232 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



It also occurs io tlie Malay Peninsula ; Sumati-a ; Siam ; and Tonkin. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 4G2, fig. 1 represents tlielarvEe in its various stages, 

 copied from Major Harford's original drawiugs ; fig. la is a male from Manpuri, 

 "W. India, fig. lb, a normal (rammon) from Masari. On Plate 463, the 2nd form of 

 female (Polyfes) fig. 1, lb, from Ceylon, la, from Nepal, Ic, from Calcutta, Id, from 

 Calicut, S. India. Oa Plate 4G4, the 3rd furm of female {Romulus) figs. 1, la, from 

 Ceylon, lb, from Calicut, Ic, from Bomba}^, and Id, from Calcutta. 



LAERTIAS SAKOUTALA (riate 4G5, fig. 1, la, ^). 



PapiHo Sa/icnlala, Hemison, Tnn?. 'EiA. Qoc. Lond. 1852, p. 21, pi. 5, fiK. l,c?. Duherty, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 250. Euthscliild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 313 (1895). de Nk-6ville, Journ. 

 Bombay, N. H. Soc. 1898, p. 693. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black ; cilia slenderly alternated with -white. 

 Foreiciiir/ with slightly-defined slender longitudinal pale ochreous scaled cell-streaks 

 and similar scaled outer vein-streaks. lUndivlng with a short tail ; a transverse 

 curved medial-discal grey-scaled macular band, composed of seven spots, the three 

 iipper quadrate or outwardly dentate, the lower four narrower, more elongate, and 

 posteriorly decreasing to above anal angle, and in the type specimen there is also a 

 small anal slender grey lunule ; the outer marginal dark area being very sparsely 

 speckled with blue scales. 



Underside. Forewing paler ; fuliginous-black, the cell and outer vein scaled- 

 streaks grey, the latter most defined. Hiridwiiif/ black ; the transverse discal 

 macular band as above, the upper spot with a contiguous outer reddish lunule, the 

 next spot with a grey and blue-scaled lunule, the sixth or penultimate lower spot 

 Avith an outer cluster of red and blue scales, and the lowest with an outer slender 

 red lunule, followed by a sub-marginal small red lunule in the lower median 

 interspace; the cilia inwardly edged with a slender white-scaled lunule, the subanal 

 one being broader. Body, legs, and antennjB black ; front of thorax and head white 

 spotted. 



Female. Unknown. 



Expanse, S 3|- to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Silhet ; IVaga Hills ; Sikkira ; Masuri ; Dehra Dun. 



Distribution. — The type specimen is stated by Mr. Hewitson to be from Silhet. 

 Mr. W. Doherty, I.e., records it from the "Naga Hills." A male, from " Sikkim," 

 from Mr. Otto MiUler's collection, is in Mr. Walter Rothschild's possession. Mr. L, 

 de Niceville records "a single male, from Masuri, in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 and another male from Dehra Dun, in his own possession, which has the usual discal 

 series of white spots on the upperside of the hindwing almost entirely obliterated, 



