164 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



Habits of Imago. — According to Mr, L. de Niceville' s observations, made in 

 the neighbourhood of Calcutta, it is " fond of settling high up in the trees with wings 

 widely spread open " (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 44). In the Sikkitn Terai he also 

 observed it as " a high soaring insect, settling often on the outer leaves of the 

 boughs of trees. If distui^bed it always returns to the same spot whence it is driven 

 off" (J. A. S. Beng. 1881, 51). Messrs. J. Davidson and B. H. Aitken says, "it 

 flies like Parthenos virens, a,nd like it, rests with wings open on the upper side of a 

 leaf " (J. Bombay N, H. S. 1896, 253). Mr. J. A. Betham observes that it " has an 

 elegant saihng flight, and fond of forests, settHng on the leaves of trees with widely 

 expanded wings " (J, Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 283). 



Food-plant and Habits of Larva. — In the Calcutta district, Mr. de Niceville 

 says it " feeds on Nauelea Gadamha " (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 44). Mrs. E. M. Span 

 " found the larva at Nowgong, Assam, feeding upon the Almond tree. Larva found 

 Sept. 28th, cbangcd to pupa Oct. 1st, the imago emerging Oct. 10th, The larvsB 

 were noticed to move with little jerks" (MS. Note). Messrs. Davidson and Aitken 

 in their very valuable notes on the butterflies of the Kanara district of Bombay, 

 state " we found the larva of L. Procris from July to October, feeding on Mussoenda 

 frondosa, a plant with white leaves at the ends of the flowering branches, which 

 make it a conspicuous ornament in the jungles. We subsequently found it oftener 

 on Wendlandia exserta, another plant of the same order. Of all the larvge we reared 

 this is in every respect one of the most remarkable. When young it remains on 

 one leaf of the Mussoenda, eating it regularly back from the point, but leaving the 

 mid-lib, and as it eats it fringes the eaten margin with its excrement, held together 

 by silk, among wliich it is absolutely undistinguishable. After the last moult it 

 abandons these strange habits and lives openly on the upper side of the leaf, having 

 changed its form for one in which it is able, apparently, to despise concealment. 

 The pupa easily passes for a small withered and twisted leaf " (J. Bombay N. H. 

 Soc. 1890, 274). 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 253, fig. 1 represents the larva and 

 pupa from Mr. S. N. Ward's original drawings made in Kanara, S. India ; fig. la, 

 that of the dry-season male, and figs, 1 b, c, d, male and female of the wet-season 

 form. 



MODUZA ANARTA (Plate 254, fig. 1, la, c? ? )• 



Limenitis Anuria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 585. 



Ldmenitis Procris var. Anarta, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 164 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside uniformly darker than the Indian Procris, 

 the red colour darker and duller in hue, the black bordering of the discal white 

 macular band more diffused, the marginal black band on forewing more uniformly 



