ISMENEINJS. 2?<: 



veins streaked only on their outer ends, thus leaving the whole space below the median 

 vein without markings. Hindwing with the ground colour purer white ; all the veins 

 greyish-blue, the black bands more uniform in width, covering the whole surface of the 

 wing with black and white lines except the cell, which is almost without markinu-s. 

 Antennse black ; palpi greyish-ochreous, with a lilack line on the outer sides, last joint 

 black ; head with a black spot at the base of each antenna ; body brown, thorax with 

 dull greyish-green and ochreous hairs ; body beneath and legs ochreous, abdomen with 

 lateral bands of ochreous and black, which are continued all round the upper side in a 

 dull and obscure form. 



Female. Upperside black, tinged with purple, except on the outer margin, which is 

 darker than the rest of the wing, purple streaks in the interspaces, giving the wing a 

 purple sheen in certain lights, two obscure pale spots in the middle of the disc of the 

 forewing in an oblique line, the upper one near the base of the second median inter- 

 space, the other in the middle of the next lower interspace. Cilia and underside as in 

 the male, but the black lines are darker and thicker and somewhat purple-black, the 

 ground colour has a bluer tint, and the pale hinder marginal space in the forewing is 

 more limited. 



Expanse of wings, $ % 2^^ to 2^'^^ inches. 



Larva, head squarish, same breadth as height, light brown-yellow in colour ; six 

 black spots transversely across the middle of the face ; a semicircle of four black spots 

 round the top of the face. Anal segment depressed, rounded at the extremity, witli 

 two black, shiny, sub-dorsal patches at the hinder margin. Colour of body French- 

 grey, suffused dorsally on segments 5 to 12 with light yellow; a black band covers the 

 front half of segments 6, 8 and 10 ; segments 4 and 12 have a large black patcli 

 above the lateral margin ; the rest is spotted and lined symmetrically with black. 



Pupa, light yellowish-green in colour ; a semicircle of orange on the front of the 

 head, round which is a circle of black spots ; from the centre of the spots arises a 

 conical, sharp, short tubercle ; along the front margin of the thorax is a dorsal streak 

 Hanked by a sub-dorsal one and a lateral black spot ; shoulders tipped with black ; a 

 lateral row of large abdominal black spots, one spot to each segment ; cremaster 

 triangular, black. 



Habits. — Eggs laid in batches of from five to twenty, in lines, on underside of leaf ; 

 larva gregarious while young ; after second moult makes a cell and eats the cuticle of 

 leaf in a quarter of a circle from midrib upwards to the edge of the leaf, feeding inside 

 the area thus marked off, only while in that stage. When grown, wanders to feed, 

 returnincr to its cell. 



This insect was never caught or seen in the district until a few years ago, when a 

 pupa was found by chance upon the ghats, rolled up in a leaf of strohilanthes ; the cells 

 of a skipper were found just overhead on a large creeper with thick, 5-digitate leaves, 



