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much in size in different examples, sometimes all are minute and indistinct, the sexual 

 glandular streak white. Hindwing usually without markings, sometimes, but very 

 rarely, with one or two indistinct pale discal dots. Cilia cinereous, becoming whitish 

 hindwards. Underside paler. Forewing blackish on the basal half, between the 

 median and sub-median veins, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing with a white 

 dot in the cell near its upper end, and a discal series of four white dots, one in each of 

 the interspaces 2, 3, 4 and 5. Antennas black, with white dots on the underside of 

 the shaft, the club whitish beneath ; palpi with grey and white hairs above, white 

 beneath ; head and body concolorous with the wings, beneath, the pectus and 

 abdomen are white and there are some white hairs on the thorax, legs pale browuish- 

 ochreous. 



Female like the male, the spots all larger, and an extra spot on the sub-median 

 vein in continuation of the discal series. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1-^ to 1^ inches. 



Larva. — Found on long coarse green meadow grass, head triangular, on a neck ; 

 a brown line on the margin of the head. Body grass-green, with light yellow bars 

 across back ; a whitish line along either side above the origin of legs. 



Pupa. — September 3rd : two larvoe have become pupse, they lie alongside a blade 

 of grass attached l)y a liand across thorax, and also at tail ; head generally points 

 upwards ; body of a translucent green colour, cj^uite naked and unenclosed in a 

 covering of any description. September 13th: both pupsB have become imagoes 

 to-day ; they are a species of Hesperidaj very common about here, flying briskly by 

 day and settling on leaves of trees at dusk. October 9th : another imago out to-day, 

 same history as above. (Forsayeth.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Japan, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — A very common species, with a very wide range ; our figures of 

 the larva and pupa are from W. Elliot's original drawings, bred in Madras. 



CHAPRA MIDEA. 

 Plate 832, figs. 1, <? , la, ? , lb, ? . 



Peliopidas midea. Walker, Entom. v. p. 56 (1870). 



Chopra mtdca, Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 280. 



Imago. — Male and Female. The desert form of Chapra matldaf, only differing 

 from that species in its larger size and very peculiar colouring, being uniformly pale 

 sandy-brown above, and very much paler beneath, and all the spots much larger. 



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



Habitat. — Turkey, Egypt, Sind, Kutch, Western India. 

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