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nearly straight from head to segment 12, then nearly at right angles ; 

 the lateral outline after the shoulders is formed by the wings being 

 •expanded very slightly for a short distance, after which the sides con- 

 verge to meet at the cremaster ; the transverse section of abdomen after 

 segment 8 is circular ; the abdominal peak is somewhat higher in appear- 

 ance than the thoracic peak ; the cremaster is triangular seen from above 

 and embraces the last segment somewhat, its attachment surface being 

 considerably longer, in the sense of the pupal length, than broad. Surface 

 of pupa is smooth and somewhat shiny, a thin line or carination connects 

 the shoulder with the abdominal peak. Colour is light green with the tops 

 of carinations yellow, and a black speck on abdominal peak. L : 12'5 mm.; 

 B : 5 mm. at shoulders ; 3 mm. at front of head ; H : 6 mm. at abdominal 

 peak, 5 mm. at thoracic peak. 



Habits. — The eggs are laid on the shoots and young leaves, 

 generally of a small tree or shrub near a water-course or in some 

 damp place open to the sunlight, though in forest. The larvse 

 generally live on the undersides of the leaves, eating all but 

 the ribs or veins in a moth-like way, and on these ribs and veins 

 they may generally be found sitting. They emit much silk or web 

 and fall to the ground by a thread when disturbed, but only when 

 actually touched or otherwise violently molested ; they rest with 

 the true legs off the surface, in the air, bunched, the head curved 

 ■down and often turned to one side. The pupa is formed on the 

 underside of a leaf and the body lies quite parallel to the surface 

 like the pupa of JElymnias. The imago is not often seen except in 

 the neighbourhood of the food-plant and, even then, but rarely. 

 This is probably a good deal due to its way of resting and the 

 colouration of its under parts which blends so well with the colour 

 of the grey and brown barks of dead sticks and twigs (see the 

 method of resting above under genus.) Its distribution is through- 

 out the Himalayas from Kulu to Sikkim ; Western India ; 

 Bombay • Southern India ; Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma to the Malayan 

 Subregion and China. It is not a butterfly of the plains at all. It 

 is found in Kanara and may probably turn up at Matheran or 

 Mahableshwar where the food-plant Geltis tetranclra, Koxb., surely 

 occurs. 



FAMILY NEMEOBIID^:. 

 Only one genus . . . . . . . . . . Abisara. 





