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Cheysalis. — Suspended by the tail; broad, and truncated anteriorly, abdominal 

 segments dorsally convex, head and vertex both pointed ; colour pale green. 



Habitat. — S. India ; Ceylon. 



There is no distinctive difference between South Indian specimens and those of 

 Ceylon. 



Distribution. — In his " List of Orissa Butterflies," p. 2, Mv. W. C. Taylor 

 records it as " not uncommon at Khurda." Specimens have been" taken at Mynall, 

 at 2000 feet in May," also at 3000 feet in March and April, and " at Trevandrum in 

 June," as well as at Calicut in September (Butt. India, 151). Mr. G. F. Hampson 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 348) obtained it on the " Nilgiris at 3000 to 5000 feet, being 

 common in the low country jungles and on the slopes of the Hills." A female 

 obtained by Mr. Davidson on the Anaymalai Hills, 3000 to 4000 feet. South of the 

 Palghat Gap, is in the Collection of Mr. F. D, Godraan. In Ceylon, Capt. Hutchison 

 (Lep. Ceylon, i. 18), took it " in the Hills of the Central Province, at 3000 feet and 

 slightly above, at all times ; being very local, and found in several spots of limited 

 extent." Mr. F. M. Mackwood notes that it is " sometimes found at lower elevations, 

 but as a rule ovei- 3000 feet." Mr. E. E. Green captured it at Pundaloya in 

 March and April. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate No. 83, figs. 1, la, b, c, 

 represent the male and female, and fig. Id the larva and pupa from drawings 

 made by Mr. E. Ernest Green in Ceylon ; the larva having been taken feeding on 

 Bamboo. 



LETHE DYRTA (Plate 82, figs. 3, 3a, b, c, J" ? ). 



Dehis Dyrfa, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 497 (1867), ? . 



Zethe Dyrfa, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 115 (1868) ; id. P. Z. S. 1SS6, p. 357. Marshall and 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 152, pi. 10, fig. 22, (? ? (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soo. 



Lond. 1888, p. 309. Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 221, pi. 78, $ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olivaceous-brown, darkest apically on the forewing; 

 marginal lines pale ochreous-bordered ; cilia alternated with white. Forewing with 

 two subapical whitish spots, and a costal whitish spot traversed by the subcostal 

 veinlets, this latter spot forming the upper end of the oblique transverse pale band 

 of the underside which is slightly apparent from the upperside, as are also the four 

 ocelli of the underside. Bindwing with the ocelli of the underside slightly visible. 

 Underside olivaceous-brown ; crossed by two dark brown subbasal and a discal some- 

 what sinuous lilacine-white narrow band, the inner subbasal being ill-defined, and 

 both the inner and outer line on the forewing only crossing the cell ; marginal line 

 externally bordered with ochreous and internally with lilacine-white. Forewing witli 



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