136 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



red, outer tail black, botli tipped with white. Underside dull, pale, pinkish-grey, 

 markings darker, fine and somewhat indistinct. Forewing with a nearly straight discal 

 line of disconnected, linear marks, one in each interspace, from above vein 6 to the 

 sub-median nervure, the series rather closer to the outer margin than is usual. 

 JJindwing with a similar but somewhat irregular outwardly curved series, very sinuous 

 below its middle and bent inwards in a W-shape to the abdominal margin, both wings 

 with indications of a sub-marginal series ; anal lobe with a dull red spot, crowned 

 with pale orange, a smaller very indistinct spot in the first median interspace, with 

 some white scales in the interspace between them, a terminal dark line. Cilia of 

 both wings blackish-brown. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with a red tip ; 

 frons red ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside of a duller shade of blue than in the male. Foreicing with 

 the black borders broader, and, in consequence of the absence of the sex mark, more 

 even. liindwing with the costal and outer marginal bands rather broad and of a dull 

 blackish-brown. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l-^^^ to ly% inches. 



Larva. — In September, on the Godhali Hill close to Karwar, we obtained five 

 small larvae feeding on the velvety Loranthus tom.entosus, which we hoped would turn 

 out to be Camena cippu", Fabricius, as they closely resembled the larvse of C. deva, 

 Moore. Three of these died, but the others, to our surprise, turned into this species. 

 They were very similar to those of C. deva, but the end of the anal segment was 

 prolonged into two short points. The colour also was redder, and they had two lateral 

 red lines. Just before they became pupas, the central segments became contracted, 

 and a triangular green mark, meeting on the back, appeared on each side. 



Pupa, suspended along a leaf or stem, and was very similar in shape to that of 

 Camena cleohis, Godart ; it had, however, two extra points on the second segment, a 

 tubercle on the shoulder, and a conical lateral tubercle on segments 6, 7, and 8, as also 

 a roughened dorsal rising on the same segments. In colour it was a dark apple-green, 

 whitened on the wing cases ; the last five segments yellow-brown, marked dorsally 

 with black and white ; head points pure white ; a white mark along the sides of the 

 thorax sufi'used with brown. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, South India, Burma. 



Distribution. — The male type from Sikkim and the female type from the Kilgiris 

 are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; de Niceville says there is a female from 

 Rangoon in the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, and a male from the Khasia Hills in coll. 

 Hamilton ; Davidson, Bell and Aitken record it from Karwar ; we have a male from the 

 Khasia Hills, and there are both sexes in the B. M. from which our description and 

 figures are taken. 



