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only under the microscope ; middle median branch emitted at a very short distance 

 before lower end of the cell, upper branch much arched, lower branch at a little 

 beyond one-fourth before the end ; submedian vein straight ; inner vein recurved. 

 Head small, with a somewhat long frontal tuft; eyes densely hairy ; thorax large, 

 densely clothed with fine long hairs, woolly in front ; abdomen long, rather stout, 

 glossy, sparsely clothed with very fine short hairs ; antennae short, stout, gradually 

 thickening to the tip, articulations prominent ; palpi porrected, short, ascending to 

 level of the middle of the eyes, covered with fine hairs and basally clothed with fine 

 long hairs beneath, apical joint cylindrically-oval and compactly clothed with short 

 fine hairs ; forelef/s short, pectoral, femur of viale clothed with fine long hairs ; tibia 

 and tarsus hairy; tarsus two-thirds the length of tibia, single-jointed, unarmed ; 

 forelegs of female somewliat longer and more slender, much less hairy, the hairs 

 shorter, finer, especiall}' those on the tibia and tarsus, which are more bristly ; the 

 tarsus thicker, five jointed, first joint nearly as long as the other four altogether, 

 the latter joints each witli a short, lateral, very fine and delicate spine, and the 

 terminal joint furnished with a pair of small, rather long, prominent, stoutish, 

 forward-projected claws, which latter are much curved and closely approximate at 

 their base ; below these claws is a pair of paronychia, and a pulvillus. 



Type.— C. Buddha. 



Habits. — -As observed in the Western Himalayas, Galincuja Buddha "frequents 

 the banks of heavily wooded streams, from 3500 to 6000 feet elevation. It is 

 purely a forest insect, and generally occurs from March to July. It is very fond of 

 settling on wet sand or gravel : when disturbed it flies off with a Papilio-like flight, 

 and is very strong on the wing " (A. E. Young). 



MiMiCEY. — The species of Calinaga, are, probably, mimetic. G. Budda, Gautama 

 and Brahma resembling the common Euploeine butterfly Tirumala Limnlace, and 

 C. Sudassana the Gaduga Ti/tia. 



CALINAGA BUDDHA (Plate 390, figs. 1, la, h, ^J ? ). 



Calinaga Buddha^ Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, i. p. 163, pi. 3a, fig. 5, ^ (1857). 



? Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 138, pi. 47, J". 

 Calinaga Buddha (part) de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. ii. p. 143 (1886). 



Imago.- — Male and female. Upperside fuliginous-black; veins black. Forewing 

 with a transverse submarginal row of somewhat creamy-white or greyish-white 

 rounded spots, a discal parallel row of irregular-shaped longitudinal streaks, which 

 commence narrowly between the subcostals and widen posteriorly to above the sub- 

 median, in which latter interspace the streak is much elongated, extending to the 

 base of the interspace and is longitudinally divided by a slender black line ; two lono-i- 



