6 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



Female, above and below like the male, but the white spots on the forewing above 

 are larger. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1 to If':^- inches. 



Larva, pale green, the segments armed with elongated divergent processes. Feeds 

 on Eu2?horbiacse (Moore). Feeds on the flowers or young shoots of "Pitkuli" 

 (Eugenia zeylanica), but also on Hopea and other things (we reared one on a common 

 garden croton) ; is of a pale green, with a line of long, pink protubarances along the 

 Ijack, the last curved outwards and upwards, two protuberances curved outwards on the 

 sides of the last segment, and on the fourth segment a straight, sharp-pointed one, low 

 down laterally ; the line of dorsal protuberances branches near the head into two. 



Pupa, green, becoming browner as it nears the imago state, marked on the wing- 

 covers and on the back of the abdomen with pink, perfectly smooth, fastened along a 

 stalk by the tail only. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Central and Southern India, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — We have it from Kandy and Trincomali, in Ceylon, also from 

 Trevandrum. We took it in Bombay and Poona ; Hampson records it from the 

 Nilgiris, 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation ; Moore records it from Calcutta and Kanara ; de 

 Niceville says there is a single example in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Sibsaghar, 

 in Upper Assam, and that W. C. Taylor took it in Orissa, Minchin in Ganjam and 

 Bangalore, and Wade at Kandy and Galle. 



Genus HORAGA. 



Horaga, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 98 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 459 (1886). de NicevOle, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 414 (1890). 



Eyes naked, in neuration very near to Rathlnda. Veins 12, 11, and 10 lie 

 closer together than they do in Ratldnda, 12 ends on costa opposite the end of the cell, 

 11 emitted from the middle of the cell, and is only slightly bowed upwards towards 12, 

 10 at more than one-third before end; middle discocellular much shorter than the 

 lower, more in a straight line than in Eathinda, vein 3 emitted some little distance 

 before the lower end of the cell ; wing short, triangular, costa gently arched, apex 

 acute, outer margin even, slightly oblique. Antennse less than half the length of the 

 costa of forewing, gradually thickening to a pointed club. 



Type, Theda onyx, Moore. 



HORAGA ONYX. 

 Plate 706, figs. 5, <? , 5a, ? , 5, b, $. 



Thccla omjx, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 30 (1857). 



Horaga onyx, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 247. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 416 (1890). 

 Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 640. Swiahoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 305. Mackinnon and 

 de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 387, pi. V, figs. 18a, 18b, larva. 



