98 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



minute orange spot on the seventh and eleventh segments ; middle segments more 

 than twice as broad as they are long ; legs pale green, set well beneath the animal, 

 and rather close together. Full grown at the end of March. Feeds on Moesa 

 Montana. The larva when about to change into the pupal state, attaches itself to a 

 patch of silky-web, by the last segment, to the underside of a leaf of the food- 

 plant, with the head towards the apex, and is girt about the middle with another 

 web." 



Pdi'A. — " Length "oS to '70 of an inch. Fusiform, broadest in the middle, 

 tapering towards both ends, with the anterior end truncate-rounded, distinctly 

 broader than the posterior ; the whole pupa flattened, and of very slight depth even 

 ill the thickest part ; the divisions between the segments well-marked ; posterior 

 segment bluntly rounded ; head also rounded and divided in the middle at the apex 

 into two lobes by a shallow notch, the sides of which are parallel to one another 

 and at right angles to the bottom ; colour bright yellowish-green throughout, 

 marked above with rich emerald-green narrow lines arranged in au arabesque-like 

 pattern on the two outer-thirds ; a series of round spots along middle of the back on 

 the abdomen only, and a subdorsal line on either side interrupted at the segmental 

 constrictions. Under surface pale yellowish-green throughout, entirely unmarked. 

 Owing to the extremely depressed form of the pupa, the wing-cases are almost 

 entirely invisible from above, they show only by a very narrow emerald-green line 

 on each side of the thorax and two anterior abdominal segments. The whole 

 surface of the pupa is entirely smooth, without any hairs or shagreening whatever " 

 (G. C. Dudgeon, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1S90, 138). 



Habitat. — W. and B. Himalayas; Assam; Silhet ; Cachar ; Burma; Tenas- 

 serim ; ? Malay Peninsula ; Penang ; Siam ; W. and C. China ; Hong Kong ; 

 Hainan. 



Distribution. — We have examined, and verified, specimens of the wet-season 

 form from Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan, Assam, Khasia Hills, Chittagong — taken in 

 November, Bhamo, Mandalay, Rangoon — taken in July, Siam (type of AJlica), 

 W. and C. China ; and of the dry-season form from Masuri, Sikkiui — taken 

 in March, and Bhotan in April and May — by Mr. G. 0. Dudgeon, Khasia Hills, 

 Toungoo, Moulmein, Thoungyeen — taken in February, East Pegu — taken in March 

 and April by Mr. Doherty, Beeling, Tenasserim — taken in March and April by 

 Capt. Watson, Mergui Archipelago — taken by Dr. J. Anderson, Penang (Coll. 

 Moore), Hong Kong — taken by J. J. Walker, R.N., and from Hainan (type of 

 Confucitis). 



" This is a widely distributed species, occurring in the Himalayas, from Masuri 

 and eastwards as far as Upper Assam, in Silliet, Cachar, and Tenasserim" (Butt, 

 Ind. ii. 308). 



