200 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



suftused with grey. Forewing with a whitish, somewhat suffused mark attached to the 

 upper end of the post-medial white band, but not quite touching the costa, the dots as 

 on the upperside. Auteuuse black, with a whitish smear on the underside of the club ; 

 palpi, head and body above and below and the legs concolorous with the wings. 



Female like tlie male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? lyV to 2 inches. 



Larva very stout when full grown, and has the habit of resting with the first 

 three segments after the head contracted, so as to give the appearance of being humped 

 about the anterior segments, the relatively small head lying with its apex pressed on 

 the second segment ; the body is flattened ventrally as the larva always lies closely 

 applied to the resting surface ; the anal segments are sloping, and the margin is closely 

 applied to the leaf, rounded at the extremity and somewhat thickened at the edge, 

 when at rest the fourth segment is more than twice as long as the head ; the head is 

 triangular when seen from in front, chocolate-brown in colour, narrowly bilobed and 

 small for the body, which is dark indigo-green ; anal segment whitish-yellow. Length 



31-23 mm. 



Pupa cylindrical, very slightly constricted dorsally, only behind thorax, produced 

 into a conical snout, s(juarely blunt at tip, the eyes being prominent, the abdomen is 

 tapering, and in a thin, long more or less broadly triangular, curved cremaster, the 

 proboscis is produced beyond the wings, and reaches to end of cremaster, the colour of 

 the pupa is a watery bright green, length 32-75 mm. 



Habits. — The imago rests with its wings closed over its back, but basks with them 

 half open ; they are insects of damp and shade, frequenting the beds of nullahs and 

 damp evergreen portions of the district ; they are not very strong flyers, and rest 

 often, and always close to the ground, on a convenient upperside of a leaf; the larva 

 makes a lax cell by turning over a triangular piece from the edge on to the upper 

 surface of the cell. This butterfly is of common occurrence in moist thick jungles 

 above the ghats, especially in evergreen jungles. We have bred numbers in the dry 

 weather above the ghats, though never in Karwar in the monsoon ; the larva feeds on 

 Maranta. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, Andamans, China, Malay Peninsula ; a common 

 species recorded from many parts within our limits. 



NOTOCRYPTA RESTRICTA. 



Plate 803, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, $ , 2o, larva and pupa. 



Pleslomnira restricta, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 178 (1881). Wood-Masoa and de Niceville, Journ. 



As. Soo. Bengal, 1887, p. 390, pi. 17, fig. 5, ^. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 461. 

 Notocrypta restricta, de Nicc\ille, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 189. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 



