104 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



sbaped yellowisli-ochreous patches, each edged b}' a black line, the middle and anal 

 patch each partly joined across the back ; segments bet\\^een the patches with red 

 and black spots. 



Pdpa. — Similar to that in CJiilasa. 



Habitat. — North-Western Himalayas. 



Life History.—" The female deposits her eggs on the young leaves of JIachilns 

 odoratissimus, N. 0. Laurinege, about the end of April. The larva is at first of a 

 reddish colour, but very soon turns black and white, and lies on the upper suface of 

 a leaf, where it greatly and protectively resembles a bird's dropping. After the 

 last moult it assumes the handsome appearance shown in our figures. The pupa, 

 remarkably like a broken-off twig of dead wood, is found in June, the imago 

 emerging the following spring " (P. W. Mackinnon, Journ. Bombay IN". H. Soc. 

 1898, 594). 



Distribution and Habits. — In Mr. W. Rothschild's Collection is a female 

 labelled " Cashmere." Specimens from Kujiar, taken at 6,000 feet elevation, in 

 September, by Capt. MacArthur, and from Sultanpur, Kulu, taken by Capt. G. 

 Young, are in Mr. I. H. Leech's Collection. A male, fi'om Thundiani, taken by 

 Col. J. W. Yerbury in May, and a female (Gopala type), taken in the Kangra 

 District, by the Rev. J. H. Hocking, are in the British Museum Collection. Capt. 

 T. Hutton says " it is by no means rare at Masuri, being found in woody situations 

 in April and May, dancing lightly over the tops of low bushes and trees, with a 

 sailing flight, gliding along without moving the wings" (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1847, 50). 

 Capt. A. M. Lang says it " appears rare, as I have only taken two specimens, both 

 in identically the same spot, in April, at Kasauli, on the first range of the 

 Himalayas, at 6,000 feet elevation. Bach of these specimens affected a high spray 

 of bramble, whence it dashed off for a rapid soar for a short distance, returning to 

 its post" (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, 487). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon found it "common 

 in Masuri in March, April, and Ma}^, and very easy to capture, as it returns 

 I'epeatedly to the same spot, even if temporarily driven off" (J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1898, 594). We possess males from Gurhwal and JSTyne Tal, Kumaou. Mr. F. 

 Godman has a male from Landour. 



Our Plate 509, fig. 1, larra and ptpa, is copied from Mr. Mackinnon's 

 published di'awiugs ; figs, la, b, male and female, typical Gopala, and figs. Ic, d, 

 from typical Govindra. 



CADUGOIDES EPYCIDES (Plate 510, fig. 1, la, b, c, J, e, J). 



Tainlio Epycides, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. Pap. pi. 0, f^g. 16, ^ (1864). Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. 

 AVieu. p. 308 (1S64). Moore, Tioc. Zool. Soc. 1S65, p. 756. Obertliur, Etud. Ent. iv. p. 100 



