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the -white markings broader. Underside also with the ground colour paler, otherwise 

 as in the male. 



Body and palp iabove black ; thorax iridescent golden-green in front ; collar 

 white spotted ; abdomen with a basal bluish-white band ; palpi beneath white, edged 

 with black; forelegs and middle and hind femora below greyish-white, middle and 

 hind tarsi pale brownish-ochreous ; antennae black, tip reddish. 



Expanse, 2j^o to 2j^o, ? 2^q to 3 inches. 



Wet-season hrood (Plate 261, fig. c, d, (J ? ). 

 Athyma orientalis, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 354, pi. 9, fig. i, S ; P- Z. S. 1891, p. 277. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside darker black than in dry-season brood, 

 all the markings comparatively narrower, and of a sullied white tint. Underside of 

 the same ground-colour, with the mai'kings narrower, as above. 



Expanse, c? 2n)s ? 3 inches. 



Caterpillar. — Elongated, Head small, yellowish-red ; front blackish, studded 

 with several whitish nodules in front, two frontal short nodular spines and two 

 lateral rows of longer stouter black-tipt spines. Body green, with a subdorsal row 

 of slender black-tipt branched-spines on the third to last segment, those on the 

 third, fourth, sixth, eleventh, and twelfth segments being the longest ; on the third 

 segment is a similar but shorter lateral black-tipt branched-spine, and also a less 

 sized spine on the fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh 

 segments ; below these is a sublateral series consisting of delicate short single spines 

 with a branched-spine on centre of each segment ; front legs blackish. (Described 

 from specimen preserved by Rev. J. H. Hocking, in Coll. Brit. Mus.), 



Chrysalis. — Abdomen attenuating to the end, with a short dorsal projected keel 

 on each segment ; a large broad keeled anterio-dorsal dilated prominence, and a 

 thoracic conical prominence ; wing cases dilated and pointed anteriorly, rounded 

 posteriorly ; head-piece bifid, the tips lengthened, pointed, laterally divergent, 

 auriform and twisted ; ventral surface arched. Colour pale yellowish-testaceous, 

 processes partly dark brown ; two parallel macular brown stripes on the abdomen 

 below, and a lateral row of brown spots. 



Habitat. — "Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Khasia and Naga Hills ; Burma. 



Distribution. — "A very common species in the Western Himalayas at about 

 6000 feet elevation" (de Niceville, Butt. Ind, ii, 173. "I have taken perfect 

 specimens from March to November, so that it must be poly -brooded. It has a very 

 swift flight, but often settles. It is met with everywhere from the bottoms of the 

 Valleys to the tops of the Hills" {id. Indian Agriculturist, January, 1880). Capt. 

 H. B. Hellard took it at Simla, Masuri, and Kashmir, June to October (MS. Notes). 

 Major J. W. Yerbury at Thundiani in August and September, at 8700 feet 



