82 LEPIDOPTERA WDICA. 



Female like tlie male above and below, but the hindwing oq the underside is 

 purer white, the spots are much larger, and the outer marginal band is composed of 

 large brown spots with a series of smaller sul:) -marginal spots. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1-j-*q- to 2 inches. 



Larva very similar to that of the last [Cnprona ranfonnptii) in shape and habits ; 

 the head, however, has not such long hairs at the margins ; it is of the same colour (dark 

 chestnut), and is covered with longish, erect white hairs, there being three patches in 

 a line across the face near the vertex of the head, where the hairs are brown ; there is 

 also a line of brown hairs above each jaw ; the lower third of the face is clothed with 

 adpressed white hairs. Segment 2 has a broad, glabrous, shiny collar. The surface of 

 the l)ody is covered with short, thick-topped hairs, which are longer on the last segment 

 than anywhere else. Colour is green -yellowish to dark red-brown. Feeds on ^/Zo/?//?/- 

 his cohbe, Bl. Eumph. Length, 22 mm. 



Pupa very similar to that of the foregoing species, the spiracular expansion of 

 segment 2 is here smaller, hemispherical in shape and A^ellow-brown in colour. The 

 colour of the pupa is green, with a yellow tinge on the abdomen. The markings are 

 similar to those of the last, but there are many more black spots. Length, 17 mm. 



Habits. — The &gv is laid on the top surface of the leaf as in the last species ; the 

 hal >its of the larva are identical with those of that of C. ransonnetii, Felder. It is met 

 with all over the district above and below the ghats, with the exception of the parts 

 immediately bordering on the plains. It is nowhere common. The flight is rapid and 

 jerky, but it often rests on the uppersides of leaves, on flowers, etc. We have bred 

 many. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — China, India, Burma, the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — The type came from China, the type of sura from N.E. Bengal, it 

 is a common species all over India and Burma, except in the desert tracts, and has been 

 recorded from many places. "We give Friihstorfer's local forms in our list of allied species, 

 but we very much doubt their specific distinctness, because none of the specimens from 

 the Malay Archipelago that we have examined show anything more than the ordinary 

 variations found in specimens from every locality. 



ODONTOPTILUM PYGELA. 

 Plate 777, figs. 2, <? , 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



PlerygoKpidea pygela, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 53 (1868); id. Ex. Butt. v. Pterijgcspidcn, pi. i. 



fig. 3 (1873). 

 Aiitigonus pygela, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 360. 

 Tagiadeg pygela, Plutz, Jahrb. des Nass. Yer. xxxvii. p. 42 (1884). 

 Aharatha 2iygela, Distant, Rhop. 'Mala.yiLna, p. 390, pi. 34, fig. 18 (1886). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1892, p. 656. 



