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The present species appears to be known only from Java, where it is 

 apparently not common. According to Fruhstorfer the 9, which is unknown 

 to me, has also white transverse lines on the upper side of the fore-wings. 



4. Manthara Feld. (PI. XVI, fig. 45^', 45*5, 45^, 45^'). 



Felder, Novara, Lep., />. 497, No. 861 (1867) .... Debis Manthara. 

 BuiLER, Anil. Mag. Nat. Hist., so: III, 20, /. 403, //. 9, 



fig. 9 c? (1867) Lethe Mekara. 



Moore, Lep. Ind., I, />. 244, //. 79, ^V. i, i^, b (1892) . Debis „ 



Bingham, Fauna Brit. Ind., I /. 95 (1905) Lethe „ 



Fruhstorfer, (Sehz, Grossschm. d. Erde), p. 320, //. 98*? 



(191 1) „ Manthara. 



W. J. Buitenzorg (265); Salak mountains (780) ; Megamendoung mountains 

 (1480) ; prov. Prayangan (+ 1500) ; vicinity of the Pelabouan Ratou or Wijnkoops 

 Bay (+ 150). 



C. J. ? 



E. J. Banyouwangy. 



The orange colour on the upper side of the hind-wings of the c? is frequently 

 faded to a dirty yellow and in some specimens the white transverse bands on the 

 upper side of the fore-wings of the 9 are very indistinct or may be entirely wanting. 



From Java I possess two d whose underside is much darker than in the 

 other specimens and evidently differing from them. Otherwise the individuals 

 from Java do not deviate much from the Indian specimens figured by Moore. 



The larva, which lives on young bamboo leaves, in appearance much 

 resembles that of D. Minerva F. It is grass-green in colour, covered with 

 many white or yellowish dots, with a white band at the ventral margin and 

 two or even four yellow dorsal lines between which, in the full-grown larva, 

 yellow markings pas.sing into brown, occur. The head is furnished with two 

 long projections, yellow at the base, passing into rose and with a black apex. 

 They are very dark in colour on the under side. The hinder portion of the 

 body also terminates in two long granulated projections which lie closely 

 appressed or with their apices crossed. On one occasion I found a loam- 

 coloured caterpillar which, however, sickened and ultimately died. From a 

 pupa of 2^'"^ April the imago emerged on May 4''', one of 26''^ April produced 

 the perfect insect on May s'"", while another of 5"" May completed is meta- 

 morphosis on the 1 2''' of the same month. 



