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is very wary, tliougli it can be caught by baiting witli Mhowa refuse " (J. Bombay 

 N. H. S. 1890, 284). Mr. J. Davidson says "its flight is not strong, and it rests 

 much on leaves, with wings open " (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, p. — ). 



Food-plant of Larva. — " We found this larva very abundantly all the latter 

 half of the Monsoon on Melastoma malabathricum, a shrub with large and handsome 

 flowers, sometimes called B,liododendron. It also feeds on Careija arhorea" (David- 

 son and Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 276). 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 225, fig. 1, la, Ic, is from a South 

 Indian male and female ; and fig. 1, b, d, e, from a Burmese male and female. 



CYNITIA COGNATA (Plate 226, figs. 1, la, ? ). 



Female. — Upperside purpurescent umber-brown, as in same sex of C. lepidea. 

 Forewing differs from that species in the outer margin bordering the dusky sub- 

 marginal fascia being of the same but slightly paler bx'own colour as the other part 

 of the wing ; and in the discal dusky fascia possessing two upper and two lower 

 short sullied-whitish spots. Hindioing with the outer margin broadly pale brown, 

 palest along the discal dusky fascia. Underside similar to that of C. lepida, except 

 that on the forewing, the discal series of suUied-white spots are present, as on the 

 upperside. 



Expanse, y 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Siam. 



Described from a single specimen in the collection of Mr. P. Crowley. 



CYNITIA ANDERSONI (Plate 226, figs. 2, 2a, b, c, cj ? ). 



Eiiihalia Andersoni, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 18 ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 

 p. 38, pi. 3, figs. 3, 4, (^ ? . de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 203 (I8S6). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark umber-brown. Cilia white. Both wings with 

 basal black-lined marks, and an outer marginal pale cobalt-blue band, which extends 

 from the apex of forewing and widens across the hindwing to above anal angle ; a 

 transverse discal very obscurely-defined slightly paler sinuous fascia widening from 

 the costa of forewing. Underside pale brownish-ochreous, the outer borders broadly 

 suffused with pale purplish lilacine-grey ; cell marks on forewing distinct, less 

 defined on hindwing; across the disc of both wings are two slender dusky brown 

 lunular fascige, these being much less defined, and somewhat diffused, on the 

 hindwing. 



Female. Upperside paler than in the male ; discal fascia more apparent, the 

 marginal blue-grey band somewhat paler. Underside as in the male. 



