106 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



withered leaf is much less remarkable. In the African species, 

 also, the leaf-like pattern of the under surface is not always 

 identical, and the same species often exhibits several forms of 

 leaf pattern below. 



THE INDIAN LEAF-BUTTERFLY. KALLIMA HUTTONI. 

 (Plate XX., Fig. i.) 



Kattima huttoni^ Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 12 ; 



De NiceV., Butterflies Ind., ii., p. 263, note (1886). 

 There are several Indian species of Kallima much resem- 

 bling the one figured by us. K. hnttoni is a native of Northern 

 India, and was originally described from Masuri. It measures 

 three inches or rather more across the wings, which are of a 

 rather dull blue at the base. The fore-wings are crossed by 

 an oblique orange band, moderately broad, and running from 

 the middle of the costa to above the hinder angle. On its 

 inner side this is narrowly and not sharply bordered with black, 

 and is rather irregular ; one of the indentations contains a 

 small oblong transparent spot. The outer portion of the wing 

 beyond the band is black, with a white sub-apical spot ; the 

 apex of the wing is not very pointed ; the blue of the hind- 

 wings shades into broad brown borders on the inner and hind 

 margins, and there is a zig-zag blackish sub-marginal line run- 

 ning down into the tail on the hind-wings, and slightly con- 

 tinued on the fore-wings near the hinder angle ; the under side 

 is brown, speckled with black, and with a blackish line edged 

 outside with dark reddish-brown, running from the costa near 

 the tip of the fore-wings to the end of the tail on the hind- 

 wings. There are also three dark brown stripes running 

 obliquely towards it from the basal half of the costa of the fore- 

 wings, that nearest the base being the broadest, and continued 

 across the upper part of the hind-wings. A sub-marginal zig- 

 zag brown line runs across all the wings, turning inwards about 



