290 NYiMPIIALID.E. MORPIIIN/E AMATHUSIA. 



Hindioing with the outer margin paler, and with a distinctly paler submarginal fascia, the 

 marginal fringe ochraceous, the broad tail at the anal angle somewhat paler, and bearing two 

 subliinulate black spots, outwardly margined with white ; these spots are placed near the apices 

 of the first median nervule and submedian nervure. Underside greyish, crossed by 

 numerous fuscous fascice of varying width and hue ; tlie fir^t commences near the costal base of 

 theforewing, and is continued on thehindwing, narrowing and becoming somewhat evanescent a 

 little beyond the middle of the submedian nervure ; the second crosses the cells of both wings 

 about their centres, and terminates on the innerside of the first median nervule at about 

 half its length ; the third is short, crossing the cell, but not passing the median nervure 

 of the forewing ; the fourth is pale, with its margins darker, waved, and deflected beneath the 

 third fascia on the forewing, passing a little beyond the second on the hindwing, and be- 

 coming confluent and terminating with that fascia beneath the median nervure ; the fifth is 

 •wide and darkest, crossing both wings at the apices of the discoidal cells and terminating a 

 little beneath the second median nervule ; the sixth is widest, somewhat paler, with darker 

 margins, outwardly sinuate and placed a little beyond the fifth ; this sixth fascia is followed by 

 three narrow fascia;, which terminate on the abdominal margin of the hindwing, one being 

 marginal and two submarginal, the middle one darkest and the inner one palest. The hind- 

 win« bears two large submarginal ocellated spots, which are ochraceous, speckled with fuscous, 

 with white centres and black outer margins, the inner borders of which are narrowly ochra- 

 ceous ; the lower and larger spot has the white centre somewhat lunulate, and is followed 

 posteriorly by a broad blackish suffusion ; the upper of these spots is situated between the 

 subcostal nervules, and the lower one between the first and second median nervules. The 

 anal tail of the hindwing is spotted as on the upperside, and has a large central castaneous 

 suffusion. Body and legs more or less concolorous with the wings. The male has four long, 

 curved tufts of hair on each side of the terminal segments of the abdomen. A somewhat 

 similar tuft is situated about the middle of the abdominal margin of the hindwing, on the 

 inner side of the submedian nervure ; and between the submedian nervure and first median 

 nervule within a fold of the wing are also a few long hairs. Both of these, judging by 

 analogous reasoning, are probably the coverings of scent-glands or pouches. Female, larger 

 than the male. Upperside, botk 7uiiigs paler, with an ochraceous discal fascia crossing both 

 wings, widest near the costa of the forewing, and very narrow on the hindwing ; the sub- 

 marginal fascice as in the male, but concolourous with the ochraceous margins. Underside 

 as in the male, but much paler. This species varies in the depth and intensity of hue of the 

 fuscous fascia; on the underside." (^Disfant, 1. c.) 



Larva cylindrical, of nearly equal thickness throughout, covered with long hairs placed 

 in tufts on tubercles placed in rows along the body : colour pale brown, marked with a dorsal 

 and two subdorsal longitudinal paler lines, with darker marks on each side of the dorsal line 

 two on each segment : head dark brown, anal segment furnished with a somewhat short bifid 

 tubercular tail. Pupa boat-shaped, acuminated to a long and somewhat sharp point at the head, 

 and marked with streaks of a deeper green than the ground-colour. (Described from Horsfield 

 and Moore's figures). Dr. Horsfield states that in Java it " feeds on the young leaves of Coccos 

 niicifera, from December to April." 



Several writers have noted the crepuscular habits of A. phUippus, and it is often found in 

 cocoanut palm groves. We have specimens from Upper Tennasserim, and the Andaman Islands, 

 and Dr. Anderson took a single male in the Mergui Archipelago in January, and Captain 

 Adamson took it at Akyab in November. 



Of the next group, in which the forewing bears a broad transverse fascia, blue in the males 

 and yellow in the females, three species have been described from India. The first was des- 

 cribed, but not figured, by Doubleday in 1847 as A. amythaon ; in 1848 Westwood figured 

 and described a species under the name of A. amythaon, Doubleday, but which does not at all 

 correspond to Doubleday's original description ; and in iSsr Westwood in the Gen. D. L. 

 recorded some notes on A. amythaon which seem to refer to the species figured by him and 



