GO LEPIDOFTERA IiXDICA. 



above. Hindwing with six minute ocelli, wliicli are generally well-defined and silvery- 

 white piipilled. 



Female. Upperside as in wet-season brood. Underside as in male dry-season 

 brood. 



Expanse, 1^, to 1^% inches. 



Adult Cateepillae. — " One inch in length. Body more compressed than in 

 Y. Eiihneri, and flattened to a ridge line below the spiracles. Head rounded. 

 Second segment a little larger than the head, third and fourth segments gradually 

 increasing to the fifth, then very gradually decreasing to the anal segment, which is 

 furnished with two very small immovable pointed processes or tails. Colour reddish- 

 ochreous throughout, with an indistinct darker dorsal line, two narrow subdorsal 

 lines, and several other very narrow lines placed very close together in the spiracular 

 region above the lateral ridge ; there is also a subdorsal series of about eight short 

 oblique streaks. Head and body throughout also shagreened, being covered with 

 small tubercles bearing very fine short hairs." 



Chrysalis. — " The pupa is either pale ochreous with darker ochreous and brown 

 markings, or pale green with dark brown markings. It is very narrow, the thorax 

 longitudinally humped above, with another ridge just before the abdominal segments 

 placed transversely." (de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — India ; Burma ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra ; Borneo. 



Eeaeing of Wet and Det Season Brood from the Egg. — Mr. L. de Niceville 

 (Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1886, 234) gives the first recorded instance of 

 rearing, in Calcutta, both the wet and dry season brood of this insect from the egg, 

 as follows : — " On September 10th Captain Sage sent me a tin box, with net cover, 

 containing several females of Y. philomela [Baldus]. The insects had laid numerous 

 eggs on the net, which differ considerably in colour from those of Y. Hiibneri, being 

 nt once distinguishable by the naked eye. On September 1-lth two larva? emerged. 

 On September 18th eighteen more emerged, and I placed all the young caterpillars in 

 a stoppered glass jar on the same grass as that which was used for Y. Euhneri. The 

 larvae are at first exceedingly small, pinkish-white in colour, hairy, and with a pinkish 

 head. "When full-grown, they are a full inch in length, rather larger therefore than Y. 

 Eiibneri, reddish-ochreous coloured throughout ; the head and body throughout are 

 shagreened, being covered with small tubercles bearing very fine short hairs [for full 

 description see above]. On October 8th, one larva? ; on October 9th, seven larvje; on 

 October 10th, two larvae ; and on October 11th, one larva changed to a pupa. On 

 October 17th three females emerged ; on October 19th, two males and one female; 

 on October 23rd, two females, and on October 24th, one female emerged ; and two 

 larvoe died. All these butterflies proved to be true Y. philomela [Baldus] like their 

 female parent. 



" On my return from Darjiliug, on November 8th, Captain Sage gave me eight 



