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butterflies are never fonml in the ojieu country ; they ily quickly in curves, anrl are 

 diflicult to see on the vviug, but rest often, when they are easily caught ; they are 

 generally seen chasing each other. The egg is laid on the upperside of a blade of 

 grass, or on a bamboo leaf near the ground ; it is nearly smooth to the eye, dome- 

 shaped, rather higher than broad, and of a dark red colour. The larva makes a more 

 or less lax cell at first, but finally a very tight one by joining the leaf by the edges 

 longitudinally ; the larva will often lie on the open surface of a leaf ; the pupa is 

 generally formed inside the cell, it is covered with white powder. The larva feeds on 

 Bamhusa arundinacese or on grasses, generally broad-leafed, coarsish grass. (Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitken). 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, South India, Ceylon, Burma, Perak, Java. 



Distribution. — In our collection from Sikkim, Rangoon, Kandv, Khandalla, 

 Poena, Calcutta, Ranikhet, and the Khasia Hills ; recorded l)y jManders from the Shan 

 States, by Aitken and Comber from the Konkan, by Watson from the Chin Hills 

 and Chin Lushai, by Wood-Mason and de Niceville from Cachar, by Fergussou from 

 Travancore, by Evans from the Palni Hills, liy Aitken from Bombay, by de Niceville 

 from Calcutta and Sikkim, by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Elwes from the Karen 

 Hills, Naga Hills, East Pegu, Ganjam, Perak, and W. Java, by Davidson, Bell and 

 Aitken from Karwar ; our figures of the larva and pupa are from Davidson's 

 original drawings. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



lamhrix sindu, A^tictopterus siudii, Felder, Wien Eut. Mon. iv. p. 401 (1860). Distant, Rhop. 



Malayaua, p. 402, pi. 35, fig. 30 (1886). Habitat, Perak, Borneo, Sumatra. 

 lamhrix ohliquans, Astictopterus obliquans, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii. p. 51 (1893). 



Habitat, Java. 

 lamhrix latifascia, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 182, pi. 21, fig. 9, ^ . Habitat, 



Borneo, Sumatra. 

 lamhrix vasuha, lamhrix salsala vasuba, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 93. Habitat, Tonkin. 

 lamhrix niasica, lambrix stellifer niasicus, Friihstorfer, I.e. Habitat, Nias. 

 lamhrix yamania, lambrix sindu yamanta, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 94. Habitat, Kina Balu. 



Genus PEDESTES. 



Pedestes, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 81 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hi.st. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 426. 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 192. 



F'oreiving, vein 12 ends on the costa opposite the end of the cell ; cell less than 

 two-thirds the length of the costa, discocellulars straight, slightly oblique, the lower a 

 little shorter than the middle discocellular, vein 5 thus arises a little below the middle ; 

 3 emitted somewhat close to lower end of cell, 2 from a little beyond the middle, costa 



u 2 



