180 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



silvery lines inside tliem. Forewing witli a sub-basal bar from the costa connected 

 with a short streak from the base, another from the costa across the middle of the cell, 

 both with some suS'used blackish below them, an outwardly oblique bar from the costa 

 across the end of the cell to the sub-median vein, with a small blackish narrow and 

 inwardly bent short bar in continuation, two short bars from the costa meeting 

 hindwards, and a sub-marginal even band which ends close to the end of the oblique 

 band in a similar manner, a marginal even band, these two bands so close together as 

 to leave but a thin line of the ground colour between them, marginal line black, with 

 an inner fine pale thread. Hindwing with the marginal bands and lines as in the 

 forewing, and four bands at fairly equal distances apart, all rather broad, leaving but 

 narrow spaces of the ground colour between them ; the first is basal, continued 

 hindwards in the form of a curved streak close along the abdominal margin, the other 

 three are ante-medial, medial, and post-medial, all arising from the costa, the two inner 

 ones touching the end of the basal streak and the ends of each other on the upperside 

 of the anal orange spot, the post-medial band narrows gradually hindwards and touches 

 the medial band at vein 2 ; the anal orange patch is about the size it is on the 

 upperside, and contains two similar black spots and silvery scales. Antennae black, 

 with white dots at the sides, club with a red tip ; frons black, with a w^hite stripe on 

 each side ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings, legs greyish- 

 white, without markings. 



Female, like the male above and below, the violet-blue tint on the upperside 

 somewhat paler and duller, the colour of the wings in some examples more brown. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly-Q to ly% inches. 



Larva, feeds on Dioscorea and Xylia, and also on " kindal " and on the guava, is 

 shaped like that of Arhopala, but more rounded, very soft and velvety, and with 

 longish hairs on the sides ; the head is large and square, and the anal segment 

 protected by a hard, flat, glossy plate, and there are two short processes on the 12th 

 segment as in A. vulcanus, Fabricius. In colour the head and anal cover are glossy 

 brown, the rest of the body being dark green with a broken white band on each side, 

 or dark brown mottled with lighter shades. 



Pupa of the Arhopala type, but much narrowed ; the back is ridged, but not 

 sharply so, and the head blunt. In colour it is dark glossy brown. It is fastened by 

 the extremity only, along a leaf (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, China, Java, 

 Philippines. 



Distribution. — The type came from Java ; it is a common species throughout 

 India and Ceylon ; frequents low thorny bushes ; when disturbed, flies round and darts 

 about very fast, but does not go far, soon returning to settle. 



