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Bry-seawn Brood (Plate 542, fig. 3 cJ, 3a, b ?). 

 A2'pias Ares, Swinlioe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 138, (^ ? . 



Male. Upperside. Forewing with a diffused broader grej'-black scaled outer- 

 marginal band. Hindwivg unmarked. Underside with the apicnl area of forewing, 

 and entire hindwing tinted with very pale yellow. 



Female. Upperside. Foretvhuj with the cell-band and the marginal band 

 somewhat narrower than in specimens of the intermediate form, the connecting 

 streak being entirely absent. Ehuhoing unmarked. Underside. Foreiving with the 

 cell-band and marginal band faintly indicated, the apical area pale yellow tinted. 

 Hindwing pale yellow tinted ; the discal fascia faintly indicated. 



Expanse, cJ ? 2 to Sj^ inches. 



Larva. — Cylindrical, slightly tapering at each end, anal segment slightly bifid ; 

 colour, green. 



PcPA. — Attached to a leaf. Head with a short frontal snout; a thoracic-dorsal 

 acute prominence, a medial-abdominal lateral angular process on each side (described 

 from Sir W. Elliot's drawing, Madras, 1854). 



Habitat. — North- Western, Central, South-Eastern, and South India ; Ceylon. 



Note. The Fabrician type specimens, female, of A. Libythea, are preserved in 

 the Banksian Collection at the British Museum. 



DrsTKiBDTiON, Habits, Larva, etc. — Mr. L. de Niceville records '"'a single female 

 in Col. A. M. Lang's collection, taken at Masuri, "W. Himalaya, ou June 17th, 1868, 

 at 7,000 feet elevation" (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, 591). We possess two 

 females labelled " Punjab." A male from Delhi is in the Calcutta Museum. 

 Mr. W. S. Atkinson, in his MS. Notes, writes, " Plains of Bengal ; not common." 

 We possess a male from Balasore, Lower Bengal, taken by Mr. Arthur Grote. 

 Mr. W. 0. Taylor records it as " common at Khorda in Orissa " (List, p. 15). The 

 late Sir W. Elliot " found the larva in Madras feeding on Gratseva Boxburghii, in 

 July, 1854, changing to pupa July 25th, the imago emerging July 29th." Capt. 

 B. Y. Watson found it " not uncommon in Madras, from May to August " (J. Bombay 

 N. H. Soc. 1890, 268). Col. C. Swinhoe obtained ''Libythea in Bombay, from July 

 to December, in Pooua October to April ; the form Ares in Poena from November to 

 March" (P. Z. S. 1885, 138), also Libythea in Mhow, June, and Ares also in Mhow, 

 in January " {id. I.e. 1886, 431), his types of retexta being taken in " Bombay and 

 Poona from July to December" (Ann. N. H. 1890, 360). Messrs. J. Davidson and 

 E. H. Aitken write, " We did not get this butterfly in Kanara, but reared a good 

 many .in Bombay during April and May, on Gapparis horrida. Tlie Jaroa is long, 

 green, somewhat depressed, and has the rough surface and general aspect of a 

 Terias, or a Gatopsilia, but tlie anal extremity tapers a little and is slightly but 



