NYMPHALJN^. (Group EVTSALIINA.) 115 



Habits of Imago. — " The males are fond of basking in the sun on high trees 

 or hill tops along with Charaxes Aihamas and Cynthia. With the exception of 

 E. Oaruda occasionally, the other Euthalias never do this. The females frequent the 

 forests at the foot or on the slopes of the hills and do not show themselves much " 

 (J. Davidson, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, p. — ?). " It is fond of carrion, and a 

 friend informed me that he once took a specimen on a piece of meat in the Crawfurd 

 Market, in Bombay City" (J. Betham, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 284). Major 

 Adamson " caught females of this insect about guava fruit in Rangoon " (List, 

 p. 18). 



Food-plant, and Habits, of Larva. — Mr. A. Grote found the larva near Calcutta 

 in October, feeding on Loranthm. Messrs.. Davidson and Aitken record finding 

 " the larvfe in Bombay District in August, September, and October, on two common 

 species of the so-called mistletoe {Loranthus). It probably continued till the end of 

 the year. After moulting it eats its cast skin, spines and all. It is worthy of 

 notice that the leaves of Loranthus are often disfigured with spots or patches of 

 purple-brown similar to the coloured tips of the larval spines. Oat of a large 

 number of larvae reai-ed, only a few female butterflies were obtained " (J. Bombay 

 N. H. S. 1890, 262, 276). 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 233, figs. 1, la represent the larva 

 and pupa from Mr. A. Grote's original drawing, and figs, lb, c, d, e, the male and 

 female. 



EUTHALIA GARTJDA. 



"Wet-Season Brood (Plate 234, figs. 1, larva and pupa ; la, b, o, d, cJ ? ). 



Adolias Garuda, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 186, pi. 6, figs. 2, 2a, larva and pupa ; 



id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 64, pi. 3, fig. 2, c? ? . Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 601. 

 Euthalia Garuda, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 32, pi. 16, figs. 2, 2a, S ? (1881). Distant, Rhop. 



Malay, p. 117, pi. 14, figs. 1, 2, c? ? (1883). de Nic^ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii p. 216 



(1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside umber-brown, of a more or less dark tint, glossed 

 with dark olive or purpuresceut-brown ; cilia alternately edged with white ; basal 

 marks black-lined. Foreioing with a transverse discal broad dififused sinuous-edged 

 blackish fascia and a narrow diffused submarginal lunular fascia ; the inner fascia 

 bordered anteriorly on its outer edge with a series of, generally five, decreasing 

 small white dentate spots — sometimes the two, or occasionally the three lower, are 

 obsolescent or even absent ; these spots vary in size on individual specimens, the 

 series in some being uniformly larger, in others uniformly small ; beyond are two 

 subapical obliquely-superposed very small white spots. Hmdwing with a discal trans- 

 verse blackish curved fascia, its outer edge being sinuously defined, its inuer diffused, 



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