162 LEPIDOPTERA INDIOA. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upper side, ground colour rich ferruginous-red, tlie 

 basal area slightly tinged with olivescent yellowish-ferruginous. Cilia alternately 

 black and white. Foretving with three black slender bars crossing the cell, and 

 three similar bars below the cell between the basal interspaces of the middle and 

 lower medians ; beyond the cell is a large outwardly-oblique pure bluish-white more 

 or less triangulate spot followed by a transverse discal macular band, broadest in 

 the dry-season brood, composed of a series of large broad pure bluish-white spots 

 proceeding from the costa to the postei'ior margin, of which the upper five are 

 subapical and disposed obliquely outward, the third and fourth being ovate, the 

 upper two very slender and divided by the second subcostal branch, the fifth much 

 the smallest ; the next four are disposed somewhat obliquely inward and are much 

 larger, the sixth (or upper) triangularly ovate, the seventh longest and bluntly ovate 

 or somewhat quadrate, the eighth quadrate with its outer edge indented, and the 

 lowest narrow ; all these white spots are bordered with black, which colour broadly 

 extends from the cell along the costa and thence decreases hindward ; beyond is an 

 outer marginal broad lunularly inner-edged, or occasionally dentate, black waved 

 band, which is traversed by two contiguous slender grey sinuous marginal lines. 

 Eindiving with three black slender bars crossing the cell, and a small spot between 

 the basal interspaces of the veins above the cell ; a transverse medial discal broad 

 pure bluish-white macular black-bordered band terminating at the submedian, its 

 inner edge somewhat regular and its outer edge scalloped ; followed by an outer 

 discal row of black ill-shaped cordate spots, which are more or less obsolescent 

 posteriorly, or occasionally entirely absent, a similar submarginal row of smaller 

 dentate spots, and then a contiguous narrow waved black marginal band traversed 

 by two slender grey sinuous lines. Underside. Basal area bluish or olive-grey, the 

 outer discal area and the apical veins of forewing bright red ; discocellular spot on 

 forewing and transverse discal macular band, as above, bluish-white or greyish-white 

 and black bordered ; basal bars black, with the interspace between the middle cell 

 bars and of those below the cell on the forewing bright red ; marginal markings as 

 above, except that the marginal sinuous fines are violet- grey, and the inner line 

 broadly encompassing the submarginal black spots on the hindwing. Body above red ; 

 palpi above black, beneath greenish-white; body beneath and legs bluish-grey; 

 antennse black, tip reddish beneath ; eyes bronzy-brown. 



Expanse, c?2j^o to 3, ? 2i^o to 3xT) inches. 



Young Cateepillae. — " Slender, cylindrical, evenly clothed with short spinous 

 tubercles, and of a uniform dark brown colour." 



Adult Caterpillar. — "After last moult. Colour dark brown. Head large, 

 closely set with short, stout simple spines ; on the back is a double row of strong 

 spines or sharp tubercles, clustered at the ends of short stems; on the third 



