182 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



silvery scales attached ; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings grey. 

 Underside yellowish-white, more tinted with yellow than in lohita, bands somewhat 

 similarly disposed, but quite black, with almost complete silvery lines running down 

 their centres, the bands on both wings free from each other and wider apart, the lower 

 part of the discal band of the hindwing quite free and not touching either the medial 

 or sub-marginal band, the anal patch large and dark orange-red, a silvery line running 

 through it in continuation of the sub-marginal band. 



Female. Upperside pale brown, the band of the underside showing rather 

 conspicuously through both wings ; anal patch and underside exactly as in the male. 

 Antennae black, with white dots on its sides, tip of club red ; frons black, with a white 

 stripe on each side; head and body above and beneath eoncolorous with the wings, 

 abdomen with red segmental bands on its sides, tarsi with black spots. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? I-/0 to 1^% inches. 



Egg, hemispherical or domed, flattened on the underside, strongly reticulated or 

 honeycombed on the upper surface. It is laid singly, during the day, into the joints 

 of bracts, stems or leaves of the food plants of the larva, or even on adjacent parts of 

 the host plants. 



Larva feeds on Henslowia frutescens, Champ., in Kwangtung, also on Loranthus 

 chinevsis, DC, and Viscuvi orientale, Willd. ; when full grown, its general colour on 

 the upperside in the wet-season is yellowish, with a double interrupted dorsal line of 

 dark brown, most of the third segment is dark brown ; an indistinct transverse dorsal 

 reddish bar on each segment, each side surrounded with dark brown, below these 

 markings uniform greenish-yellow, the whole body irrorated with light and dark 

 specks, the whitish ones chiefly due to extremely short hairs or stubble ; the second 

 seoment is covered with a dark brown shiny chitinous shield, as is the last segment ; on 

 the twelfth segment are two dark brown chitinous tubulures on each side, with a few 

 hairs on the edges of the openings ; from these tubulures the larva when irritated 

 extrudes a white gland or stout filament which it vibrates rapidly and quickly 

 withdraws again. The body is fringed laterally just above the legs with stiff white 

 hairs ; legs, prolegs, and underside glaucous-green, head nearly black. During the dry 

 season the larvae are very dark in general colouring, chiefly various shades of brown ; 

 the wet-season markings very obscure. During the day the larvae either remain in 

 their leaf shelters or more frequently in the ants' nests ; some of these ants' nests are 

 a fair size, but most of them very small, made of one leaf turned over and roofed over 

 with felted material, or two or three leaves are employed, each little nest containing 

 some aphides and ants and occasionally a larva or two of Spindasis. The larvae issue 

 forth from their shelters at night to feed, and are constantly attended by some of the 

 ants, who often stand on the back of a larva, apparently caressing it with their 

 antennae and seeming to extract some juice from between the joints of the chitinous 



