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Hong Kong, which I have examined, and remarks (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1895, p. 452) 

 " that it is not uncommon in the * Happy Valley,' in March, April, and May, the 

 male alighting to sun himself, with expanded wings, on the outer leaves of low 

 trees, the female being more partial to shady places." 



ROHAN A CAMIBA (Plate 194, fig. 3, larva and pupa). 



Rohana Camiba, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 27, pi. 14, fig. 1, la, b, c, (J ? ; larva and pupa (1880). 

 Apatura Camiba, de Niceville, Butt, of Ind. etc., ii. p. 54 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside uniformly purplish-black ; cilia alternated with 

 white. Forewing with three minute white superposed subapical dots. Underside 

 similarly marked as in B. Parisatis. Forewing with four superposed subapical white 

 dots. 



Female. Upperside similar to B. Parisatis, but with the markings somewhat 

 more sharply defined. Foreioing with a series of five superposed subapical white 

 dots. Hindiving with the outer discal clouded dusky fascia narrower, and more 

 sinuous. Underside similarly marked to B. Parisatis. Forewing with five super- 

 posed subapical white dots. 



Expanse, c? ? I^-q to 2 inches. 



Caterpillar. — Smooth ; head small and surmounted by two black spined- 

 processes projecting in front ; anal segment with two shorter green naked pointed 

 processes ; colour pale yellowish-green with a dark green dorsal and two lateral 

 bands ; front of head black streaked. Feeds on Geltis lycodoxylon,. (Described from 

 Sir W. Gregory's Ceylon drawing.) 



Chrysalis. — Green ; compressed ; with a pointed angle on middle of thorax and 

 on basal segment of abdomen ; the head attenuated and with two short points in front. 



Habitat. — Ceylon ; S. India. 



The late Mr. S. N. "Ward also reared the larva of this insect in Canara, and in 

 his drawing (see Plate 194, fig, 3) it is represented as having a subdorsal 

 longitudinal series of small bluish patches and a lower lateral greenish band, the 

 head in front being bluish-white, and the processes blue-black tipt with brown. 

 Messrs. J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, in the Notes on larviB reared in Karwar, 

 North Canara (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 271), say, " We got this in 

 September, October, and November, on a species of Celtis. It has much the aspect 

 of the caterpillars of the Satyrinse, and appears to have similar habits, resting by 

 day on the underside of a leaf, and feeding by night. The larva is long, slender, 

 thickest in the middle ; head small, armed with two long, straight, much branched 

 spines, pointed forward ; a pair of smooth caudal spines. Colour pale yellow on 

 the back, with a medial row of green spots ; green on the sides with a narrow 



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