14 LEPIDOPTEEA INDIGA. 



rounded at extremity. Colour dark iudigo-green ; segmental margins yellowish, and a 

 dark pulsating dorsal line ; a thin white marginal line. Length, 28 mm. 



Pupa. — Head large, quadrate ; eyes prominent, with a short, conical obtase beak ; 

 constriction slight ; section of abdomen circular ; at segment 7 the pupa is broadest ; 

 shajje longLsh ; surface corrugated finely, slightly and shortly red-haired ; spiracular ' 

 expansions of segment 2 large, raised, oblong, facing forwards, spongy-looking and 

 golden in colour ; proboscis reaches beyond the cremaster, being free from the end of 

 the wing cases. The colour is a rich golden-brown and shiny. Length, 23 mm. 



Habits. — The habits of the larva are those given for the group, except that it 

 does not scallop the edge of the cell. The pupa is attached by the tail and by a ]x)dy- 

 band. The larva feeds on a plant of the acanthaceous genus Eranthemum. 



The insect is fairly common both below and above the ghats where there is heavy 

 jungle ; it rests on the underside of leaves ; it is very easily captured. We have bred 

 quantities of it. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma. 



Distribution. — Fairly common all over India in the hill ranges, Elwes records it 

 from the Karen Hills, Elwes and de Kiceville from Tavoy ; Davidson, Bell and Aitken 

 bred it at Karwar, but unfortunately give no figures ; we took it in the Bombay 

 district, so did Fergusson ; Hampson records it from the Nilgiris ; we have it also from 

 Kulu, Sikkim and the Khasia Hills. Our description and figures are from Kulu 

 examples. 



CEL.ENORRHINUS PUTRA. 



Plate 760, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, ^ , Ic, 9 . 



Plesionenm jntira, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 186.5, p. 788. Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 9-5. 

 Celeenorrhinug pntra, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 184. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 



p. 139 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 49. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 317. 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. 

 Celsenorrliinus Ifucocera, Ehves and Edwards (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 116. 



Imago. — Male. L'pperside dark fuliginous-blackish-brown, nearly black, much 

 darker than leucocera, with some greenish-ochreous hairs in tlie basal area of both 

 wings. Furewing with three semi-hyaline, small, sub-apical spots, in an outwardly 

 oblique curve from near the costa, with the usual two lower spots placed outwards, the 

 upper spots not conjoined and smaller than in leucocera, a di.scal band, not nearly so 

 outwardly oblique as in leucocera, the upjier end within the extremity of the cell, its 

 upper half smaller than its lower, a short square spot in the interspace below, separated 

 by the median vein, its inner side below the middle of the upper spot, its outer side 

 very little beyond the other, a dot near the base of the second median interspace well 

 separated from the two large spots, another also well separated below the lower outer 



