210 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



Body stout ; thorax robust ; palpi stout, compactly clothed, second joint hairy above, 

 third joint pointed ; antennse leather slender, with a lengthened club ; eyes hairy ; 

 sexes similar. 



TrpE. — K. Ranga. 



Caterpillar. — (See p. 211.) 



Chetsalis. — (See p. 211.) 



KIRONGA RANGA. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 269, fig. 1, la, b, c, d, e, f, g, (J ? ). 

 Athyma Mahesa, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. Ind. Company, i. p. 176, pi. 5, a, fig. 7, ^ (1857) ; id. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 15. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 301. de Nice ville. Butt, of India, etc., 

 ii. p. 171 (1886). Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, p. 254, pi. 2, fig. 4,4a, 

 larva s.ndi pupa. 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside dark purpurescent fuliginous-black ; freshly caught 

 specimens with the basal two-thirds glossed with green and blue in certain lights. 

 Forewing with two more or less indistinctly-defined sullied-white spots in the cell and 

 having still less-defined intervening pale patches ; a similar discocellular patch at 

 end of the cell ; below base of the cell are two indistinct greenish-speckled spots ; a 

 transverse discal interrupted series of seven purpuresceut-white spots, the upper 

 three being subapical, outwardly oblique, and narrow, the third very small, the next 

 two are situated on the middle of the disc between the medians and disposed 

 obliquely-outward, the upper one being small, the fifth much larger and irregularly 

 oval, the sixth and seventh narrow and disposed obliquely-inward ; beyond is a 

 submarginal and a marginal row of more or less defined pale brown or sullied-white 

 lunules. Eindiving crossed by a vein-divided inner discal purpurescent-white band, 

 followed by a submarginal row of conical spots, which are either more or less 

 defined, pale brown or of a sullied-white, and then by a similar coloured marginal 

 lunular line. Underside ferruginous-brown or dusky olivescent-brown with blackish 

 intervening patches between the markings. Both wings with white markings, as 

 above, but more distinctly defined and olivescent-white. Forewing with the cell and 

 basal marks also distinctly defined and white. Hindwing also with prominent 

 olivescent-white basal marks. 



Female. Uppersidewiththeground-colour paler than in male and of an olivescent- 

 brown tint ; markings the same but somewhat larger and duller white. Underside 

 as in male. Thorax and palpi above dark iridescent greenish-brown ; head and 

 collar white-spotted ; abdomen above black with white lateral spots ; body and 

 palpi beneath and legs greyish-white ; antennas black. 



Expanse, S 2^-^ to 3, $3 to 3i-o inches. 



