162 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



could detect it. I have myself often been utterly puzzled. I have watched it settle, 

 apparently in a very conspicuous situation, a few yards off, but on crawling carefully 

 up to the spot have been quite unable to detect any living thing. Sometimes, while 

 gazing intently, a butterfly would start out from just before my eyes, and again 

 enter another dead bush a few yards oflF, again to be lost in the same manner. Once 

 or twice only was I able to detect it sitting, and admire the wonderful disguise which 

 a most strange combination of colour, form, and habits enabled it instantaneously to 

 assume. But there is yet another peculiarity which adds to the concealment of this 

 species. Scarcely two of the specimens are alike in colour on the underside, but 

 vary through all the shades of pale buff, yellow, brown, and deep rusty-orange 

 which dried leaves assume ; others are speckled over with little black dots like 

 mildewed leaves, or have clusters of spots or irregular blotches, like the minute 

 fungi that attack dead leaves ; so that a dozen of these insects might settle on a 

 perfectly bare spray, and clothe it at once with withered foliage not distinguishable 

 from that of the surrounding branches " (Science Gossip, 1867, p. 195). 



KALLIMA HUGELII. 



Dry-season form (Plate 337, fig. 1, la, J; lb, c, $ ). 



PajMa Hugelii, Kollar, in Hiigel's Ka.schmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 432, pi. 9, fig. ^J ? (18i4). 



KaUima Hugeli, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. (1879), p. 12. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 261 



(1886). 

 PapJiia Paralekta, Westwood, in Royle's Himalayan Botany, pi. 10, fig. 3, a, h,^ (1839). 

 Cullima Jnachis, Herr. Schsefifer, Exot. Schmett. p. 77, fig. 7, 8, ^ (1852). 



Imago. — Male and female. Apex of forewing prolonged, longest in the female. 

 Male. Upperside. Basal areas pale greyish-blue, the outer border of wing pos- 

 teriorly, and of the hiudwing broadly fulvescent bluish-grey, or olivescent-grey ; 

 submargiual sinuous line black, prominent. Foreiving with the apex violet-black 

 and bearing a small opaque-white dentate subapical spot; costal border broadly 

 black-speckled ; crossed by a broad outwardly-oblique discal fulvous band, extending 

 from the costa to outer margin, where it is sullied and more or less minutely 

 speckled with minute dai-k brown strigas ; outer edge of the band waved, inner edge 

 sinuous and broadly black bordered from the subcostal to below the middle median, 

 where it joins a black-bordered small hyaline oval spot. Hindiving with the apex 

 and outer border more or less speckled with minute dark brown strigEe, and traversed 

 by an outer-discal series of three or four black-speckled somewhat ocellate obscure 

 patches. Underside. Ground-colour either greyish-ochreous, of uniform tint 

 throughout or with slightly darker olivescent-ochreous ordinary inner oblique 



