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Rajmalial Hills " (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 187). It has been taken at Barrackpore 

 by Mr. J. Rothney and at Balasore, near Calcutta, by Mr. A. G-rote, and also in 

 Calcutta ; in Sabibgung by W. B. Farr, and in Maungbboom, Lower Bengal, by tbe 

 late Capt. E. C. Bevan. " It occurs in Ovissa, and tbence tbrougbout the South of 

 the Peninsula to Ceylon, and up the West Coast as far as Bombay, but not 

 apparentlj^ in the Punjab. It apparently thrives best in open and moderately dry 

 country" (de Niceville, I.e. 187). Mr. "W. C. Taylor records it as "common at 

 Khorda, in Orissa " (List, p. 6). Tbe late Sir Walter Elliot obtained it in the Madras 

 District, and found the larva feeding on Diospyros, in October, LS50. Capt. E. Y. 

 Watson found it " common in Mysore at Kolar in October and Januaiy " (J. Bomb. 

 N. H. S. 1890, .5). Mr. G. F. Sampson took it in " the Nilgiris, in bamboo jungle, 

 from 1000 to 3000 feet elevation " (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 354). Mr. Lindsay took it 

 in Koouoor. Messrs. Davidson, Bell, and Aitken (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1895, p. ?) 

 say, " this is almost unknown ou the West Coast, but common enough above the 

 Ghauts. Tbe lai'va feeds on Diosopyros melanoxi/lon — the ' Ebony ' tree (Ebenaceae)." 

 Tbe late Mr. S. N. Ward obtained it in Kanara. Mr. E. H. Aitken (J. Bombay 

 N. H. S. 1886, 134) also says, " I have not met with it in Bombay, but it is not 

 uncommon at Uran, only five miles from Bombay, and may be found, I dare say, 

 throughout the low jungles of the Tanna District. I think its chief season is the 

 close of the Monsoon, but I have found it in May. There is some difference in the 

 depth of colour in specimens from the same region." Colonel C. Swinhoe " found 

 it common in Mhow, Central India, from October to Jvily " (P. Z. S. 1886, 425); 

 and in "Belgaum and Poona in April" (id 1885,130); also found in Wangui, 

 Thanah District, in December (Swinhoe). It is also found in Ceylon. 



Life History.— Dr. E. W. Forsayeth (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 384, 

 pi. 14, figs. 8, 3a) figures, and describes the larva and pupa as follows : — " Mhow, 

 November 5th, 1879. Larva brought in bv a native, who stated that it fed on the 

 * Tendu ' tree, a large tree somewhat resembling tbe Ash. General colour a light 

 grass-green ; a row of purple spots along centre of back ; margins of body armed 

 with long, horizontal, fleshy processes covered with fine green hairs of a non- 

 irritating character. Movements regular. November 12th. Changed to chrysalis 

 last night. Chrysalis angular, green, with dark and gold spots and lines. Sus- 

 pended head downwards, no thoracic band. Subsequently, in November, I obtained 

 several more larvae and pupte, and on December 1st, note that another larva has 

 become a pupa during the night. January 6th, 1880. Imago of last noted pupa 

 came out this afternoon. The pupa was not kept in the sun or exposed to its 

 influence." 



The late Sir Walter Elliot, in his MS. Notes on Madras Lepidoptera, made in 

 1850, writes of this species: " Pupa, October 2nd. Imago emerged on the 17th. 



