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submarginal spots, being pale dull ochreous, the spots sometimes being almost white. 

 Underside much paler than in the male, but marked the same. 



Expanse, c? 2^^ to S^^q, ? 2,^^ to Z^o inches. 



Adult Caterpillar. — " Fusiform, slender, transversely rugose and clothed with 

 short stout bristles just visible to the naked eye ; head large, surmounted by two 

 stout, straight processes, sloping backwards, which are slightly branched at their 

 end ; a pair of long straight caudal processes, setose like the body ; colour of the 

 body bright green, with two dorsal and two lateral longitudinal yellow hnes, more 

 or less distinct, and a subdorsal row — one on each side — of large yellow spots tinged 

 with pink and sometimes tipt with black; head dark brown, with a yellow cheek 

 stripe and frontal line. Feeds on Palmacex (Cocoanut and Betel-nut Palms)." 



Chrysalis. — " Suspended by the tail only, but in a rigidly horizontal position ; 

 regular, with the exception of two small pointed processes from the head and an 

 acute thoracic process above them ; colour bright green, ornamented with four 

 irregular rows of large yellow spots bordered with red " (Davidson and Aitken, 

 I. c. 268). 



Habitat. — South India. 



DiSTBiBUTiON. — " This has only been found in the South of Peninsular India. 

 Mr. H. S. Fergusson took both sexes on the Ashamboo Hills, Travancore, where it 

 is fairly common in April and May. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has it from 

 Calicut, the Wynaad, and the Kadur District in Mysore" (Butt. Ind. 271). We 

 have several specimens, from Calicut and the Wynaad, Malabar, captured by the 

 late Dr. Bayne Reed, and from the Nilgiris. Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng. 

 1888, 351) records it as being " rare in the Bamboo jungles at the foot of the 

 Northern and "Western Slopes of the Nilgiris." Messrs. Davidson and Aitken 

 (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 268) obtained the larvae and several pupge on 

 the Cocoanut and Betel-nut palms, in October. The late. Mr. S. N. Ward obtained 

 the type specimens at Calicut, and " found the larvae feeding on the Soopari, 

 (Areca-nut Palm) in September, October and December, both above and below the 

 Ghats" (MS. Notes). 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 135, fig. 1 is a copy of Mr. S. N. 

 Ward's drawing of the larva and pupa ; fig. la, a reproduction of Mr. Aitken's 

 figure in the Journal Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, and figs, lb, c, d, the male 

 and female. 



ELYMNIAS COTTONIS (Plate 136, figs. 1, la, b, c? ? ). 

 Melanifis Cottonis, Hewitson, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1874, p. 358. 

 Elymnias Cottonis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 583. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. 



Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 2i5. Marshall and de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 268 



(1883). 



