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lunules as on the uppersicle ; in the middle of each lunule a short white 

 streak from the margin ; cilia alternately black and white. Forewing : the 

 cell with transverse bands of red, blue and black ; the base and disc below 

 the cell red, spotted with black followed by pale blue, ochraceous and black; 

 the white oblique band as on the uppersicle, beyond it a transverse incom- 

 plete row of lanceolate, white marks, with three black spots in each, followed 

 by a terminal, ochraceous band paling inwardly. Hindwing : the base and 

 cell pale blue and red, crossed by several broken, incomplete, black lines, 

 then alternate bands of white and ochraceous, two of each ; the outer 

 white band narrow and marked in each interspace with three black spots 

 arranged as a triangle. Antennse, head, thorax dusky brown ; abdomen 

 above tawny, beneath white. 



Female similar to the male in markings but the tawny ground-colour 

 replaced by pale greenish-white, somewhat brownish on the uppersicle of 

 forewing, the extent of black on this wing lai-ger. Underside with all the 

 markings paler than in the male, the red at the base of the wing replaced 

 by brownish yellow on the fore, white on the hindwing. Antennte, head and 

 thorax dusky brown ; abdomen dusky above, white beneath. Exp. 

 90-100 mm. 



Moore gives the larva as " Cylindrical, purplish-black, segments with 

 alternate yellow and crimson bands ; head armed with two long spines, 

 segments with dorsal and lateral rows of fine spines. Feeds on Passiflora, 

 July." 



The insect is found in the Himalayas, Mussooree to Sikhim, rare towards 

 the west, Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Cachar, Arrakan, throughout Burma and 

 Tenasserim. 



64. Cethosia mahratta, Moore. (PI. D, fig. 20). — Male upperside tawny 

 yellow ; often with a rosy tinge on the basal half of forewing. Forewing : cell 

 anteriorly along its length and the outer half of the wing, following an 

 irregular line from apex of cell to tornus, black, the black in cell formed of 

 coalescent transverse bars ; a broad, discal, oblique white fascia traversed 

 by the black veins, followed by a postdiscal series of black-centred, out- 

 ward-turned, slender, white lunules, a transverse series of white spots and 

 another subterminal series of similar white lunules ; interspaces 1 and 2 

 with three or four black spots. Hindwing with broad black costal and 

 terminal margins ; interspaces 1 and la with the markings of the under- 

 side showing through ; cell with some dull black transverse bars ; inter- 

 spaces 1-5 with broad, median, short streaks from bases followed by a large 

 spot margined with white, all black ; followed by a postdiscal series of 

 black lunules with their points turned inwards, then a subterminal tawny- 

 yellow band and a row of slender white, outward-turned lunules beyond. 

 Underside variegated with ochraceous red, bluish white, yellow and black: 

 the terminal margins of both fore and hindwing broadly black with white 

 unules, as on the uppersicle and median white short lines from the margin 



