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wing orange-yellow, uitli a narrow black marginal band and prominent white cilial 

 spots ; a single small black discal spot. Thorax greenish grey, head and palpi above 

 brown, palpi black-tipped ; fore legs brownish above ; abdomen and legs orange-yellow. 



Female with darker and more prominent strigae, the three longitudinal discal streaks 

 much larger, broader, contiguous, purple-glossed, and narrowly divided and bordered 

 with white ; hind wing and body as in male. 



Expanse 2^ to 3| inches. 



Hah. India {Kussoiolie, Lucknoiv, Allahabad, Kutch, Kattywar, Bombay, Canara, 

 Madras, Calcutta, Balasore) ; Ceylon ; Java. 



This insect has also been taken in the island of Madagascar. A specimen from 

 Abyssinia, collected by Mr. Jesse, and another from Gambia are in the collection of 

 the British Museum. It has also been taken at sea in the north of the Bay of Bengal. 



" Larva, after last change, 2| inches long ; half Geometrous, long, cylindrical, stout, 

 with the penultimate segment much elevated, and the anterior ones strong; ground- 

 colour red-brown, darker at the hinder and foremost segments, more of an olive-brown 

 in the middle ; dorsal line well defined and bistre-colour, on either side of which a 

 similar line, bearing on 5th and 6th segments a splendid ' ocellus,' the upper part of 

 which is primrose, with the lower half purplish brown, Avith a lilac pupil ; sides and 

 middle of back variegated irreguLirly with lilac and yellow spots and yellow fascia ; on 

 penultimate segment a coral-coloured protuberance, spotted with lilac here and there, 

 with on either side a broad yellow fascia; abdomen lighter than back, with a dark 

 ventral line; legs all red-brown, tipped with black; anal legs very long; head dark 

 coral-colour ; stigmates violet. 



" In state of repose it curls the head and 4th and 5th segments right under the 

 body, forming a circle. 



"Turned into pupa 28th Sept., between the leaves. Imago came out 7th October. 

 Period on the wing Sept., Oct.; Lucknow." {Capt. II. L. Be la Chaumette, MS. note, 

 1860.) 



Mr. S. N. Ward, in his MS. notes on the Lepidoptera of Canara, says the " larva 

 feeds on the Amoordah Beeloo, changing to pupa among the leaves, which are fastened 

 together with coarse yellow threads, the changes occupying fifteen days. Found from 

 September to December." 



Larva reared on Menispermum glabrum at Allipore, by Mr. A. Grote. Sir W. Elliot 

 reared it on Cocculus cordifolius ; and in Java Dr. Horsfield reared the larva on botli 

 Leschenaultia and Ej)ibatherium. 



VOL. XI. — PART III. No. 3. — March. 1881. 



