194 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



oblique dark streaks, one to eacli segment ; last segment prolonged and ending in 

 two rougli, triangular, slightly divergent horns. It has the habit of resting for 

 hours with its chin strongly retracted, and its horns projecting forwards. The 

 fourth eye [?] from above is very much larger than the others, and the head with 

 its short ear-like horns looks very much like a cat's. Before undergoing its meta- 

 morphosis, the larva became in colour a clear transparent green, unmarked except 

 by the black dots of the spiracles. Chrysalis green, smooth, its envelope transparent, 

 shorter and thicker than the chrysalis of Melanitis, strongly constricted between 

 the thorax and abdomen. The caterpillar feeds on various grasses, and is strictly 

 nocturnal." 



Messrs. J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, in their " Notes on the Butterflies of the 

 Bombay Presidency," also give a description of the larva [presumably of visala] under 

 their name of mineus, as follows : — 



" Larva spindle-shaped ; head larger than neck and surmounted with two short 

 protuberances ; last segment elongated and ending in two fine points ; colour some 

 shade of brown with a lateral dark line, sometimes indistinct, formed by a chain of 

 minute cruciform marks. This colour is assumed when the larva is half-grown ; at 

 first it is green with a black head. Pi/pa oval, without angle or irregularity of any 

 kind, very like that of Melanitis, but proportionally thicker, light green with a 

 pale line across the wing-cases. We got one specimen on Eice, in July, and a 

 dozen the following June, from eggs laid by the unocellated form in captivity." 

 (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. See. 1890, p. 267.) 



CALYSISME STJBDITA. 



"Wet-Season Brood (Plate 65, fig. 1, la, b, e, d,cJ ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, with a 

 very faint pale transverse discal narrow fascia, and distinctly paler marginal lines ; 

 both most apparent in the female. Cilia cinereous-ochreous. Foreiring more 

 rounded at the apex than in C. visala ; with a large prominent median ocellus. Bind- 

 wing with one, occasionally two, small slightly defined median ocelli. Underside 

 dark greyish ochreous-brown or fuliginous-brown ; with a well-defined whitish 

 transverse discal band, and marginal ochreous lines. Foreioing with one small 

 subapical ocellus and two conjoined lower median ocelli, the latter pair being 

 disposed one between the middle and lower medians (which is the largest) and the 

 other between the lower median and the submedian vein ; the lowest ocellus, i.e., that 

 between the median and submedian, being small and always present in both selves ; 

 both the upper and lower series are separately encircled by a pale greyish-white 

 outer line. In some specimens, but rarely, there is a minute more or less complete 



