104 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



is also recorded byMr E. C. Cotes, iu " Notes on Indian Insect Pests," 1889, p. 32, as 

 being parasitic on a Liparid Moth, referred to, by liim, as Dasychira Thwaitesii. 



TREPSICHEOIS KALINGA. 



Euplaa (Trepsichrois) Kalinga, Doherty, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 256. 



Imago. — " Male. Differs from the male of Linncei only in the less brilliant blue 

 of the forewing, with its spots larger and move distinctly white ; and in the smaller 

 male patch of the hindwing, extending neither to the apex of the cell nor to the 

 lower median branch. Female, almost indistinguishable from the male, except in the 

 absence of the male patch and the presence of a line of obscure whitish submarginal 

 dots on the hindwing. A few paler streaks are usually visible on the disc of the 

 hindwing subapically, but the cell is in. all my specimens immaculate, a character in 

 which it differs from all its allies." 



Habitat. — Ganjam District, E. Coast, Madras. 



Distribution — Mr. W. Doherty (1. c. p. 256) says, " I found this butterfly com- 

 mon on Mahcndragiri and other mountains of the Ganjam District, and in the Potinga 

 Pass, and the neighbouring country in the Vizagapatan District, Madras Presidency, 

 and in the adjoining native State of Jaipur. I also saw a specimen flying in Orissa, 

 near the southern boundary of that Province. It probably represents T. Midamus 

 throughout the main line of the Eastern Ghats from the river Godavari to the 

 Mahanadi." 



MiMiCES of Indian species of Trepsichrois: — Of the group Limnaina, the Tirumala 

 septentrionis has a superficial resemblance to the female of T. Linncei. — Both sexes 

 of a species of the subfamily Elymniinae, namely Elymnias leticocyma, are, respectively, 

 excellent mimicks of the sexes of T. Linncei. This butterfly is also mimicked by the 

 day-flying Moths of the family Chalcosiidee, namely Amesia Aliris, the males of which 

 resemble the same sex of T. Linncei, and by Amesia Midama, both sexes of which 

 respectively mimick the male and female of T. Linncei. 



Indo-Malatan allied Species of Teepsichkois. — T. Chmdia (Fabr. — Herbst., 

 Nat. Schmett. pi. 120, fig. 5, 8yn. P. basilissa, Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 266, f. C, ?), 

 of which the larva and pupa are figured in Horsfield's Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 

 (1828), pi. 3, fig. 10, 10a. Habitat. Java.— T. Mulciber (Cram. pi. 127, fig. C, D) ; 

 also described and figured in Distant's " Ehop. Malayana," p. 2-5, pi. 3, fig. 1, 2, cJ ? • 

 Habitat. Borneo; Billiton ; Malay Peninsula.— T. VerhuelU (Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, 

 p. 287, ? ) ; the male of which is described and figured in Kheil's " Rhopalocera der 

 Insel Nias,'' p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 5. Habitat. Island of Nias, W. Coast of Sumatra. — 

 T. pauper a (Staudinger) — Habitat. Island of Palawan. — T. Diocletia (Hiibner, Exot. 

 Schmett. iii. pi. fig. 8, 4. Si/n. E. Megilla, Erichson, Nova Acta, pi. 60, fig. 7), of which 

 the larva, pupa, and both sexes of imago are described and figured in Semper's 

 " Eeisen Archipel. Philippen,", p. 24, pi. A, fig. 3, 3a, pi. 5, fig. J ? . Habitat. 



