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in continuation whicli is angled and ends in a mark like the letter W, its end close 

 to the abdominal margin one-fourth from the anal angle, the space outside this band 

 darker than the rest of the wing, with a double series of thick, paler brown, sub- 

 marginal somewhat lunular marks ; anal lobe with a large black spot, another in the 

 first interspace, crowned with orange, the space between them with two marks as if in 

 continuation of the double sub-marginal series, terminal line dark brown ; tails white. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white, club with an orange tip ; frons greyish-white, with a 

 black middle stripe, eyes ringed with white ; head and body blackish-brown above, 

 greyish-white beneath. 



Female. Upperside brown, with a violet tint, the colour shading darker towards 

 the margins. Forewing with a moderately broad outer marginal blackish-brown band. 

 Hindwing with the costal space and abdominal fold slightly paler than the rest of the 

 wing, a blackish-brown even band on the outer margin, about as broad as it is on the 

 forewing, a sub-marginal series of white spots, edged outwardly with black, in the 

 interspaces, commencing between the tails, decreasing in size upwards and becoming 

 obsolete above the middle, these spots vary much in size in different examples, and are 

 sometimes only very slightly indicated ; anal lobe, tails and terminal markings as in 

 the male. Underside with the space inside the discal bands usually pure white, the 

 outer colour and markings as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ I5 to ly^,j inches. 



Larva, feeds on Loranthus elasticus, preferring the flowers, is in form like 

 that of T. longinus {Pratapa cippus), Fabricius, but all the segments are well defined 

 and slightly elevated in the middle. The third and fourth segments are slightly 

 larger than the others, but not nearly to the same extent as in T. longinus. Colour 

 a uniform dark brown, often sufi'used with grey, with the exception of the third and 

 fourth segments, which are sometimes light brown on the back. 



Pupa, fastened by the anal extremity along a leaf, is like that of T. longinus, but 

 smooth on the thorax, with four abdominal ridges ; head square, colour chiefly brown, 

 but the wing-covers are greenish, and the abdomen has a greenish ground, marked 

 with pinkish-brown, while the thorax has some white markings. When looked at 

 from above, it has the appearance of a human head, like the puppe of the genus 

 Spalgis. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Watson from Chin 

 Lushai, by Davidson, Bell and Aitken from Karwar, by de Niceville from Sikkini, 

 Orissa, and Travancore ; we have received a fair number of examples of both sexes 

 from the Khasia Hills, a pair of which we figure. 



