144 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



a black anal spot, anotlier in the first interspace, both capped with very pale orange ; 

 a sub-marginal series of pale grey lunules, and indications of another series close to the 

 margin. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with a red tip ; frons white, with 

 two brown lines in it ; head and body above and below eoncolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside paler and duller in colour than the male, the marginal black 

 bands similar, without the bulge on the costal band of the hindwing, there being of 

 course no sex mark, the outer portion of the blue area on the forewing often very much 

 paler than the rest of the wing, all the veins on both wings fairly black. Underside as 

 iu the male, the discal and sub-marginal bands more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ lyo to l-j^ inches. 



Larva, feeds on the small velvety Loranthus tomentosus ; it resembles in an 

 extraordinary way the leaf of the food-plant, so much so that we have had to examine 

 the plant again and again before the caterpillars had all been found when changing 

 their food. Jt is of a woodlouse form, but with a distinct sharp ridge on the back, 

 making a section almost triangular. When it is extended or bent, the segments are 

 widely divided from one another. The texture is velvety, like the leaf on which it is 

 found ; in colour it is dull greenish, with a pinkish-yellow tinge on the sides and. the 

 ridges of the back. 



Pupa, fastened by the tail only, along a leaf or stalk, is smooth, blunt at the head, 

 with a hoof-shaped anal segment ; the thorax is humped and convex ; the abdomen is 

 broad and high at segment 7, the fifth segment being suddenly higher than the fourth, 

 making the dorsal constriction behind the thorax very pronounced ; after segment 9 

 the abdomen becomes quickly narrower. The colour is white, with a broad lateral 

 abdominal band meeting across segment 5 dorsally ; wings white, with green-brown 

 longitudinal streak ; belly white ; whole surface of pupa oily -looking. (Davidson, Bell 

 and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma. 



Distribution. — The types came from Kanara ; we have both sexes from the same 

 locality (Karwar), which we figure ; Doherty records it from Kapkot, Kumaon, 4,000 

 feet elevation, Watson from the Chin Hills, Mackinnou and de Niceville from Masuri, 

 Manders from the Shan States, INIoore from Ceylon, de Niceville from Dehra Dun, 

 Malda, and Burma ; we have it also from Sikkim, and have received many examples 

 from the Khasia Hills. 



PRATAPA ICETAS. 



Plate 731, figs. 1, i , l<a, $ , lb, ^ . 



lolaus icetas, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 44, pi. 18, figs. 6, 7, <J (IS65). 



Pratapa icetas, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 251. 



Camena icetas, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 342 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 636. 



