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104) it is " abundant in Oudli and Umballa. Larva feeds on Nerium odorum, a 

 dozen of its silver pupae being seen on one busli, glittering like beautiful earrings." 

 Capt. Chaumette (Ent. M. Mag. 1865, 37) "obtained it all along the road from 

 Bombay to Sangor ; flying usually in the vicinity of the oleanders. Flight easy, not 

 moving its wings much, but soars about, never flying above ten feet from the ground." 

 Colonel Swinhoe says (P. Z. S. 1881, 603) that " C. Gore is taken at Hydrabad in 

 Sind, and is stated to be taken at Karachi, but has not been observed there by me." 

 Capt. Lloyd obtained it in Kattywar in 1873, and Mr. Wilkinson took it in Kutch. 

 It is " very plentiful at Mhow in March, rare in June " (Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1886, 421). 

 " Common everywhere in Bombay and the Dekkan all the year round " (Swinhoe, 

 P. Z. S. 1885, 126). Mr. G. P. Hampson (J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1888, 348) records it 

 from the Nilgiris. It is very common at Khorda in Orissa, according to Mr. W. C. 

 Taylor. In Calcutta, Mr. De Niceville says it is " an exceedingly plentiful insect 

 during the cold months. It has a slow, weak flight, and continually settles." At 

 Barrackpur, Mr. Rothney (Ent. M. Mag. 1882, 34) found it " very common from 

 March to October," and says that it " has a heavy lazy flight; frequenting the 

 shade of banian trees, bamboo topes, &c., and is very fond of settling on damp 

 ground. Frequently taken in ' coitu.' " Mr. Wood-Mason (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 

 1880, 226) records a single female specimen, forwarded in 1872 by the native col- 

 lector, Moti Ram, from Port Blair, Andaman Islands. This latter locality, however, 

 requires verification, as Mr. Wood-Mason subsequently remarks that no specimens 

 have since been received from the Andamans, 



CRASTIA ASELA (Plate 24, fig. 1, la, larva and pupal , b, c, d, (J ?). 

 JEuplcea Asela, Moore, Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 45; id. Lepidoptera of Ceylon, i. p. 11, 



pi. 6, fig. 2, 2a, larva and pupa (1880). Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 81 



(1882). 

 Crastia Asela, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soo. Lond. 1883, p. 277. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dark velvety olivaceous-brown, outer 

 borders broadly paler. Foreiving with a submarginal and less distinct lower mar- 

 ginal row of very small brownish- white spots, the former series curving to the costa 

 before the apex. Male with a short very slender sexual mark between the lower 

 median and submedian vein. Hindwing with a submarginal row of brownish- white 

 oval spots, and a marginal row of smaller round spots. Underside paler ; both wings 

 with the submarginal and marginal rows of spots more clearly defined ; each with a 

 small violet-white spot at end of the cell, and a contiguous discal curved series of 

 spots ; f orewing also with a small costal spot above end of the cell, and a brownish- white 

 streak below the median, the posterior border being cinereous-brown. Body dark 

 brown ; thorax in front and beneath, head, and palpi black, spotted with white ; legs 



