116 LEPIDOPTEBA INDIOA. 



externally. Underside slaty-grey. Forewing with a thin brown, nearly straight band, 

 slightly outwardly oblique from near the costa to vein 2. Hindwing with a similar 

 band, nearly straight from the costa to vein 2, where it curves in a W-shape to the 

 abdominal margin just above the anal angle, touching the end of the sub-marginal 

 series ; both wings with a double sub-marginal series of grey lunular marks outwardly 

 edged wdth whitish, indistinct on the forewing ; anal lobe black, with a small orange 

 mark on its upperside ; a black spot in the first interspace capped with orange, a bluish- 

 grey mark with a white line above and another below it, marginal line brown, becoming 

 black between the upper tail and the anal lobe, with a white inner thread which becomes 

 obsolete before reaching the apex. Antenuse black, ringed with white, club with an 

 orange tip ; frons white, head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside paler than in the male. Forewing with a whitish patch in the 

 upper disc, the marginal black bands similar. Hindwing with the costal space blackish, 

 outer marginal line with an inner white thread and a series of small blackish marks. 

 Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 r\ ^o IfV inches. 



Larva and Pupa, June 24th. — Found several eggs of Camena clcohis* Godart, on 

 Lorantlius hicolor, Linn, (vernacular name Banda), at Mussoorie, in the Western 

 Himalayas. The eggs were laid either on the stems or on the underside of the leaves. 

 In shape they are spherical, and covered with honeycomb-like indentations. The 

 larva emerges either from the side or the top of the egg, and eats a small round hole 

 in the shell to get out. It does not eat the shell after it emerges. At the same time 

 was found a larva of a lycsenid butterfiy on the underside of a leaf, and it bore a 

 striking protective resemblance to the pink and yellow shades of the edge of the leaf, 

 on which it rested quite flat, with no legs or claspers visible. The larva was of the 

 usual onisciform shape, except that it was a little stouter than usual posteriorly, and 

 much stouter anteriorly, so that the outline was roughly that of a club. The whole 

 larva was yellowish-green, except a faint pink patch on the anterior segments, beneath 

 which the head is usually withdrawn. This larva changed its skin on the 26th, 

 and died on the 29 th. 



July 7th. — On a quantity of Banda brought into the house, two lycsenid 

 eggs were found, and placed in a very small bottle. July 13th. — A very minute 

 larva emerged from one of the eggs. Length one-sixteenth of an inch. It fed 

 on one of the leaves, and was most difficult to distinguish from its food-planr, 

 and would not have been discovered had I not seen the hole in the egg. July 19th. — 

 The larva has changed its skin and is now a quarter of an inch long. Colour 

 green. The larva is very depressed, with a pink spot on the " hood," by which is 



* Wrongly identified {teste de Niceville), should be Tajuria diseus, Hewitson. 



