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larger ; costa and abdominal border white. Body with a dorsal and lateral black 

 stripe edged with white or pale ochreous ; palpi above clothed with black and 

 ochreous hairs, beneath ochreous-wbite ; legs white ; antennae black, anuulated with 

 white beneath. 



Expanse, c? ? 2 to 2/j, inches. 



Larva. — " Slender, cylindrical, smooth ; with two long, curved, divergent 

 filaments or soft horns on the head, a single stouter sword-shaped one on the 

 back of the fifth or sixth segment, curved backwards and serrated on its inner edge, 

 and another on the last segment, curved forwards and serrated on its outer edge. 

 Colour fine reddish-brown, with a broad green band on the side from the fifth 

 to the last segment. Feeds on the leaves of Ficns indiea.^' 



Pupa. — " Suspended by the tail ; very much compi'essed ; with a dorsal ridge 

 from head to tail, high and obtusely pointed in the middle ; palpi cases united and 

 produced into a long somewhat recurved snout ; colour brown, with fine dark 

 striae." 



Egg. — " High-domed shape, or almost conical, with an aperture at the top fitted 

 with a deeply dentate flat cap, like a cogged wheel " {Davidson, I.e. 351). 



Habitat. — "W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Cachar; Khasias ; Bombay; 

 S.India; Burma; Tenasserim ; W.China; Hainan; Formosa; Japan. .v 



Distribution. — We possess examples of both the white and pale ochreous forms 

 from the Western Himalayas, taken at Kasauli, Simla, aud Masuri, a white male 

 from Nepal, taken by the late Gen. G. Ramsay, both sexes from Sikkim, Assam, and 

 the Khasias ; others from S. India, taken in the AVynaad and Nilgiris, a pale 

 ochreous female from Coorg, a white male from Mynal, Travancore, taken in March, 

 at 2000 feet elevation ; white males from Bhamo, taken in November by Signor L. 

 Fea, from Upper Burma, by Col. C. H. E. Adamsom, a male from Moolai, Upper 

 Tenasserim, and white males from W, China and Japan. Mr. J. H. Leech has both 

 sexes of the white and ochreous forms from Moupin, and Omeishan, W. China, and 

 a white female from the Loochoo Islands. It is also recorded from Hainan (P. Z. S. 

 1878, 698), and from Formosa {id. 1877, p. 813). The late Capt. R. Bayne Reed 

 took it in Kashmir in 1872 (MS. Note), and Capt. H. B. Hellard also took it in 

 "Kashmir in September" (MS. Notes). Mr. P. W. Mackinuon found it " very 

 common in Masuri and in the interior, and it is not rare in the Doon. It flies all 

 through the warm weather." Capt. A. M. Lang took it at " Kasauli in May, aud at 

 Kundloo from April to October" (MS. Notes). The Rev. J. H. Hocking records it 

 from the Kangra Hills, " June to September, hybernates afterwards. Sits with open 

 wings upon hanging leaves of Oak and Rhododendron" (P. Z. S. 1882, 240). Mr. 

 W. S. Atkinson records it from " Hills in Central India, Parisnath Hill, Sikkim, and 

 Khasias" (MS. Notes). Col. C. Swinhoe records it as "common on the Khasia 



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