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ring and outer black ring placed between and extending over the lower subcostal 

 and radial, this ocellus being either simply round and perfect, or the outer red and 

 black ring encompassing a smaller upper blue-centred black spot, and sometimes also 

 a still smaller lower spot ; a small obscure brown ocellated spot is also generally 

 present between the lower median veinlets ; two short indistinct black lines at end 

 of the cell, and two outer marginal black lunular lines outwardly-bordered by pale 

 ochreous lines. Underside. Both wings (in the wei-secison form) brownish-ochreousj 

 crossed by pale yellowish -ochreous basal, discal, and marginal sinuous fascias, the 

 forewing having the two ocelli as on upperside, but less defined, and the hindwing 

 the two ocelli either very small, and of equal size, or both the latter are large and the 

 upper one duplex. In the dry-season form both wings are uniformly pale dull 

 yellowish-ochreous or ochreous-red ; with paler-defined transverse markings, the 

 lower ocellus only being present on the forewing, and a series of minute ocellate spots 

 on the hiudwing. Body and palpi above olive-brown, beneath and legs pale 

 ochreous-white ; antennte dark brown above, ochreous edged with white beneath. 



Expanse, 3 Ii-q ^o 2j^oj ? 2,-^q to 2^-0 inches. 



Larva.- — " After first moult; ground-colour jet black, with four equidistant rows 

 of conical jet-black spines which are finely branched ; abdomen pale brown-black ; 

 legs black ; head black, with a transverse yellow band behind ; stigmata white. 

 After last moult. Length one inch, cylindrical and spiny ; lead-colour, minutely 

 spotted with darker and whitish dots; dorsal line black as far as 1st and 2nd 

 segments, and then replaced all the way by a row of black branched-spines ; 

 also four rows of equidistant black longitudinally-placed spines ; lateral line 

 milky ; abdomen and legs lead-colour, thoracic legs black ; head brown, strongly 

 speckled with elevated black spots and having two little bundles of spiny hairs in 

 front, and on centre a white triangular patch, shaded all round with black ; anterior 

 portion of first segment yellow-ochre ; sides of segments transversely striated 

 with dark lead-colour ; stigmata black. Habits. Lazy. Food-plant. — The thorny 

 Barleria (Barleria prionitis). Changed to Pupa on the 28th Sept., 1860." 



Pupa. — "Suspended; light brown, speckled with whitish and variegated with 

 darker brown. Imago emerged on .5th Oct., 1860" (Capt. H. L. Chaumette, Luck- 

 now, 1861. MS. Notes). 



Habitat. — " India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Siam ; 

 S. China ; Hong Kong ; Hainan ; Formosa ; Philippines. 



Distribution, Habits, etc. — This is a widely-spread and common Indian species, 

 occurring almost everywhere in the plains in the region of heavy rainfall, and 

 extending into the Hills up to 7000 feet elevation. I possess two ' sports,' both 

 females, from Malda and Orissa, which have all the markings blurred and obliterated 

 on both sides" (de Niceville, Butt. lud. ii. 70). Mr. W. Doherty took it in 



