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stage dark brown ; second stage black, with a dorsal yellowish stripe extending its 

 entire length ; Third and. last stages green ; spines black. 



Pupa. — Suspended. Elongated. Headpiece obtusely "cleft in front ; thorax 

 dorsally oblique in front and raised to a point behind, waist concave ; basal segments 

 dorsally raised ; wing cases somewhat dilated laterally. Colour either gi'een, pale 

 greyish ochreous, or dark purplisli-brown with the dorsum pale purplish-grey. 

 (Described from original drawings by the late Sir Walter Elliott). 



HAurrAT. — B. Africa; Continental and Peninsular India; Ceylon. 



Distribution (within our area). — -We possess examples of the tvet and dri/ season 

 form from Kutch, Ahmednuggur, Poona, Bombay, and Lanowlie, and of the wet 

 form from Kattywar, Assirghnr, Kanara, Kurnool, Nilgiris and Madras. Colonel 

 C. Swinhoe records it (as Polinice) from Poona, from September to December, 

 Ahmednuggur, June to November, and (as simple.c), Poona, September to January 

 (P.Z.S. 1885, 129). The type of sitnylex is recorded as having been taken, by Col. 

 Swinhoe, at " Depalpur, North of Mhow, in January, being also common at 

 Assirghnr, and Depalpur in September and October" (P.Z.S. 1883, 147). Mr. J. 

 Davidson and E. H. Aitken obtained it at Dhulia in the " Khandeish District, and 

 the Dekkan. We reared the larvaa along with those of £'r_(/o/(',s Jr;W/;e, on Tragia- 

 Cannabina (Euphorbiacefe). We were able to distinguish them only by the fact that 

 the light dorsal line was continued the whole length of the body in this species, and 

 was comparatively uninterrupted. The pupa was undistinguishable" (Journ, 

 Bombay N.H.S. 1890, 269). " Mr. Blathwayt, of Kanara, had a specimen said to 

 have been taken at Karwar, but we have never met with it in the district " (id. 189G, 

 247). Mr. G. F. Ilampson obtained it in the " Nilgiris, at 1000 to 3000 feet 

 elevation, near tanks on the plains" (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 352). Capt. E. Y. 

 Watson records "a few specimens taken at Kolar, Mysore, in October " (J. Bomba}' 

 N.H.S. 1890, 4). The late Sir Walter Elliott found and reared the larva in Madras, 

 on Tragia Cannabina, in August, 1851 (MS. Notes). In Ceylon, according to the 

 observations of Major N. Manders, it is "common in the low jungles in the north of 

 the Island, in July and December" (J. A. S. Beng. 1899, 195). Of the illustrations 

 on our Plate 38J, fig. 1 represents the larvas and pupae, copied from Sir W. ElHott's 

 original drawings ; figs, la, b, c, d, e, males, and fig. If, g, female, of the iret season 

 form; fig. h, being a dry season feiiutle from Bombay. 



Genus ERGOLIS. 



Ergolis, Boi^duval, Spec. Gen. Lep.i. p. 4, fig. 4 (1836). Westwond, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 409 (1851). 

 Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 43 (1881). Distant, Khop. Malayana, p. 137 (1882). de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, ii. p. 7 (1886). Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. i. p. 109 (189.'>). 



