut and Betel-nut palms, in October. The late Mr. 8. N. Ward obtained 
the type specimens at Calicut, and “found the larvae feeding on the Soopari, 
(Areca-nut Palm) in September, October and December, both above and below the 
Ghats ’’ (MS. Notes). 
Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 135, fig. 1 is a copy of Mr. 8. N. 
Ward’s drawing of the larva and pupa; fig. la, a reproduction of Mr. Aitken’s 
figure in the Journal Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, and figs. 1b, ec, d, the male 
and female. 
ELYMNIAS COTTONIS (Plate 136, figs. 1, la, b, ¢ 2). 
Melanitis Cottonis, Hewitson, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1874, p. 358. 
Elymnias Cottonis, Moore, Proc. Gool. Soc. 1877, p. 583. Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, Journ. 
Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 245. Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, etc. i. p. 268 
(1883). 
