242 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



palpi orange, with a black stripe on the outer sides, last joint black ; head and body 

 above coucolorous with the wings ; head and thorax covered with dull greenish hairs ; 

 below, the pectus and lower part of the abdomen are orange, the rest of the body and 

 legs greenish-black. 



Female. Upperside olive-brown, altogether of a paler and different colour to the 

 male, the basal third of the forewing and the basal half of the hindwing covered with 

 greyish-blue hairs, the orange portion at the anal angle of the hindwing more limited, 

 and both wings are narrower than they are in the male. Underside colour and 

 markings as in the male, but the hinder marginal pale space on the forewing is usually 

 much paler. 



Expanse of wings $ 2-^% to 2^*0, ? 2^V to '^i% inches. 



Larva common at Masuri and in the Dun from March to September : feeds on 

 Mdiosma pungens, Wall., and Sabia campanulata, Wall., both natural order Sabiacce. 

 Two types of larva have been bred and are here figured. Further observations are 

 necessary to determine conclusively whether these very differently marked (the colours 

 in both are the same) larvss really produce the same species of butterfly ; and, if they do, 

 if the colour is sexual, (de Rhe-Philipe.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — We have both sexes from the Khasia Hills, Simla and Sikkim ; 

 Watson says it is common in the Nilgiris, Evans records it from the Palni Hills, Elwes 

 from the Naga Hills, Hannyngton from Kumaon, de Rhe-Philipe from Masuri, Moore 

 from Tenasserim and Kangra, Manders from the Shan States, Wood-Mason and de 

 Niceville from Cachar, Elwes and de Niceville from Tavoy ; it does not appear to have 

 been recorded from anywhere in the Bombay Presidency. 



RHOPALOCAMPTA CRAWPURDI. 



Plate 750, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, $. 



Choaspes crawfurdi, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 372 (1886). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 9 (1891). 

 Ehopalocampta crawfurdi, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 554. Watson, 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 437. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 307. 

 Rhtpalocampta suhcaudata crawfordi, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 79. 

 Ismene henjamini, Druce (nee Guerin), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 358. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside darker and blacker than in benjamini, the greyish-blue 

 hairs on the thorax and at the base of both wings brighter in colour, the orange- 

 ochreous anal space larger, the anal orange cilia longer, making the anal angle more 

 produced, the coloration and markings on the underside very similar to that m 

 benjamini, but the anal patch is paler and more yellow\ 



Female very different to that sex of henjamini. Upperside with the wings much 



