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" This insect and its allies hover and flit in the air, especially in little open places, 

 as where two paths meet, and over pools of water, &c. ; common at Dacca." 

 Mr. "VV. Doherty says, " Unlike the other species of Athyma observed in Kumaon, 

 it prefers open meadows to forests" (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 125); and again, as 

 observed in Sumba, "This species occurs in open meadows, unlike all its allies" 

 {id. 181)1, 175). The late Consul R. Swinhoe observed it at Takow, Formosa, 

 " Common on bushes and grassy places, fluttering and sailing through the air. 

 It sucks the sap of wounded trees. The males fight for the females" (P. Z. S. 

 1S66, 359). 



Food-Plants of Laeva. — Messrs. Davidson and Aitken found the larva at 

 Matheran, in Bombay, feeding on Glochidion lanceolatum and velutinum. The female 

 laying its eggs by preference on the young shoots that come up from the roots " 

 (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1886, 134). In Java, according to Dr. Horsfield, "the larva 

 is found in April feeding on a species of Phyllanthus, bearing the native name 

 of Dempul-lolot." 



Mimicry. — Mr. L. de Niceville observes that " it is doubtless a good mimic of 

 our commonest species of Neptis (N. Leucothoe), together with which it is always 

 found, and from which it is not easily differentiated on the wing, but, if pursued, 

 it at once assumes its stronger and bolder proper Athyma-like flight " (Butt, of 

 N.E. Sumatra, J. A. S. Bengal, 1895, 417). 



Genus CONDOCHATES. 



Atliyma (part), Westwood. de Niceville. 



Imago. — Male. Forewing subtriangular ; costa very slightly arched, apex 

 rounded, exterior margin very slightly concave and slightly scalloped, posterior 

 margin long ; first subcostal branch emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, 

 second at one-fifth before the end ; middle discocellular concave posteriorly, lower 

 discocellular slender, slightly oblique ; middle median emitted at a short distance 

 before lower end of the cell ; minute Androconia or scent-scales, similar to those in 

 Fnntoporia, are present, but very few in number, and found chiefly upon the area 

 between the median and submedian vein of the upperside. Hindiuing triangular,, 

 exterior margin oblique, slightly convex, scalloped, anal angle obtuse; cell area 

 very broad, open. Body moderately robust ; palpi slender, laxly clothed, apex 

 pointed ; antennae with a well-formed club ; eyes hairy ; sexes alike. 



Caterpillar. — Elongated. Head small, nodular in front, two frontal short 

 nodular spines, and two lateral rows of longer stouter spines. Body with a 

 subdorsal row of slender branched-spines from the 3rd to last segment, those on 

 the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 11th, and 12th being the longest ; on the 3rd segment is a similar- 



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