118 lUIOPALOCEUA MALAY AN A. 



!^rale. Wings above fuliginous-browu. Anterior wings with the basal half, excluding cell, much 

 darker or fuscous ; cell crossed by five blackish lines, one somewhat oblique near base, the other four in 

 pairs, connected posteriorly, and situate two about centre and two at extremity ; between these lines the 

 colour is much darker ; immediately beneath basal half of cell are some indistinct blackish markings ; 

 at the extremity of the ])asal dark coloration is a curved series of five greyish spots placed between the 

 nervules, the upper three in somewhat oldique series beyond end of cell, divided by the discoidal nervules, 

 the fourth aud lifth curved inwardly and divided by the second median nervule ; two subapical greyish spots, 

 one on each side of the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth subcostal nervules, aud a narrow, waved, dark 

 fuscous submarginal fascia. Posterior wings with the base and a broad curved discal and outwardly 

 dentate fascia, much darker or fuscous ; cell partially crossed by two pairs of blackish lines, looped 

 aud convexly united posteriorly, situate respectively near the centre and extremity ; a submarginal series 

 of small blackish spots placed between the nervules, the extreme outer margin of both wings narrowly 

 fuscous, with the fringe mt)re or less greyish. Wings beneath pale brownish olivaceous, cellular markings as 

 above, but posterior wings possessing a long ovate spot above, aud a smaller spot beneath the base of the 

 first subcostal nervule, aud a curved line on outer side of base of discoidal nervule, continuous to the lower 

 pair of dark lines crossing cell; greyish spots as above, but brighter, and an additional third subapical spot 

 between the discoidal nervules; a narrow dark submarginal fascia to both wings, becoming faint and 

 obsolete on posterior wings towards abdominal margin ; posterior wings with the submarginal spots as 

 above, and the outer margin of anterior wings excluding apex, and apical margin of posterior wings, very 

 pale violaceous. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Larger than the male, wings above paler, the markings as in the other sex, but 

 the submarginal fascia to anterior wings broken and indistinct, and the whole basal half of posterior 

 wings darker ; beneath as in male, but paler, and the submarginal fascise more broken. 



Exp. wings, 3 00 to iu millim. ; $ 76 to 80 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Silhet, Bengal, Oudh, Sind (Brit. Mus.) ; Bombay (Dv. Leith — coll. 

 Dist.) — Ceylon (coll. Moore). — Burma (Brit. Mus.) — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; 

 Malacca (coll. Godm. & Salv., and Brit. Mus.) — Java (Brit. Mus.) 



This is a variable species, the greyish spots ou the upper surface of the anterior wings 

 being frequently obsolete. In all the specimens I have examined the males are darker in hue 

 than the females. 



The larva aud pupa are figured by Horsfield and Moore* from the original drawings by 

 General Hardwicke, and the first has been reproduced here {mite, p. 115, fig. 39). According 

 to the last-named observer, the larva feeds on " Tivpliis as[in-a aud on a species of Briioiiia." ^ 

 According to Mr. A. Grote ]; and the Rev. J. H. Hocking § it feeds upon the mango. || 



■■'■' Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. t. vi. f. '2, 'id. f Ibid. p. 187. | Ibid. 



§ Proc. Zool. Soo. 1882, p. 239. 



Il Auotliei- species of the genus, E. aconthea, is also described by Horsfield as feeding ou the mango (Horsf. & Moore, 

 Cat. l.cp. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 185). Of the mango in Dominica, F. A. Ober makes a curious observation : — '■ The mangoes are 

 bristhng with spikes of blossoms — white with them — but not a bird nor a butterfly is hovering above them, though the 

 surrounding trees and shrubs are alive with them. This is a fact I have long noticed, that the mango is ever deserted" 

 (' Camps in the Caribbees,' p. 21). Now we know that the mango was introduced into the West Indies, and the dramatic 

 circumstances under which plants from Bourbon were first introduced to Jamaica have been graphically described by 

 Sir .Joseph Hooker iLect. to Eoy. Instit. on the ' Distr. of the North Am. Flora,' 1878). But in the East the mango is 

 not deserted by birds aud butterflies, for not only do the Eiithaliads frequent them to deposit the eggs which pmduce 

 the devouring larva', but also — to quote no other author than the pleasant and versatile I'hil. Robinson— there is the 

 "green parrot" that settles "with a screech among your mangoes," and the '-watcher," who has "all day long to sit 

 and watch the ripening fruit, to wage a perpetual war with little beasts aud little birds, every squirrel a throe, and each 

 linch a spasm" (' In my Indian Garden,' pp. 21 and 181). 



