260 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



bi-lobed ; head light yellow, bordered narrowly with black, and having a thin black 

 central line splitting along the edges of the clypeus down the face, segment 2 

 swollen, narrow, shiny green ; surface of body very minutely hairy, the hairs being 

 longer on the margin ; colour grass-green spotted all over with dark green, a dark, 

 dorsal green line, and a lateral and sub-marginal indistinct white line. Length, 

 25 mm. 



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

 produced into a sharp, conical snout in front, slightly turned up ; the eyes being 

 prominent ; the abdomen is tapering and ends in a thin, long, more or less broadly 

 triangular, curved cremaster ; the proboscis is not produced beyond the wings ; the 

 surface is quite glabrous and shiny ; there are no spiracular expansions to segment 2 ; 

 colour watery-green, with the markings of the larva. Length, 17 mm. 



Habits. — The pupa is fastened by l)oth the tail and a band, the larva sometimes 

 makes a lax cell, the pupa always forms on the underside of the leaf, with the edges of 

 the leaf just drawn towards each other by a few threads of silk ; the larva feeds on soft 

 grasses. The imago rests with its wings closed over the back, it basks in the sun with 

 its wings half open ; its Hight is not very rapid and it rests often. This butterfly is 

 found in similar places to A. maro, Fabricius (round rice fields), unlike maro, however, 

 it is found also in the jungles among bushes ; it is common throughout the district, 

 at all seasons of the year ; the larva is one of the commonest found on grass in the 

 monsoon months in Karwar. We have reared many. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, South India, Ceylon, Burma, Andamans, Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago. 



DiSTPJBUTiON. — We have examples from many localities in South India, Ceylon, 

 Burma, Andamans, the Khasia Hills, and the Malay Archipelago ; it is a local species, 

 but widely spread over South India, Ceylon, Burma and the Andamans, and is usually 

 in great plenty where it occurs. Elwes records it from Sikkim, Moore from Perak, 

 Distant from the ^lalay Peninsula, and de Niceville and others from Sumatra, Nias and 

 many parts of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Friihstorfer has given names 

 to some local forms of gola and dara, which we have entered in our list of allied species ; 

 our figures of the larva and pupa are from Davidson's original drawings. 



PADRAONA OTTALA, nov. 

 Plate 816, figs. 2, J , 2a, ?, 2b, ?. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich, dark chocolate-brown, markings orange-ochreous. 

 Forewirig with a streak along the lower side of the cell from about its middle to its 

 end, thickening outwards, a short streak above it, and attached to it, at the upper end 



