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Larva very similar to the last [Baoris phiUppina), but has a broad black band 

 round the head, a black line down the centre of the face splitting along the sides of the 

 clypeus, the furcations reaching halfway down the clypeus, where they are met by a 

 brown line parallel to the central line, which brown line runs up the face, but does not 

 reach the vertex of the head ; all these markings are obsolescen t in some specimens ; 

 a black line down the centre of the clypeus ; segment 12 is slightly broader than 

 segment 1 1 , being somewhat swollen at the spiracles ; colour bluish opaque white all over, 

 with a yellow tinge at the front margins of the anterior segments. Length, 40 mm. 



Pupa as in the description of the group ; the beak is slightly curved downwards, 

 has a blunt tip, and a small bit stuck on the tip ; colour is a very watery darkish 

 green, with a double, broadish, white dorsal line ; proboscis reaches only to the hinder 

 margin of segment 9. Length, 34 mm. all over. 



Habits the same as for the last. The larva feeds on bamboo ; is found 

 throughout the district at all seasons in similar localities to B. phiUppina ; it is very 

 similar to the last in appearance ; indeed so similar as to be difficult of separation as 

 concerns the males ; the female of this species is, however, greyish on the underside 

 of the hindwing, whereas the female of the last is rusty-red ; the male of this is 

 perhaps also more constantly rusty-red underneath than the male of B. phiUppina. 

 (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — The type from Sikkim is in the Indian ^Museum, Calcutta ; we 

 have both sexes from the Khasia Hills ; Elwes records it also from the Karen Hills ; 

 de Rhe-Philipe from Masuri, and Khandalla near Bombay ; Betham from the Central 

 Provinces ; Davidson, Bell and Aitken from Karwar, and Watson from Orissa. 



Note. — de Niceville says that Wood-Mason gives the following description of the 

 genitalia in comparison with that oikumara : — " The male genital somites and appendages 

 differ very considerably in detail, though identical in plan ; in plebeia the terminal 

 dorsal segment is furnished with a pair of conspicuous conical spines which curve 

 upwards, forwards, and backwards from the disc, and is shorter, and the upper lobe of 

 the claspers is smaller and is embraced at its lower border by the commensurately 

 developed spine of the lower lobe, while in kumara the terminal dorsal segment is 

 furnished with shorter spines, from the base of each of which a small cusp is given off 

 backwards, and the sclerite is of greater antero-posterior extent ; and the upper lobe of 

 the claspers is more curved and longer, extending much beyond the spine of the lower 

 lobe ; and the intromittent organ ends in a bilobed spiny brush in the one, and is 

 apparently simple in the other." The male of plebeia, however (as pointed out by 

 Elwes and Edwards), " is readily distinguished by the tuft of long hairs near the 

 middle of the dorsum of the forewing below, a feature not noted in the original 

 description." 



