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it seems to represent Argynnis t two species only of which 

 range beyond Northern India over the countries occupied by 

 Cethosia. The Cethosice are very handsome Butterflies, measur- 

 ing about three inches in expanse, with broad dentated wings, 

 and generally with elegant festooned markings, at least on the 

 under surface, giving them very much the same character of 

 coloration as a Turkey carpet, patterns for which might 

 easily be taken from these Butterflies. The upper surface is 

 generally tawny or fulvous, often spotted with black ; the 

 borders, and the apical portion of the fore-wings are more or 

 less broadly black or brown, with a white band, or whitish 

 markings. The tawny colouring is sometimes replaced by 

 white or bluish-white, especially in the females, and one 

 species, C. leschenaultii (Godart) from Timor, much resembles 

 our Camberwell Beauty, being of a reddish-brown colour above, 

 with a broad pale yellow border, divided by the nervures. 



The larvae are spiny, black, banded with red and yel- 

 low, and with two protuberances on the head. Like the 

 larvae of Metamorpha and its allies, they are stated to feed on 

 PassiflorcR) and are even said to possess stinging properties, no 

 doubt resident in the spines, though the larvse of Butterflies do 

 not possess the terribly urticating arrangements (described, in 

 some cases, as amounting to fascicles of actual stings) which 

 render the caterpillars of some Moths so formidable. 



As a representative of this genus we have figured 



CETHOSIA MAHRATTA. 

 (Plate X.) 



Cethosia mahratta^ Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 



556; De Nicev., Butterflies Ind., ii., p. 34, pi. 22, fig. 98 



(1886). 

 Papilio cyane, Cramer (nee. Drury), Pap. Exot., iv., pi. 295, figs. 



C, D. (1780) 



