72 Lloyd's natural history. 



Deudorix epijarhas^ Hewitson, Illustr. Diurn. Lepid. p. 20, 

 pi. 7, figs. 16-18 (1863); Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 

 278, pi. 98 (18S8). 



This species, which is common in India, and is also said to 

 occur as far as Celebes, expands from an inch and a half to 

 nearly two inches. The male has dark brown fore-wings, with 

 a large triangular coppery-red patch extending from the base 

 nearly to the hind-margin, and occupying rather more than half 

 of the lower part of the wing. The hind-wings are of a duller red, 

 with a large brown patch at the base of the costa, and covering 

 the cell ; the female is of a fulvous brown, and has more 

 rounded wings. The under side is of a rather dark brown, 

 with two whitish undulating lines, and also two short black 

 lines at the end of the cell of the fore-wings. There are twc 

 black spots towards the anal angle of the hind-wings, one on 

 the lobe, surmounted by a crescent-shaped spot of metallic 

 green, and the second above it, enclosed by a yellow ring. 



Another Indian species, Deudjrlx isocrafes^ Fabricius, is 

 brown above, blue towards the base in the male, and with two 

 black spots at the anal angle of the hind wings, corresponding 

 to those below, on a pale ground. Tlie under surface is grey, 

 with two short black lines at the ends of the eel's, two median 

 lines enclosing a darker space, and one or two more sub-mar- 

 ginal lines. It is remarkable for the unusual habit of the larvas, 

 which live gregariously in the interior of the pomegranate. 

 When they are full-fed, they cut a hole in the shell of the fruit, 

 and spin a web attaching it to the tree to prevent it falling off, 

 and then return to the interior, where they assume the pupa 

 state. (See WesLwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, ii. p. i, pi. i 



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