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five white spots superposed on the black area. Hindwing : slightly 

 irrorated with black scales at base which leave a terminal series of large, 

 somewhat diamond shaped, black sports at the apices of veins 8 to 7. 

 Underside, forewing : white, apex butter-yellow ; a somewhat narrow, 

 zigzag, curved, irregular, black band from middle of costa to tornus. 

 Hindwing : uniform butter-yellow. — Female, upperside : somewhat similar 

 to that in the male but differs in the much greater extent of the 

 black area which occupies the outer apical half of the forewing and 

 on the hindwing forms a broad, continuous, terminal band : the super- 

 posed spots on the black area of forewing reduced to two and the irro- 

 ration of black scales at the bases of the wings more dense ; on the hind- 

 wing this extends subdorsally to the black, terminal margin. Underside : 

 forewing white, basal half of cell suffused with sulphur-yellow ; a very 

 broad, curved, black band crosses the wing from costa to tornus, the 

 inner margin of this irregular, the outer margin fairly even ; apex pearly 

 bluish-white. Hindwing uniform, pearly bluish-white. 



Dry-season brood. — Male, upperside: similar to the wet-season form but on 

 the forewing the irroration of black scales at the base and the black on 

 apical area much restricted, the latter in most specimens has a more or 

 less rubbed appearance ; the white, preapical spots very ill-defined. Hind- 

 wing entirely white, in some specimens with a faint yellowish tinge. 

 Underside : forewing white, with a bluish tint broadly along the basal two- 

 thirds of the costal margin; apex butter-yellow ; in a few specimens the usual 

 black, curved band that crosses the wing is indicated by a few detached, 

 black scales, but in most is entirely absent. Hindwing uniform butter- 

 yellow. Female, upperside : similar to that in the wet-season form but 

 the black area on both wings much restricted just as it is in the male. 

 Underside : also similar to that in the wet-season form but on the fore- 

 wing the curved, black band is very much narrower and the nacreous sur- 

 face of the hindwing has more or less of a yellowish tinge. In both 

 sexes and in both seasonal forms the antennse are black minutely speckled 

 with white, the tufted hair on the head and thorax anteriorly greyish- 

 green, abdomen white beneath; head and thorax pale yellowish white, 

 abdomen white. Expanse 65 to 76 mm. 



Rahits. — This has alwaj^s been supposed to be the species that 

 is characteristic of the District of North Kanara in the Bombay 

 Presidency, but, as abeady remarked, the specimens caught and 

 bred there do not tally with the description in all respects, some of 

 them resembling leis. But enough has been said about the matter 

 already and, until further experience is gained, the subject will not 

 repay further consideration. The distribution is given by Colonel 

 Bingham as " Kanara and the Nilgiris." 



Larva of leis-ioardi. — The larva is very like that of A. hippo, Cramer, in ap- 

 pearance but is, as a rule, more thickly covered with black tubercles. 

 The body is more or less cylindrical but narrows somewhat in segments 

 2 and 3, and still more in the anal segments ; the anal flap is thick, 

 semicircularly rounded and inclined at an angle of 45 '^ to the longitudinal 

 axis of the larva, and has a small, very slightly developed, conical tuber- 

 cle before the extremity on each side of the dorsal line ; the front half 

 of the flap is shiny and black and has some conical tubercles of different 

 sizes all over it, each surmounted by a single, fine hair, there being one 

 subdorsal tubercle larger than the rest ; the posterior half is green and 

 smooth except for the tubercle just before the extremity just mentioned ; 

 the body is somewhat stouter in the middle ; the head is broader than the 



