250 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



indistinct, broad, discal fascia rather darker than the ground colour of the wing. 

 Antennse black, the shaft below the clul) dull ochreous beneath ; palpi greyish-white, 

 with a brown line on each side ; the wings narrower than in H. coulteri. 



Female, like the male above and below, but somewhat paler, the semi-hyaline 

 spots in the forewing always larger, and very much as in H. coulteri ; on the underside 

 the hinder marginal pale space is larger and paler, its upper end touching the lowest 

 spot ; and in the hindwing the base and outer portions are somewhat more purple- 

 tinted. 



Expanse of wings, J ? 2 inches. 



Larva, very similar to that of H. chromus, Cramer, except that the head is 

 broader than high and of a dark brown colour, light towards the vertex. Segment 2 

 is smaller than the head ; somewhat swollen, glabrous and shiny. Last segment 

 broadly rounded, flattish, thick, dorsally dark and shiny. The surface of the body 

 is covered fairly densely with longish, white, erect hairs ; it is much hairier than 

 H, chromus. Colour mauve-green (never as dark as R. chromus), densely spotted 

 with small yellow spots ; a double dorsal yellow line ; a sub-dorsal, lateral and 

 marginal yellow line ; a lateral black spot on segments 3 and 6. Length, 34 mm. 



Pupa, very similar in shape to that of B. sena, Moore, but without the dorsal 

 patch on the thorax. Colour pink on abdomen, dirty green-white on the wings, 

 thorax and head ; a long black dorsal streak on front slope of thorax reaching to front 

 margin ; a short dorsal black streak on hinder margin of same ; a dorsal black mark 

 on segment 13 ; two black marks on the inner margin of the eye ; head-point and 

 cremaster black. Length, 25 mm. The imago is generally found in dry situations on 

 the slopes of hills in rather open jungle, where the food-plant is found. Extremely 

 common throughout the northern, above-ghat portions of the district from December 

 to June. The females may be seen in the afternoons, laying their very small pink 

 eggs on the young shoots of Mlllettia racemosa, Ben., a large woody creeper. It is a 

 butterfly of very rapid flight. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — ]\Ialacca, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, India, Burma, Ceylon, Andamans, 

 Tonkin, Hong Kong, Philippines. 



Distribution. — The type came from Malacca ; it is a common species fairly well 

 distributed all over India and Burma. We possess many examples from various 

 localities. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Hasora discolor, Goniloba discolor, Felder, Wien Ent. Mon. iii. p. 405 (1859). Ismene discolor, 



Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. iii. pi. 72, fig. 17 (1867). Habitat, Java. 

 Hasora mijra, Ismene myra, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. Ismene, pi. i. fig. 3, (J (1867). Hasora myra. 



Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 303. Habitat, Java, Sumatra. 



