310 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



spotted with black ; palpi, head and body concolorous with the wings, palpi 

 whitish beneath, the abdomen beneath smeared with whitish, legs tinged with 

 dull red. 



Female like the male, the spots of the forewing usually larger, and consequently 

 closer together, the largest spot of the discal series usually much larger. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^ to l-f*^ inches. 



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

 at the base and slightly bi-lobed ; the l)ody 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 black line from the apex to the base of the 

 elypeus, a large, round, black spot near the top of each lobe and another near the base ; 

 these spots may be coalescent and the face suffused with black in the lower portion in 

 the monsoon specimens ; the colour of the body is white tinged with blue and yellow, 

 punctuated finely with dark green, and clothed with fine, erect, white, minute hairs. 

 Lensth, 50 mm. 



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

 produced into a long, sharp, conical snout in front, which is pointed, the eyes 

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

 curved cremaster ; the proboscis is produced to the end of the cremaster ; colour green, 

 with a sub-dorsal and lateral white band, the surface is quite glabrous and shiny, 

 there are no spiracular expansions to segment 2. Length, 36 mm. over all. 



Habits. — The imagines rest with their wings closed over the back ; they are fast- 

 tlyino- in.sects, fond of basking in the sun on leaves, and are greedy flower-feeders ; the 

 larva generally lives in a laxly closed cell, which it makes by joining the edges of the 

 leaf longitudinally, loosely (never tightly) ; the pupa is formed on the open surface of 

 the leaf, either on the upperside or the underside, the edges of the leaf may be slightly 

 drawn together, but they are never made to meet, the pupa is quite exposed ; it is 

 fastened by both the tail and a band ; egg dome-shaped, broadest just above the base, 

 more or less smooth ; the larva feeds on long grasses, also on Zea mais. 



Common in the early rains below the ghats ; at the end of the rains, and through- 

 out the cold season, though plentiful enough at times, it cannot be said to be common. 

 The butterfly is fond of settling on the ground and on stones ; it is a fast flyer, but 

 generallv returns to the same spot when disturbed ; it makes a very audible fluttering 

 noise with its wings when flying ; it is most plentiful in the vicinity of water. This 

 butterfly is perhaps better known in India as Parnara narooa, Moore. (Davidson, Bell 

 and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — The type was from the Philippines, the types of narooa are from 

 Bombav : it is fairly common in many parts of India and Ceylon ; it has been recorded 



