120 LEPIDOFTERA IXDICA. 



Malayans, p. 42, pi. 4, figs. 9, 11, 12, ^ ? (1882). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. 



i. p. 256, pi. xii. fig. 28, cJ (1883). 

 Fapilio Mijcena, Cramer, Pap. E.xot. iv. pi. 291, fig. f (1782). 

 Papilio Arcengia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 292, fig. c (1782). 



Ijiago. — Male. Upperside somewhat pale olivescent-brown, the costa of 

 forewing and the exterior margins slightly paler and speckled with vinescent- 

 cinereous scales ; cilia brown, slightly pale-edged. Foreioing more acutely angled 

 below the apex than in the wet-season brood, with the apical area dusky-brown, the 

 subapical black spots larger, more prominent and confluent than in the wet-seasou 

 brood (Leda), the white pupils also larger, and the ferruginous inwardly-defined ring 

 and upper bar broader and brighter in colour ; sometimes, though but rarely, there 

 is a smaller narrow black spot attached to the lower one. Hindwing with only the 

 posterior ocelloid spots present, which are very small, or sometimes almost obsolete 

 or represented only by the white dot. Underside extremely variable ; the ground- 

 colour in some being pale buff-brown, cinerescent-brown, ochreous or ferruginous- 

 brown, ochreous, dark-brown or almost black, with various intermediate shades 

 between these colours. Usually both wings are crossed by darker fasciae, as in wet- 

 season brood, which, in some, are narrow, in others broad, the outer fascia being 

 generally more sharply defined along its exterior edge. Both wings are numerously 

 covered with strig^ of darker colour than that of the ground-colour, and some have 

 the fasciae broadly blotched of a darker colour, resembling fungi on dead leaves, or 

 the entire surface of both wings may be darkly mottled throughout. On both 

 wings the ocelloid spots are more or less obsolescent, or indicated by whitish dots, 

 and in some few instances the ocelli are all indistinctly defined. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male, but somewhat paler. Underside 

 generally paler than in the male, and, generally, of shades of ferruginous ground- 

 colour, with darker strigge and transverse fascize ; the ocelloid spots as in the 

 male. 



Expanse, 2^-0 to S^-q inches. 



Adult Caterpillar. — Long, slender, somewhat fusiform, rough; terminal segment 

 armed with two divergent setose fleshy processes ; head prominent and armed with 

 two erect obtuse setose fleshy processes ; " colour grass-green with a yellow lateral 

 line and many rows of very small white spots ; head normally green, with the horns 

 and a continuing cheek-stripe red and three black spots on the face, but sometimes 

 the head and horns are dark brown with three white spots on the face " (Aitken, 

 Bombay, 1890). Feeds on grasses. 



Chrysalis. — Thick, smooth, abdomen dorsally convex, head case terminating 

 in an obtuse point in front ; colour, pule watery green without markings. 



