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wings, palpi below and the pectus with grey and brown hairs, aljdomeu beneath with 

 some whitish on the apical half. 



Female, paler than the male, the spots on the fore wing larger ; three sub-apical 

 spots, and an obscure white dot in each of the median interspaces on the underside of 

 the hindwing. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ ly\y to ly% inches. 



Larva. — Head of a semi-elliptical shape, somewhat smaller than in the larva of 

 Baoris conjuncta, truncated at the base and slightly bi-lobed, the body is cyliudric-al, 

 somewhat depressed, thickest at segment 5, sloping at the last segment, with the 

 extremity of the anal segment rounded broadly ; light yellow in colour, with a dark 

 line down the centre of the face ; the head is suffused with black in the monsoon months. 

 Length, 27 mm. 



Pupa, not distinguishable from that of Baoris conjuncta, pale green, slender and 

 smooth, with a sharp frontal process or snout. Length, 27 * 5 mm. 



Habits. — The larva makes a cell of two or more leaves laxly drawn together with 

 a few threads, when full grown ; feeds on bamboos. 



A very common insect at all times and places in this district ; it basks like the 

 last [Baoris farri), but always on leaves, and is fond of Howers in the early morning ; 

 it is easily captured when basking as, if disturbed, it returns to the same leaf ; it has 

 an extremely rapid flight. We have bred many specimens at all seasons, above and 

 below the ghats. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Southern India, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — The types are from Kanara in South India, the type of seriafa, a 

 female from Ceylon (it is undoubtedly a female of kuinara) ; we have both sexes from 

 Karwar and from Kandy ; it is very nearly allied to philippina, Herrick-Schaffer, from 

 the Philippines, but is a larger insect ; we have both sexes also from the Xilgiris ; 

 Evans records it from the Palni Hills, and de Niceville from Calcutta. 



CALTORIS AUROCILIATA. 



Plate 826, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, $. 



Parnara aurociliata, Ehves and Edwards, Traus. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 278, pi. 21, fig. 23, ^, and 

 pi. 26, figs. 87, a, b, c (genitalia). 



Imago. — Male. A species at once distinguished by its bright yellow fringes. 

 Upperside deep warm brown. Forewing above with seven yellowish-white hyaline 

 spots, two in the cell, of which the upper is the smaller, one in each of cells 2, 

 3, 4, 6 and 7, the three last named punctiform, and a small yellowish-white spot 

 next vein la near the middle. Underside clear rich brown, somewhat darker 

 in the basal region of the forewing ; pale spots as on the upperside, but the 



