298 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside dark vinous-brown, with a bronzy tint. Forewing 

 with seven or eight pale ochreous-white semi-hyaline spots ; two across the cell, near 

 its end, well separated from each other, three sub-apical in an outwardly oblique 

 curve, with a discal inwardly oblique series of spots in continuation in the 4th, 3rd 

 and 2ud interspaces, increasing in size hindwards. Ilindwing without markings, the 

 tuft of hairs dark blackish-brown, with their bases' pale oehreous-brown. Cilia of 

 forewing brown, with whitish tips near the hinder angle, of the hindwing whitish, with 

 a brown base. Underside like the upperside. Forewing with the spots as above, the 

 hinder marginal area more or less broadly whitish and somewhat glazed. Antennae 

 black, whitish on the underside, thinly marked with black, the extreme tip of the club 

 whitish ; palpi, head and bo<ly and the legs coneolorous with the wings, palpi beneath 

 and pectus dark grey. 



Female like the male, but the spots are larger, the spot in the first median 

 interspace is usually more or less spear-shaped, with its point outwards, there is a small 

 dot below it, and a smaller spear-shaped spot on the sub-median vein. The spots on 

 the forewing vary in number in both sexes, there being sometimes as many as six 

 spots in the male and seven or eight in the female, as shown in figures Ic and Id. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l-j^ to ly*^ inches. 



Larva. — Head of a semi-elliptical shape, somewhat narrowed at the top, truncated 

 at the base and slightly bi-lobed ; the body is cylindrical, somewhat depressed, 

 thickest at segment 5, sloping at the last segment, with the extremity of the anal 

 segment rounded broadly ; head white, with a shiny black, broad border ; a broad 

 shiny black line down the centre of the face, splitting down the sides of the clypeus, 

 and a curved black mark in the centre of each lobe ; all these marks are broader in the 

 rains specimens than in the dry-weather ones. Length, 47 mm. 



Pupa. — Cylindrical, very slightly constricted dorsally only, behind thorax, snout 

 long, pointed ; proboscis produced to the end of the cremaster, the eyes are prominent, 

 the abdomen tajjering, and ends in a -thin, long, more or less broadly triangular, curved 

 cremaster ; colour green, with a sub-dorsal and lateral white band. Length, 36 mm. 

 over all. 



Habits. — The larva generally lives in a laxly closed cell ; the larva makes the cell 

 by joining the edges of the leaf longitudinally, loosely (never tightly) ; egg dome- 

 shaped, broadest just above the base, more or less smooth ; the larva feeds on bamboo. 

 Tliis butterfly being so like the next (Baoris kumara, Moore), we did not distinguish it 

 for a long time, and consequently did not know it existed in the district until we bred 

 it. Since breeding it, however, and thereby becoming aware of its existence, we have 

 caught many males basking on bamboo leaves, in the beds of nullahs, in shady places, 

 where little spots of sunshine came through, with Baoris canaraica, Moore, up till 

 9 o'clock in the morning and for a short time before sundown ; it retires when the sun 



