60 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



prominent white spot at the end of the cell. Underside similar. Antennae as in the 

 male, a white spot on each side of the collar ; palpi greyish-white, with short brown 

 hairs and a white patch on each side below the eyes. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly% to 1^-q inches. 



Larva. — Head with lobe rounded on the vertex, less prominent than in any other 

 of the group, being shallowly though broadly indented ; very thin through ; of a 

 yellow colour, more or less suffused with dark l)rown on the upper part, with a 

 marginal red line. Body pure opaque white, tinged with blue. Length, 22 mm. 



Pupa is square in front, with a short beak Ijetweeu the eyes, and no spiracular 

 expansions to segment 2. The colour is greenish-white, waxy-looking. Length, 

 17 mm. 



Habits. — The imago lays many eggs in the young shoots of the plant, liut always 

 singly. The young larva on emerging proceeds at once to make a cell by turning over 

 a piece of the edge of a leaf on to the top, and scallops the edge of the cell. It pupates 

 in the cell ; the pupa is attached by the tail and by a body-band. The larva feeds 

 on Dalbergia latifolia, J), tamarindi folia, and D. voluhiUs. The imago is common 

 throughout the damper parts of the district in the cold weather and rains ; it is of fast 

 flight, but rests often, on the upperside of leaves generally, though we have seen it 

 also pitch on the undersurface of leaves in the same way that all the other members of 

 the group do. We have bred many. Specimens bred in the wet months are darker 

 than those bred in the dry ones. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Sumatra, Borneo, Perak, Burma, Ceylon, South India. 



Distribution. — The types came from Galle, Ceylon ; we have several examples 

 from the Nilgiri Hills, from which our descriptions and figures are taken. We have it 

 also from Karwar, where Davidson, Bell and Aitken bred it ; our figures of the larva 

 and pupa are from Davidson's original drawings. Watson records it from the Chin 

 Hills, and Elwes from Perak, Selesseh, Sumatra, Kina Balu, and Bernardmyo. It is 

 in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle, from the Chindwin District, Burma, taken l)y 

 Adamson. 



Note. — Elwes and Edwards have erected two species on account of some differences 

 in the genitalia. They were not able to examine the genitalia of any Ceylon specimens, 

 therefore cannot say how they difi"er from the Burmese and Nilgiri examples. We have 

 examined many specimens from difl"erent localities ; we find that the size and .shade of 

 colour varies much in examples from the same locality, and for the purposes of this 

 work it is impossiljle for us to recognise species that can only be differentiated by the 

 examination of the genitalia of each male specimen. 



