﻿]06 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Capt. E. Y. Watson took "a single male at Gersoppa Falls, Mysore, in January" 

 (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 5). 



Food-plant, and Habits of Laeva. — Mr. J. Davidson [I.e.) states that it " feeds 

 on Diospyros CandoUeana." It rests along tlie midrib of the leaf with laterally 

 outspreading spines. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 229, fig. 1 is the larva and pupa, 

 copied from Mr. S. N. Ward's oi'iginal drawing ; and figs, la, b, the male and female. 



DOPHLA DERMA (Plate 230, figs. 1, la, b, c, (^ ? ). 



Adulias Derma, Kollar, Hiigel's Kasclimir, iv. 2, p. 436 (1844). 



Euthalia Derma, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. IIC, pi. 19, fig. 4, $ (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, ii. p. 194 (188(;). 

 Dophla Derma, Semper, Reisen Phil. Lep. p. 86 (1887). 

 Adolias Eva, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 432 (1867). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 195. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent fuliginouS'brown. Both wings 

 crossed by an obscurely-defined curved discal darker-brown sinuous fascia, which is 

 broadest anteriorly on the forewing and slightly angulated on the upper median, 

 beyond which is a less-defined diffused submarginal and a lunular marginal fascia. 

 Forewing also with two discoidal black-lined marks, the upper part of the inner 

 mark being centred with vermilion. Hindtving also with a discocellular black-lined 

 mark. Underside grey ; crossed by a broadly diffused pale greyish-brown discal and 

 a submarginal sinuous fascia, and a narrow lunular marginal fascia, the latter being 

 most defined on the hindwing. Foreiving also with two discoidal marks as above, 

 and a small ring below the cell. Hindioing also with two discoidal black-lined 

 marks and two rings above them, both of which latter and the inner cell mark are 

 centred with vermilion. 



Female. Upperside as in the male. Underside also as in the male. 



Expanse, c? 3^) to 3^), ? 4i^o to 4^-0 inches. 



Habitat. — Masuri (Kollar); Assam; Khasias ; Silhet ; Burma; Tenasserim ; 

 Malay Peninsula, etc. 



Distribution. — " This has a wide range. Kollar described it, probably incor- 

 rectly, from Masuri, but it appears to be somewhat common in Silhet " (de Niceville, 

 Butt. Ind. ii. 194). Mr. P. Crowley has it from Assam. Colonel C. Swinhoe 

 records it from the Khasias. The late Mr. W. S. Atkinson also possessed specimens 

 from the Khasias. Major C. H. E. Adamson records it as spread sparsely through- 

 out Burma. Mr. Crowley has a female from Tounghoo. Mr. H. Druce possessed 

 it from Mallawoom, Lower Tenasserim, taken by the late A. 0. Hume. 



Mr. W. L. Distant (Rhop. Malay. 116) records it from Perak, Malay Peninsula. 

 We possess a female from Malacca taken by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Mr. P. Crowley 

 has a male from Sumatra. It is also recorded from N.E. Sumatra by Dr. L. 



