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of the leaf on which it is resting, forming a remarkable instance of protective 

 coloration, structure and character combined" (de Niceville, Butt, India, ii. 192). 

 " The caterpillar, which eats little, and grows slowly, spends most of its time at 

 rest motionless, on the upperside of a leaf of precisely the same tint as itself. A 

 dorsal line, or row of spots, however it may look on paper, succeeds in keeping up 

 the continuity of the midrib of the leaf in a way which cheats the sharpest eye, 

 while the long interlaced spines, extending on each side, fall in with the neuration " 

 (Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 275). 



EUTHALIA VASANTA (Plate 236, figs. 1, la, b, c, d, cJ ? , larva and pupi). 



Adolias Vasania, Moore, Trans, Ent. Soe. Lond. 1859, p. 77, pi. 7, fig. 2, ? . Butler, P. Z. S. 1868, 



p, G02, 

 Euthalia Vasanta, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 33, pi. 17, fig.^. 2, 2a, b, c? ? , larva and pupa (1881), 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc.,ii. p. 217 (1886). 



Imago. — Male, Upperside dark purpurescent-brown, discal area of forewing 

 and posterior half of hindwing glossy olivescent-brown ; basal marks black-lined ; 

 cilia dark brown, Foreiving with a transverse inner-discal broad obscure blackish 

 sinuous-edged fascia, and a narrow submarginal luuular fascia. In some specimens 

 are faint traces of small incipient whitish lunate marks on the outer upper edge of 

 the discal fascia, and also of similar subapical dots, Hindwing with a narrower 

 discal obscure blackish fascia and a submarginal series of small dentate spots. 

 Underside pale dull greyish-brown, dusky externally ; the outer border slightly 

 washed with lilacine-grey ; basal black-lined markings slender ; the transverse fasciae 

 narrower and much less defined, the discal obscure. Foreiving also with very 

 slightly-defined small whitish lunate marks to the upper edge of the obscure narrow 

 sinuous discal fascia, and small white subapical dots. Body and palpi above dark 

 brown, beneath and legs pale brownish-white ; antenufe black, tipt with red. 



Female. Upperside olivescent f idiginous-brown ; basal marks black-lined ; 

 transverse fasciae obscurely darker brown, Forewing with an outwardly-oblique 

 transverse discal white narrow macular band, commencing from middle of the costa 

 and extending to lower median veinlet near its end, the spots somewhat cordate, the 

 lower posteriorly elongated or sometimes nearly or quite broken across its middle ; 

 beyond are two obscurely-defined very small white subapical spots. Underside as 

 in the male, except that the transverse discal oblique white macular band, and the 

 slightly-defined subapical small white spots, are present. 



Expanse, 2f\, to 2]^o) ? 3 to Sj-q inches. 



Cateepill\e. — CLiilopodiform. Dark green ; armed with ten pair of lateral, 

 long, paler green, horizontally-projecting branched-spines ; a pale yellowish dorsal 



