PAMPniLINJE. 119 



The larva, when feedinii;, waiulers somewhat; when disturhed in its wM it will run 

 out and fall to the grouml, where it will curl up. The butterfly is connnou below the 

 ghats in the monsoon months ; it skips about amongst the small grasses in open places, 

 on paths, and in the compounds of bungalows on the hills. We were a long time in 

 finding the larvse, which we obtained for the first time last monsoon. The butterfly 

 is easily caught sunning itself on blades of grass with its wings half open. (Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitkeu.) 



Habitat. — South India. 



Distribution. — The types are in the B. ^I. from Bomljay, taken by us. We have 

 both sexes from Bombay in our collection, and have it also from Karwar, where 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitkeu bred it, but unfortunately did not figure the larva and pupa. 

 They record it as T. ceramas, but through J\lr. Davidson's great kindness we have had 

 the opportunity of examining one of the specimens bred by them ; it is undoul)tedly 

 HLceviUei, and not ceramas. 



TARACTROCERA OBERTHURI. 



Plate 784, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, 9 , 4b, 9 . 

 Taractroccra oherthiiri, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 185. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown, markings orange-yellow. Foreichuj ^^•ith 

 two short linear spots close together, at the end of the cell, a quadrate sub-api(;al spot 

 close to the costa, a similar but somewhat larger spot below, outside, its upper inner 

 end close to the lower outer end of the sub-apical sjiot, a nearly straight, inwardly 

 oblique discal band of conjoined spots, decreasing in size hindwards, from vein 4 to 

 the sub-median vein, the upper outer end of the band touching or almost touching 

 the lower inner end of the sub-marginal spot ; a pale yellowish-white smear or streak 

 on the hinder margin from the bottom of the discal band to near the base of the wing. 

 HindiciiKj with a spot in the middle of the cell, and a discal well-curved band of 

 conjoined spots, from near the costa to near the abdominal margin, the third spot 

 from the upper end elongate and protruding to near the outer margin of the wing. 

 Cilia grey with whitish tips on the forewing, becoming white on the hindwing. 

 Underside. Forewing blackish-brown, the costa and outer margin narrowly, the apex 

 broadly pale, dull ochreous, and the spots as on the upperside. Ilindwing pale 

 blackish-brown, more or less covered with minute whitish scaling, a whitish streak 

 from the middle of the cell to near the outer margin, and another throughout the 

 interspace above the sub-median vein. Antennae black, the shal't rin;. ed with white, 

 the club smeared with white on the underside ; palpi, head and body concolorous 

 with the wings ; pal^ii above and head with some short white hairs ; paljii beneath 



