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line and a lateral row of yellowish, dots, the segments crossed by a purplish line. 

 Feeds on mangoe (Mangifera indica). 



Chrysalis. — Short, keeled along the back, broadly triangular across the middle ; 

 green, with a yellow transverse dorsal and a lateral band, and a blackish-bordered 

 thoracic lateral spot ; a lateral row of abdominal segmental blackish dots. 



Distribution. — " Common at Colombo about Mangoe and Cashew trees. Flight 

 rapid. Settles on the leaves and on the ground " (Hutchison). " Plentiful at 

 Galle and Kaudy " (Wade). Major J. W. Yerbury obtained many specimens near 

 Kandy in October. 



EUTHALIA ACONTIUS (Plate 235, figs. 2, 2a, b, c? ? )• 



Adolias Acontivs, Hewitson, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1874, p. 357 _: Exot. Butt. v. Ad. pi. 4, fig. 11, 



? (1875). Wood-Mason, and de Niceville, J. A. See. Beng. 1881, p. 247, ^. 

 Tanaecia Acontius, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 586. 

 Euthaha Acontius, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 215 (1880). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purpuresceut-browu. Cilia brown ; basal 

 black-lined marks thick and prominent. Foreiving with a transverse discal broad 

 diffused black sinuous band and a submarginal broad lunular band ; the discal band 

 externally edged at its anterior end by a series of two, sometimes three, very slender 

 indistinct white lunules, and by a lower larger white lunate spot between the upper 

 medians; two white small short subelongate superposed subapical spots at the inner 

 anterior end of the outer band. Hindwing with a broad transverse discal black 

 submarginal band, its outer edge sharply sinuous and its inner edge diffused ; 

 beyond is a submarginal row of prominent black dentate spots. Underside greyish 

 ochreous-brown ; basal marks prominent. Foreiving palest at the base ; discal white 

 lunules and subapical spots distinct; submarginal black lunular band prominent; 

 outer border washed with purplish-grey. Hindwing with indistinctly-defined discal 

 brownish fascia and prominent black submarginal dentate spots ; basal area broadly 

 washed with olivescent-grey. Body, palpi, and legs above brown, beneath grey ; 

 antennas brown above, reddish below. 



Female. Upperside pale purpurescent-brown ; basal marks prominent ; discal 

 and macular submarginal bands darker brown, inwardly diffused, except the sub- 

 marginal dentate spots on the hindwing, which latter are most distinct. Foreiving 

 also crossed by an outwardly-oblique medial discal broad white macular band, which 

 widens from middle of the costa to the lower median |veinlet, below which is a 

 smaller shorter spot ; three small white spots also before the apex, the lowest 

 brown-speckled and merging at the lower radial with the third and fourth discal 

 spots ; the lower discal spots externally and the posterior angle diffusedly speckled 

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