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raottled with brownish black that leaves only basal, subbasal, 

 medial and discal transverse lines or bands of the ground-colour ; 

 the medial and discal bands, which are highly irregular, enclose here 

 and there small brownish markings, the bands themselves coalescing 

 above a very irregularly shaped brown mark that is placed on 

 the posterior half of the middle of the wing ; terminal markings 

 as on the fore wing but the subterminal spots larger, the apical 

 one especially so, the tornal two spots jet-black and each encircled 

 by a glittering slender ring of metallic green scales. Cilia of 

 both fore and hind wings, the antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen 

 much as in T. iheophrastus. $ . Upperside: very closely resembles 

 that of 5 T. tlieopJirastus, but the extent of white on the fore 

 wing is greater so that there is a greater area of white to be seen 

 between the brown markings superposed on it, these markings have 

 the appearance of an irregularly formed V on a white background. 

 Hind wiag much as in T. theoplirastus. Underside : similar to 

 that of its own <5 , but the brown bands less broken, more regular. 

 Cilia, antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the rf 



Exp. rf $ 22-31 mm. (0-85-1 -22"). 



Hab. Ethiopian Eegion in part. N.W. Himalayas to Kumaon; 

 the plains of Northern India ; Central and Western India; Ceylon; 

 Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim in the low hot valleys of the north; 

 extending to China and in the Malayan Subregion to Java. 



The description given above is taken from males and females of 

 wet-season broods. Specimens of the dry-season broods are paler 

 on the upperside with, in the rf , only anticiliary black lines to 

 the wings. On the underside the markings on the wings will, on 

 careful examination, be found very similar but paler brown and 

 all very much reduced in width so that a greater extent of the 

 white ground-colour is visible. 



Larva. " Pale greenish yellow above, sides lilacine, a narrow 

 brownish median line, followed by eight diagonal short streaks 

 and six brownish-red spots. Before pupating the colouring gets 

 much more diffused. Feeds among the flower-buds of Plumbago" 



Pupa. " Dull yellowish profusely mottled with brown spots." 

 (E. E. Green as quoted by de Niceville.) 



Genus CASTALIUS. 



Castalius, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 70 ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 82 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 195. 



Type, C. rosimon, Fabr., from India. 



Mange. Ethiopian and Indo-Malayan Regions. 



cJ $ . Fore wing : cost a widely arched ; apex blunt ; termen 

 convex ; tornus angulated, well marked ; dorsum straight, about 

 three-fourths the length of the costa ; cell long, longer than half 

 length of wing ; vein 7 from well before upper apex of cell, vein 8 

 absent,vein 9 out of middle of 7,vein 10 at base closer to base of vein 1 1 

 than to base of vein 7 ; vein 11 anastomosed with vein 12, sometimes 

 for some distance, sometimes only at one point ; vein 12 terminates on 

 costa well before apex of cell. Hind wing : costa arched ; apex broadly 



