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Larva feeds on "Jamba" {Xylia dolahriformis), and is of the woodlouse foim 

 with a raised ridge along the back, furnished with six sharp, oblique, poijited 

 protuberances ; the anal segment is flattened, and the sides slope down to it, forming 

 nearly rectangular corners ; colour either green or pink, the protuberances being 

 generally tipped with brown, which occasionally extends and forms a saddle, as shown 

 in the illustration. 



Pupa fastened along the stalk by the tail only, smooth, except in the centre of 

 the abdomen above, where there are rough, sharpish protuberances ; its colour is green, 

 becoming browner as it nears the imago state, marked on the wing-covers and on the 

 back of the abdomen with pink. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Southern India. 



Distribution. — de Niceville records it from Travancore, Hampson from the 

 Nilgiris ; we have several examples of both sexes from Karwar, where Davidson, Bell 

 and Aitken bred it ; our descriptions and figures are from Karwar specimens, and we 

 give two forms of the larva from Davidson's original drawings. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Cheritra pallida, Sithon pallida, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 352, pi. 33, fig. 3. Habitat, Borneo. 

 Cheritra ochracea, Cheritra freja, var. ochracea, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 610. 

 Habitat, Borneo. 



Genus NEOCHERITRA. 



Neocheritra, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 252 (1885). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 402 (foot- 

 note) (1890). 



Eyes naked. Forewing with four sub-costal nervules in the male, three in the 

 female; vein 12 ends on costa opposite end of cell, 11 emitted from the middle of the 

 cell, 10 from one-fifth before the end, 9 (in the male only) out of 7 near the apex of 

 the wing, discocellulars upright, the lower the longer, vein 6 emitted from close to 

 upper end of cell, 5 from upper end of lower discocellular, vein 3 from near lower end 

 of cell, 2- from one-fourth before the end. Costa rounded, apex sub-acute in the male, 

 blunt in the female, outer margin somewhat convex, hinder angle rounded, hinder 

 margin convex in the male (with a tuft of hairs from near the base, covering a 

 corresponding depression on the hindwing), nearly straight in the female. Jlindwing, 

 vein 7 emitted from the middle of the cell, upper discocellular outwardly very oblique, 

 the lower the longer, slightly oblique, vein 5 from the upper end of the lower disco- 

 cellular, the bases of veins 3 and 2 rather close together, 3 from one-fourth before the 

 lower end of the cell, 2 from one-third. Costa arched at the base, then very oblique 

 to the apex, which is rounded, the wing produced hindwards but not truncate, slightly 



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