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scales. Hind wing : a black, terminal band that is broader anteriorly ; 

 basal area dusted with black scales. In specimens of the wet-season 

 broods the black-marked areas on both fore and hind wings are broader 

 than in dry-season specimens. Sometimes, in the latter, the terminal band 

 is broken into a series of linear spots posteriorly. Underside : ground- 

 colour similar. Fore wing : costa narrowly edged with pink ; two well- 

 marked, discocellular, and some obscure, preapical, black specks. Hind 

 wing : a small spot at base followed by three transversely-placed spots and 

 an elongated, delicate loop-like discocellular spot black ; above and 

 below the discocellular spot are small black-scaled, diffuse spots and 

 beyond the cell, on the disc, are short, transverse, diffuse, bands of black 

 scales placed en echelon. The apices of the veins in both fore and hind 

 wings with black spots ; cilia salmon-pink. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen dusky black ; the thorax with some yellow hairs ; beneath : the 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen whitish-yellow ; legs pink. Female, similar, but 

 the terminal band on the upperside proportionately broader in both wet 

 and dry-season broods. Expanse : 32-44mm. 



Larva. — The body is subcylindrical, narrowing more to anal end than to 

 head ; thickest possibly about segments 4, 5 ; anal end sloping somewhat 

 and finishing off square, slightly tumid at extremity. The head rather 

 small, round, very slightly bilobed, the vertices of lobes broadly rounded , 

 slightly narrower than middle of segment 2 ; surface covered somewhat 

 densely with semiappressed, stiff, longish, black hairs ; colour green like 

 the body. Surface of body lined transversely with fine, parallel lines, about 

 7 to each segment ; the intervals between each two with a single row of 

 erect, black, short bristles from spiracular line to spiracular line, each 

 bristle arising from a cylindrical, white tubercle ; the belly is also similarly 

 haired though not so densely. Spiracles oval, white, of ordinary size, placed 

 on the white band. Colour is grass green with a darker green, dorsal line 

 and a white, spiracular band, tinged with yellow, from segment 2 to 

 segment 12. L : 19 mm. ; B : 2-6mm. ; B. of head : l'8mm. 



Pupa. — The pupa is of the type of that of Catopsilia ; the wing-bulge not 

 very prominent. The head is slightly narrower than segment 2 at middle, 

 but, at their common margin, they are of equal width ; it is produced out 

 in front from bettveen the eyes into a short, conical beak, the top side of 

 which is in the same plane as the top of the head which is again parallel to 

 the longitudinal axis of the pupa, the ventral line gradually diverges from 

 that axis and is continued by the ventral line of the pupa formed by the 

 juncture of the costal margins of wings as far as opposite segment 7 where 

 it curves round and back, in a short, straight line to abdomen at the 

 hinder margin of segment 8 ; eyes hardly prominent ; segment 2 broaden- 

 ing backwards ; thorax only slightly humped, short ; abdomen circular in 

 transverse section, straight along dorsal line ; the pupal lateral outlines 

 are parallel from shoulders to end of dorsal margin of wings ; cremaster is 

 square at end, flat dorsally and slightly thickened at the extreme posterior 

 corners. Surface quite smooth and shiny. Spiracles are oval, white, of 

 ordinary size and situated in the white, spiracular band. Colour green 

 with a white, spiracular band on abdomeU; a subdorsal and lateral brownish 

 spot on each segment, a large spot in front of spiracle of segment 7, a 

 group of 7 lateral spots in front of spiracle of segment 2 ; snout pink and 

 wrinkled. L: 16mm.; B: 2-7mm. at shoulders; H: 4mm. at wing- 

 bulge ; nearly 3mm. at thorax. 



Habits. — The eggs are laid singly, generally on the nppersides of 

 the leaves, often on the young folded leaf-buds. The larvse lie 

 on the uppersides of the leaves and the leaflets are often 



