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female and in both sexes surmounted by a blue lunule ; while in interspace 

 7, between the medial band and the postdiscal spot, there is a large ocellus- 

 like spot of the black ground-colour more or less irrorated with blue scales. 

 Underside : ground-colour similar, the cream-coloured markings paler and 

 conspicuously larger. The latter differ from those on the upperside as 

 follows : — Forewing : Basal half of cell and base of wing below it with 

 cream-coloured streaks that coalesce at base ; irregular ochraceons spots 

 in interspace 5-8 and a discal series of spots complete, not interrupted in 

 interspace 5. Hindwing : The black at base of wing and along the dorsal 

 margin centred largely with pale cream-colour ; the ocellus in interspace 

 7, the apex of the cell and the black ground-colour between the medial 

 band and postdiscal markings in interspaces 2-6 centred with ochraceous 

 margined with blue. Antennee dark reddish-brown, touched with ochrace- 

 ous or the inner side towards the club ; head, thorax and abdomen dusky 

 black ; the head and thorax anteriorly streaked with cream-yellow ; 

 beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen cream-yellow with lateral longi- 

 tudinal black lines on the last. Exp. 80-100mm. 



Larva. — Head round, flattish in front nearly hidden under segment 2 in 

 repose, light brown in colour. Segment 2 saddle-shaped, four-sided, cut 

 square off in front, with a small short, fleshy protuberance at each front 

 corner ; the front margin of segment is as broad as the head and it 

 gradually increases in breadth posteriorly. Segment 3 nearly twice as 

 broad as segment 2, broader behind than in front, convex. Segments 4 

 and 5 are the thickest part of the body and are swollen, the anterior 

 margin of segment 4 and posterior of segment 5 being thickened slightly 

 and coloured yellow-brown, the yellow-brown colour on segment 4 reaching 

 only half way down the side, bordered thinly with black and with a 

 series of loops composed of thin black lines and a circular black eye- 

 like mark at each extremely crossed transversely by a light blue line. 

 The hinder margin of segment 5 has some dark spots on the yellow-brown 

 part, this yellow-brown part reaching down the sides half way. Segments 

 4 and 5 — the green part — are broad on top and very much narrower on 

 sides. Segment 6 is slightly smaller in transverse section than segment 5 

 and the rest of the segments decrease in order in transverse section to the 

 anal segment which is in a plane nearly perpendicular to the others. There 

 is a pair of subdorsal points on segment 12 pointing out horizontally 

 backwards. All the upper part of body is yellow-green with a broadish, 

 greasy-looking white, spiracular band to them. The perpendicular part of 

 the anal segment is whitish. The anterior margin of segment 6 and pos- 

 terior margin of segment 5 — that is the connecting membranes of those 

 two segments — is whitey-black. The white spiracular line on body only 

 reaches from segment 5 to end, and the green-dorsal part of segments 2 to 



