180 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent oclireous-brown ; cilia pale brownish- 

 oclireous. Forewing with a paler indistinctly-defined oblique subapical fascia and a 

 submarginal lunular fascia. Hindiving with the extreme outer margin slightly paler, 

 and with a paler submarginal indistinctly-defined fascia ; the lobate tail bearing 

 two laterally-disposed small sublunate black spots outwardly edged with white ; the 

 long liairy fringe of fhe glandular pouch ochreous. Underside ochreous-brown ; both 

 wings crossed by several pale nacrescent-greyish narrow fasciae, consisting of a 

 basal, two subbasal, a narrower medial, two discal, and two slender submarginal 

 and marginal fasciis ; an indistinct pale lunular nacrescent-grey fascia also extending 

 between the outer discal and submarginal fascia, the interspaces between the basal 

 and between the discal being darker ochreous-brown, and all conjointly ending 

 above the anal angle of the hindwing. On the hindivmg there is a large round 

 apical ocellus and a similar posterior ocellus, both with yellow and black speckled 

 centre, a small white pupil and slender black outer ring ; the lobate tail with two 

 similar or more rounded spots as on upperside. Bodij beneath, legs above and 

 palpi ochreous-brown ; collar, legs beneath and sides of palpi streaked with grey. 



Female. Upperside. Both wings paler ; crossed by the indistinctly visible 

 paler basal and medial fascise of the underside. Forewing with a pale ochreous- 

 yellow slender lunular discal fascia, a well-defined short broad subapical oblique 

 band, followed by a broadly-lunular submarginal fascia and a narrower lunular 

 marcrinal fascia. Hindiving also with a pale ochreous-yellow discal fascia, a more 

 prominent broad submarginal and a narrow marginal fascia. Underside paler than 

 in male ; markings similar. 



Expanse, c? 4^^, ? -i^Q inches. 



Adult CATEuriLLAE. — Cylindrical, slightly covered with rather short fine hairs, 

 arrano^ed in tufts placed in rows along the body from the fifth to last segment, the 

 anterior segments with transversely-disposed long forward-projecting hairs, the 

 head with similar hairs. Head large, armed with two laterally-disposed palmated 

 processes ; anal segment also armed with two hindwardly-projected lengthened 

 setose processes. Colour, light purpurescent-brown above, with a darker brown 

 dorsal and lateral line ; pale ochreous beneath, including the anterior segments and 

 head ; a transverse dorsal bar of black on fourth and third segments. 



Food plant. — According to the late Dr. Horsfield, " the larvae, in Java, feed on 

 the young leaves of the Cocoa Nut Palm (Cocoa nucifera) from December to April." 



Chrysalis. — Elongated, boat-shaped; thorax prolonged into an acuminated 

 bifid head-piece ; colour green. (Described from Ilorsfield's figure.) 



Habitat. — Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Andaman Isles. 



Distribution. — Major C. H. E. Adarason (List of Burmese Butterflies, p. 10) 

 records it from " Akyab, in November," remarking that it frequents old barns and 



