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siibbasal foscia, and two marginal limular lines. Body and palpi above blackish ; 

 thorax iridescent; body and palpi beneath, and legs white ; antennae above black, 

 tip and beneath reddish. 



Wei-season hrood (Plate 27G, fig. 1, e, f, g, h, c? ? ). 



Male and female. Forewings elongated, as in dry-season. Upperside with the 

 cell-streak narrower and the spot beyond more or less smaller ; the discal spots also 

 more or less narrower ; the bands on hindwing narrower in the female, and the 

 marginal line less defined. Underside darker ferruginous than in dry-season, the 

 white markings more prominent and blacker edged ; veins of forewing discally black 

 lined. 



Expanse (Dry), c? li^o to 1^^, ? 2 to 2^q inches. 

 (Wet) S 2, ? Ij^o to 2 1^0 inches. 



Caterpillar. — Head larger than anterior segment, vertex with two short 

 pointed spines, cheeks obtusely spined; third, fourth, sixth, and twelfth segments 

 armed with a subdorsal pair of stout fleshy spiny-processes, those on the fourth 

 segment longest. Colour pale green ; face, tip of processes, and segments slightly 

 washed with pale pinkish ; a slight pinkish oblique lateral fascia from anal process ; 

 a small dark lateral spot on sixth segment. 



Cheysalis. — Rather short ; head-piece bluntly cleft in front, vertex pointed ; 

 thorax doisally prominent and angular ; dorsum angular at base ; abdominal 

 segments slightly angled dorsally ; wing cases somewhat dilated laterally. Colour 

 pale brownish-ochreous, with lateral thoracic golden spots. (Described from S. N. 

 Ward's drawing.) 



Habitat. — E. Kumaon; Sikkim ; Continental India ; Ceylon. 



DisTfiiBUTioN. — Mr. W, Doheity records Varmona from the " Kali Valley, 

 Eastern Kumaon, and Haldwani in the Terai, from 1000 to 3000 feet elevation " 

 (J. As. See. Bengal, 1886, 125). " In Sikkim," Mr. L. de Niceville says, " it is a 

 very common species, and occurs everywhere at from 7000 feet elevation to the level 

 of the plains throughout the warm months" (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 138). We 

 possess a series of specimens of the dry and toet-season forms of this common species, 

 as follows : — Mount Aboo, 3980 feet, West Central India ; Wangui, Thanah District, 

 November and December ; Mhow, February ; Malda, April; Ahmednuggur, Poona, 

 January; Mahableshwar, May ; and Bombay, November, all taken by Colonel C. 

 Swinhoe. Coonoor, Kanara (S. N. Ward) ; Nilgiris (G. F. Hampson) ; Shevaroy 

 Hill^ (Dr. J. Shortt) ; Quilon, Travancorc, May; Mynall, Travancore, 1500 feet; 

 Ceylon (Mackwood, Yerbury). Also of the dry-season form from Calcutta (Farr) ; 

 Khasias (Swinhoe) ; Shillong, Assam, taken in May ; wet-season form from Nowgong, 

 Assam (Mrs. Span) ; Bhotan (Dudgeon) ; and dry-season form from Sikkim and 



