66 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Sikkini, and is found up to about 8000 feet elevation almost throughout the year. 

 The larva, in Sikkim, feeds on a species of Strobilanthus " (L. de Niceville, Sikk. 

 Gaz. 1894, 135). Ool. C. H. E. Adamson records it as being found " throughout 

 Burma" (List, 1897, p. 18). Dr. J. Anderson took it in the Mergui Archipelago in 

 November, December, Januarjr, and March (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 35). 

 We possess specimens from Western China. 



Food-Plant op Larva. — " The larva feeds on the Karvi, Strobilanthus callosus, 

 at Karwar, Bombay" (Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 71). 



JUNONIA HOPFFERI. 



Precis Hopfferi, Moschler, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1872, p. 337, ? . 

 Junonia J£opfferi, de Niceville, Butt. ludia, etc., ii. p. 71 (1886). 



" The shape of the forewing resembles that of Precis Erigone, but the hindwing 

 is not angled as in several species of the genus. The ground-colour of both wings 

 on the upperside is of a clear golden-brown, as in many females of P. IpMta, Cram. 

 \ida, Cram.], but is shaded by a dark brown dusting, so that it [the ground-colour] 

 only appears in a triangular spot at the base of the discoidal cell, in a narrow trans- 

 verse spot at end of the cell, in a narrow band behind the transverse series of dark 

 spots whicli crosses the middle of tlie wings, and in a broader band in front of the 

 margin. In the discoidal cell in front of the middle are two obliquely-placed round 

 dark brown spots with, clear golden-brown centres ; behind these is a large misshapen 

 kidney-like spot surrounded with black. In the middle of the wings the dark 

 dusting is bounded by a series of dark brown transverse spots which enter angularly 

 into the fourth cell. In front of the light margin is placed a series of black-brown 

 round spots, of which the three upper ones in the fifth, sixth, and eighth cells are 

 only brown on the innerside, being otherwise white, and of these the spot in the fifth 

 cell approaches the margin, thereby dropping out of the line of the others ; the 

 lowest spot in the second cell is the largest, and surrounded with a fine golden- 

 brown. Behind these spots runs thi'ough all the cells a series of broad lunular spots, 

 and behind them this again runs a dark brown undulating streak following the 

 margin which runs in an angle into the fifth cell. The margin is narrowly black- 

 brown in colour, but marked finely with white externally between the veins. On the 

 underside the colouring is clearer, brownish ochre-gold, the light parts being almost 

 reddish-gold ; the spots of the cell are encircled with fine black, the series of dark 

 spots through the middle of the wings lighter brown and less distinct on the margin 

 are bordered with white violet-red spots on the forewing in cells one h and two, also in 

 cells five and six, and in the hindwing in all the cells. The dark bands of the 



