42 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Pni'A. — " Ground-colour ochreous pinky-gi'ey, with sooty-blackish suffusions 

 and markings, more especially about the back of the head and the angular points. 

 Many examples are pale emerald-green with bright j^ellow spots and markings on 

 the back of the abdomen, others are pale ochreous-gTey with yellow markings, with 

 suffusions of a slightly darker shade. Of the specimens bred twenty-two wei'e dark 

 coloured, four were green, and two were grey. Head more or less bluntly bifid, 

 with a single notch on each ; sides of the head compressed, flattened, and ridged 

 over the eyes. A blunt projection, or process, at the base of the wings. Thorax 

 humped; posterior portion of the hump flattened, witli an inverted V-shaped rough 

 ridge, margined oiitwardly witli light colouring — varying according to the colour of 

 the chrysalis, the darker colour of the ridge passing in the form of a streak down 

 the sides, over tlie region of the spiracles, to the vent. Wing covers slightly but 

 angularly compressed at the waist at the point where the suspending thread passes 

 round. Two very slight projections more or less rounded at the apex of the wings, 

 one on the 5th and on the 6th segment — more prominent in some individuals than 

 in others. Back of the abdomen roughly shrivelled, coloration bright yellow in the 

 green fonn, and pale coloured in the darker forms, with two rows of very slightly 

 raised carunculous-tubercles, which are most prominent on the 3rd and 7th to 9th 

 segments, and which converge slightly towards the tail, leaving a broad medio-dorsal 

 space, which is usually either darker than the ground-colour in the green specimens, 

 or very much darker in the darker ones. Interspaces between the tubercles and 

 spiracles marked with faint striated longitudinal markings. The outline of the 

 spiracles marked by a slightly raised ridge in continuation of the outline of the 

 wings. Front view, tips of two pairs of legs raised ; breast not very highly angled ; 

 a raised dotted line along the hind margin of the wings, a dot between each vein ; 

 the middle of the abdomen somewhat flattened. The perfect insect emerges in 

 thirty and thirty-one days from date of changing to pupa." 



Food-Plants and Habits of Labva. — " Feeds on the Oommon Fennel (native 

 name Saumph), also on a species of Hemlock (native name Ahjuan). The larvae 

 feed on the flowers and seeds only, and will not eat the leaves. When feeding the 

 larv^ move about on the top of the clusters of flowers, returning to the stem to 

 rest. The larger larvEe prefer to rest almost at the bottom of the stalks. The 

 usual attitude when at rest, is with the head upwards, and tucked under the thoracic 

 segments " (Major H. C. Harford ; MS. Notes, Kausali). 



DiSTBiBDTiON. — Major H. B. Hellard obtained it in Kashmir, and Indus Valley 

 between the Dras river and Skardo, in July, August, and September. One specimen 

 taken on the Rajdiangan Pass, about 10,000 feet elevation, in September. Otiiers 

 also at Masuri, Simla, and Pangi in Busahir " (MS. Notes). Capt. R. Bayne Reed 

 also obtained it in Kashmir. Capt. A. M. Lang records it as " pretty common 

 in the N.W. Himalaya, on grassy downs and slopes, from t),000 to 10,000 feet 



