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upper median interspace, and one sonetimes in the lower median interspace, 

 another also obliquely outward between the median and subtnedian veins, followed 

 also by a smaller spot below the cell ; costal maro^in generally black-speckled : 

 exterior margin and up the veins for a short distance also black. HivdiviiKj with 

 two small black spots in middle of the cell, two at end of the cell, another on tlie 

 costa above the inner cell-spot, and a curved discal series of five or six decreasing 

 spots ; all these spots being occasionally more or less obsolescent ; beyond is a black 

 marginal band traversed by a row of small pale ochreous, or wliitish spots. Under- 

 side. Both wings paler, glossy ochreous-red, the disc of hindwing palest and 

 almost yellow. Foreiniiuj with the black spots and marginal border as above, but 

 less prominent, the marginal border inwardly-edged with yellowish-white. Hind whig 

 with a basal cluster of five black-ringed yellowish-white spots, two costal bhick spots, 

 three discoidal, and a discal outer-curved series of smaller spots ; the outer marginal 

 black band with prominent larger yellowish-white spots, this band also being 

 inwardly-edged with yellowish-white. Bodij. Head, thorax, and base of abdomen 

 above and beneath black, spotted with white ; abdomen above and beneath ochreous, 

 with slender segmental black bands ; palpi ochreous-white, setae beneath black ; legs 

 blackish above and dusky-ochreous or greyish-ochreous beneath; antennae black. 



Female. Upperside paler than in male, with the black markiugs broader, and 

 the marginal band on hindwing with larger spots. Underside duller coloured than 

 ui male ; black markings as on upperside, the outer marginal edging being paler. 



Expanse <? 2 to 21^0. ? '^h ^^^h inches. 



Lakva. — " Cylindrical, slender ; armed with six lougitudinal rows of fine 

 branched-sjaines. Colour reddish-brown with an oily-gloss ; much paler on the 

 head, second and last segment ; an unwholesome-looking insect, doubtless protected 

 like the butterfly." 



Pupa. — "Suspended perpendicularly. Long, slender, smooth; two lateral angles 

 on the thorax ; head quadrate ; colour creamy-white, with broad longitudinal bars 

 of purplish-black spotted with orange." (Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. 8. 

 1890, 268). 



Habitat. — India ; Ceylon. 



Food-plant op Larva. — " We found the larvae in the Kanara District, Bombay, 

 jjleutifully in July, August, and September, feeding- on the wild passion-flower 

 {Modecca judiitata) " (Davidson and Aitken, I.e.) 



Distribution AND Habits. — "It occurs in the moister tracts of Eastern Conti- 

 nental and throughout peninsular India and in Ceylon. Mr. L. de NiceviUe has 

 taken it commonly in Calcutta throughout the year. It is not uncommon in Sikkini, 

 and Mr. E. T. Atkinson found it in the submontane districts of Kumaon, which is 

 probably its western limit in the North. It is found in the moister parts of the 



