318 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



CALTORIS BEVANI. 

 Plate 831, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Mesperia hevani, ]Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 688. Swinhoe, Jouvn. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. 1887, 



p. 280. 

 PampMla hevatii, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. C69. Swinhoe, id. 188-t, p. 512. 

 Parnara hevani, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 53. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, 



p. 147, and 1886, p. 433. Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 52. Elwes, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 447 (woodcut, fig. 2). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 366. 



Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 376. de Niceville, id. p. 388. 



"Watson, id. 1891, p. 56; id. Hesp. Ind. p. 36 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 650. 



Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 426. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1897, p. 283, pi. 26, fig. 82 (genitalia). Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 



1908, p. 147. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Sue. xx. 1910, p. 370. Evans, id. p. 389. 



Eriihstorfer Iris, 1911, p. 55. 

 Bnoris {Parnara) hevani, "VTatson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435 ; id. idem, x. 1896, 



p. 683. de Rhe-Philipe, id. xi. 1898, p. 600. Aitken and Comber, id. xv. 1903, p. 54. 

 Baoris hevani, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 106. 

 Caltoris bevani, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 324. 



Hesperia saruna, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xlvii. p. 90 (1886), unpublished plate No. 1429. 

 Parnara thyone, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 610, pi. 42, fig. 4, (J (1893). 



Imago. — Male aud Female, very similar in colour and markings to C. colaca, but 

 it is a smaller insect, with the wings distinctly narrower, and both above and below it 

 is somewhat paler in colour ; there is usually only one cell spot in the forewing, some 

 discal dots on the hindwing above (not always present) and generally only three 

 lielow, one each in interspaces 2, 3 and 6. The genitalia, as figured by Elwes and 

 Edwards, is distinctly different to that of C. colaca. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ ly^^ to 1^% inches. 



Larva smooth (it is really clothed with sharp bristles almost invisible to the 

 naked eye), thickest in the middle, pale green ; head large, slightly bilobed, dark 

 ]»rown, or pale brown variously marked with darker. 



PcPA like that of Suastus gremius, Fabricius, but of course much smaller. We 

 found this in Canara in June, August and September on rice, and have often reared it 

 in Bombay on grass. It forms a tube cell which it never leaves, feeding on the edges 

 (if it. When about to become a pupa it lines the cell with white silk, to which the 

 pupa is attached by the tail only. (Davidson and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type is from Maulmein ; we have it from Eanikhet, Jubbul- 

 pur, Khasia Hills, and several other parts of India ; we took it commonly at Karachi, 

 Poona, Bombav and IMhow ; Elwes records it from the Naga Hills and Sikkim, 

 Watson from the Chin Hills, Adamson from Upper Burma, de Niceville from Chin 

 Lushai, de Rhe-Philipe from Masuri, Hannyngton from Kumaon, Moore from Mergtii. 



