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to the skin being clothed with minute bristles ; there are two long setose sjaines on 

 the head, pointed forwards, and two caudal spines. The colour above is rosy-red, 

 with a blue dorsal line and a white lateral line, below which the under parts are 

 green." 



Chetsalis. — " Perpendicularly suspended; slender, and regular, except that the 

 head-case is jjroduced into a long beak formed of two thin processes like split straws. 

 Colour whitish-brown, with faint strise of a darker shade. It has very much the look 

 of a large grain of barley " (Davidson and Aitken, I. c). 



Habitat. — South India ; Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Messrs. Davidson and Aitken (Journ. Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1890, 267) records it from Karwar, in Bombay, obtaining the larva, feeding on grass 

 in September, the desci'iption of which we have here transcribed, and also repro- 

 duced their figure of the larva and pupa on our Plate 58. Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1888, 348) obtained it on the Nilgiris, at " 3000 feet, being common in the 

 jungles at the northern base of the hills, and throughout the Wynad and Mysore 

 forests. The wet-season form is found from June to September, when its place is 

 taken by the dry-season brood." There are examples of the wet-season brood in the 

 British Museum from the Bhowani Valley, Malabar, and of the dry-season brood 

 from Bandipore, ]\Iysore, 3000 feet, taken in November. In Ceylon, Captain Hutchi- 

 son (Lep. Ceylon, i. 23) says, of the wet-season form, it " frequents open ground at 

 edges of forests ; found in the plains and up to about 3000 feet, in the western and 

 central provinces from May to September ; flight slow and for short distances ; 

 settling down among long grass and is easily captured." Mr. E. E. Gi'een obtained 

 numerous examples of the wet-season form at Piinduloya in the Western Central 

 division of Ceylon, in August and September. 



Genus CALYSISME. 



Cahjsume, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 20 (1880) ; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1880, p. 161. 



Mycalesis (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 55 (1816). Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. Diurn. 



Lep. p. 392 (1851). Herr Schsffer, Prod. Lep. i. p. 62 (1865). Butler, Catal. Satyrida?, Brit. 



Mns. p. 128. Kirby, Syn. Catal. Diurnal Lep. p. 87 (1871). 

 Mycalesis (sect. B), Distant, Khopalocera Malayaua, p. 50 (1882). 

 Mycalesis (Cahjsisme), Marshall and de Nioeville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 11 4 (1883). 



Imago. — Wings short, broad. Forewing with the costa arched from the base, 

 apex more or less acute in male, less so in the female, exterior margin very slightly 

 oblique and curved, posterior angle more or less acute; costal, median, and sub- 

 median vein swollen at the base ; second subcostal branch emitted immediately 

 before end of the cell ; the cell broad ; discocellulars very concave, the radials from 

 two angles in the upper near the subcostal. Hindwing bluntly oval; costa arched 

 at the base ; exterior margin convex, more or less dentate ; first subcostal branch 



