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Habits. — The habits are those of the foregoing species ; the food-plant of the 

 larva is also the same, i.e. Strohilanthes callosus, Nees. 



Lluch commoner than either of the last two species in the imago state ; it swarms 

 in the monsoon on the tops of the hills round Karwar, where the " Karwi," the food- 

 plant of its larva, is common ; it is to be met with everywhere above the ghats in the 

 dry-season. We have bred great numbers of it. It rests on the underside of leaves in 

 thick jungle. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — South India. 



Distribution. — Plotz's type of area came from Calcutta, Hampson's type of fusca 

 from the Nilgiris ; Davidson, Bell and Aitken bred it at Karwar ; we give figures of 

 the larva and pupa in two different stages from Davidson's original drawings ; Evans 

 records it from the Palni Hills ; de Niceville in the Gazetteer of Sikkim records it from 

 Sikkim, Ijut this is evidently an error ; we have examples in our collection from the 

 Nilgiri Hills and from Travancore, and we took it at Mahalileshwur and Lanaoli near 

 Bombay ; we formerly put it to sp'iluthyrus as Elwes has done, but after a careful 

 examination of a really good series, we find there are many differences between these 

 two forms, as pointed out by Hampson and de Nice'ville, and the figures of the larva? 

 do not correspond ; it can readily be separated from spilothyrus by its checkered cilia. 



CEL^NORRHINUS NIGRICANS. 

 Plate 762, figs. 1, <?, la, ?, lb, (J. 



Plcsioneura nigricans, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 188-5, p. 123, pi. 2, fig. 6, ?. Elwes and 



de Niceville, id. 1886, p. 441. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 461. 

 Celmnvrrhinus nigricans, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. 1889, p. 186. "Watson, Hesp. 



Ind. p. 141 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 661. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 317. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 178 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. ix. 189-5, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 118. Adamson, Trans. 



N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 138. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside dark blackish-ljrowu with a slight olive tint, nearly 

 black ; the basal hairs very slightly tinted with ochreous. Forewing with the usual 

 five sub-apical dots, the lower two very minute, the upper three in an outward curve, 

 usually but not always touching each other, the lowest of the three being often separate 

 from the others ; the outwardly ol)lique discal band composed of four conjoined spots. 

 the one near the costa .small, the next two large and quadrate, the fourth wedged into 

 the junction of the two quadrate spots, a fifth small spot below the lower outer end of 

 the band. Cilia brown with grey tips. Hindwings without markings. Cilia alternately 

 brown and white. Underside very nearly as dark as the upperside, markings similar. 



Female like the male above and beneath. Autennse of both sexes l)lack, the 



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