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black discal band on tlie hindwing below being especially wide, so as wholly to 

 enclose the whitish spot between the lower medians ; the veins also were heavily 

 marked with black. At Murree, in the extreme north-west of India, I found this 

 species with the band on the hindwings below wholly obsolete, and the underside 

 with a whitish silky gloss." 



Food Plant and Habits of Laeva. — Major H. C. Harford, in his MS. Note on 

 the rearing of the larviB of this butterfly, at Kausali in 1889 (and from whose 

 drawing our figures are taken), says " it feeds on the 5aA?i-Ilex-0ak {Qvercus incana), 

 and rests on the upper surface of the leaf, laying along the centre rib, on a silken web, 

 which it spins for itself like a cradle; head facing towards the stem, and drawn down 

 so that the horns are in prolongation of the body. The larvse were obtained May 

 16th, 1889, changed to chrysalis May 26th, and the imago emerging June 9th, 1889." 



SEPHISA CHANDRA (Plate 198, fig. 1, la, b, c, c? ? ; Plate 199, fig. 1, la, b, c, ? ). 



Castalia Chandra, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 200, pi. 6, a, fig. 4, ^ (1857). 



Waterhouse's Aid, i. pi. 8, ? (1880). 

 Sephisa Cliandra, de Niceville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1882, p. 60 ; Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 46 



(1886). Staudinger, Lep. Exot. pi. 55, S i} 885). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blue-black; cilia alternated with, white. Forewing 

 crossed by an inner discal excurved rich ochreous-yellow macular band composed of 

 four portions disconnected by the black veins, and an outer discal oblique straight 

 white macular band composed of five spots, the three upper of which are the 

 narrowest, the fourth cordate or ovate, the fifth smaller and ovate ; beyond are 

 three subapical superposed small white spots, the lowest being minute, followed by 

 a submarginal decreasing series of more or less obscurely-defined spots and a less 

 distinct marginal slender macular line, both of which are either bluish-white or dull 

 ochreous ; sometimes a small slender ochreous streak is present within the basal 

 interspace of the upper and middle median veinlets. Hindwing witb the medial 

 discal area broadly from base of the cell rich ochreous-yellow, traversed by the black 

 veins, and marked by a small more or less apparent black spot above base of the 

 middle median veinlet, beyond which is a submarginal row of broad rich ochreous- 

 yellow obconical spots, followed by a marginal slender lunular bluish-white or dull 

 ochreous line ; sometimes a small subanal bluish-white speckled spot is present 

 between the middle and lower median interspace. Underside somewhat paler, the 

 black colour more or less greenish tinged, with markings similar to the upperside, 

 but somewhat broader and more prominent. Foreiving also with the base of the 

 costa, a spot within base of the cell, and anotber below the cell bluish-wbite. 

 Hindwing also with three basal costal and two subcostal spots also bluish-white ; the 

 discocellular black spot large, the upper discal interspaces sometimes tinged with 



