146 LEPWOPTERA INBICA. 



Body and palpi above black; thorax and abdomen speckled with bluish-white scales ; 

 head and palpi white spotted ; thorax beneath reddish-ochreous spotted with white ; 

 abdomen beneath with ochreous-white bands ; legs black, femora white beneath. 

 Expanse, 3 to Z^q inches. A mimic of Limnas Ghrijslppu!^ (Lep. Indica, i. pi. 8). 



Second form (fig. 1, d). — Akippoides, Butler. — Differs from the first form of 

 female, both on the upper and underside, in the hindwiug having a distinctly defined 

 broad chalky-white discal area. Expanse, 3 j^o inches. Nilgiris (Coll. Hampson). A 

 mimic of Limnas Alcippoides (Lep. Indica, i. pi. 9, fig. 2, a, b, c). 



Third form (fig. 1, e, f). — Inaria, Cramer. — Differs from the fii'st and second 

 form, on the upper and underside of the forewing, in the absence of the black 

 ground-colour on the middle of the apical area, and the oblique upper-discal white 

 band, these parts being of the same reddish- ochreous as the other parts of the wing. 

 Expanse, 3 to 3i-o inches. Llhow ; Ahmednuggiir ; Bombay. A. xmmxa oi Limnas 

 Klvgii (Lep. Indica, i. pi. 9, fig. 1, la). 



Larva. — " After first moult; half inch long. Ground-colour black ; dorsal line 

 dark and faintly marked ; segmental incisions dark slate-colour ; back transversely 

 banded on each segment with glossy pale brown bead-shaped protuberant dots ; 

 abdomen dark olive-brown ; legs brick-i'ed ; head brick-red, furnished with two long 

 black thick branched-spines, terminating in a very fine silky hair ; stigmata black, 

 ringed with olive ; segments armed with ten longitudinal rows of dirty-white trans- 

 jjarent branched-spines two lines long — one on either side of dorsal line, one at the 

 base of legs, and three intermediate ; a somewhat indistinct dark wavy line just 

 below the first and second rows of spines, counting from dorsal line ; anal segment 

 with only two spines. After last moult ; length one to one and a half inch ; fat, 

 cylindrical, attenuated anteriorly ; ground-colour and description as above. Feeds 

 on the garden Purslane {Portulaca oleracea), of which it eats the whole plant. In 

 habits it is gregarious and voracious ; when disturbed they emit a green fluid from 

 the mouth. Went into pupa September 3rd." 



Pupa. — "Pendulous. Short and thick; light brown, without metallic spots, 

 variegated and streaked with bistre, particulai'Iy towards the head and tail. 

 Imago. — Emerged September 10th " (Capt. H. L. de la Chaumette, MS. Notes, 

 Lucknow, 1860). 



Habitat. — Throughout India up to 6000 feet in the Himalayas ; Ceylon ; 

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Burma; Siam ; Teuasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; 

 Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo ; Hong Kong ; Formosa ; etc. 



Two FOKMS OF FEMALE reared from eggs of one parent. — Mr. J. A. Betham writes, 

 " I have reared from eggs laid by one and the same female — which was, herself, of the 

 D. Dorippus type — both the common form which mimics D. Chrysippus and the less 

 common form which mimics D. Dorippus, I watched her as she laid her eggs and 



