﻿218 LEPJDOFTERA INDICA. 



Genus ANDRAPANA. 



Nepiii^ (part), Auctorum. 



Neptis (sect. 1, part), FelJer, Neues Lep. p. 30 (1861). 



Acca (part), Hiibner, Veiz. Sohmett. p. 44 (1816). 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving elongated, subtriangular ; costa very slightly arched, 

 apex obtuse, exterior margin oblique, scalloped, posterior margin recurved ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted about one-fourth before end of the cell, second near the 

 end ; discocellulars very short ; cell open ; posterior border of the underside pale 

 glossy grey, enclosing a broad elongated greyish-brown patch of scales above the 

 submedian vein, these scales being similar to those in rhfeihjma Heliodora. Hiiid- 

 n-ing broad, conically-ovate ; anterior margin very convex to the end, apex rounded, 

 exterior margin obliquely convex, scalloped, anal angle rounded; with a slender 

 glossy greyish-white basal costal band, and a broad slightly glossed violet-grey 

 patch extending from above the costal vein to below the subcostals ; precostal vein 

 short, bent inward iiear its end ; costal vein long, much curved, and extending to 

 the apex ; subcostal branch emitted from below first branch almost at the emission 

 of the latter from the costal; cell area short, broad, open. Boch/ rather stout; palpi 

 rather short, and stouter than in typical Neptis, pilose ; antenna} slender ; eyes 

 naked. 



Caterpillar. — (Jumba) Somewhat fusiform, anterior and anal segments 

 narrowed, the middle segments thickened laterally ; armed with two dorsal 

 long anteriorly-divergent fleshy spiny processes on the fourth segment, and 

 two shorter posteriorly-divergent similar processes on the twelfth segment, two 

 very short dorsal spiny tubercles on the third and sixth segment. Head cleft and 

 pointed at the vertex. 



Chrysalis. — Suspended vertically. Abdomen slender, thorax much stouter 

 and broader, with sharp angular dorsal ridge ; wing cases expanded laterally ; head- 

 piece with two sharp points. 



TiPE. — A. Columella. 



ANDRAPANA COLUMELLA. 



Pajjilio Cvlumella, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 296, fig. A, B, ? (1782). 



Neptis Columella, Doublcday and We.stwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 272 (1851). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 



E. L Company, i. p. 166 (1857) ; id. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 7, pi. 49, tig. 5, ^ ? . Butler, Tr. Linn. 



Soc. Zool. i. p. 542 (1877). 

 Acra Columena, Hiibner, Verz. Sohmett. p. 44 (1816). 

 ]^\itis Ophiana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 561, $. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 153, pi. 17, 



tig. 12 (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 105 (1886). 



