NYMPHALINjE. (Group A-RGTXKINA.-) 177 



joint projecting one-third above tlae head; third joint short, pointed ; forelegs of 

 male slender, neai-ly cylindric ; femur and tibia of about equal length, scaly above, 

 very slightly hairy beneath ; forelegs of female smoothly-scaled, femur slightly hairy 

 beneath, tarsus dilated beneath and rounded at tip, apical spines slender and acute. 



TypE.— C. Cydippe. 



Larva. — [Mahratta.] " Cylindrical ; constricted between each pair of segments, 

 and tapering towards the head. Segments armed with six longitudinal rows of fine, 

 pointed spines; on the head with one pair of longer, blunt spines." 



Pupa. — " Suspended vertically ; slender, with two large foliaceous processes 

 springing from middle of the back, and many less prominent processes and tubercles 

 on the head, thorax, and abdomen." 



Food-plant and Habits of Laeva. — "Feeds on the wild Passion flower (i/oJer'f« 

 palmata), and is gregarious all through its life " (Davidson and Aitkeu, Jouru. 

 Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 270). 



Note. — Mr. de Niceville remarks, " "Where these butterflies occur they are 

 usually numerous in individuals, and very conspicuous from their bright coloration. 

 Owing to the strong scent with which their bodies are impregnated, they are 

 probably distasteful to insectivorous animals" (Butt. India, ii. 3o). 



CETHOSIA CYANE (Plate 3i8, fig. 1, la, ^; lb, c, d, e, $). 



Papilio Cyane, Drury, Illust. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 4, fig. 1, ? (1770). Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 503 (177.5). 



Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 35, fig. 2 (1800). 

 Ceihosia Cyane, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, pt. 4, p. 443 (1844). Doiibleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. 



p. 1.50 (1850). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 100 (1869). de Niceville, Butt, of India, 



etc., ii. p. 33 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing with the basal area from lower half- 

 length of cell and across the disc obliquely to near posterior angle, rich fulvous-red 

 the outer area of the wing from base of costa to posterior angle, bluish-black 

 crossed by an upper-discal outwardly-oblique irregular-edged, bluish-white band 

 bearing two black spots in the lower medial and upper median interspaces ; above 

 the band are two superposed subapical more or less ill-defined slender incomplete 

 lanceolate white marks, pointing inwards, the lower one being slightly coalescent 

 with that portion of the discal band ; followed by a submarginal series of more or 

 less distinct small white spots, the upper two or three rounded the others lunate 

 and longer, the two medial being coalescent or merged into that portion of the 

 discal band, the two lowest slender and fulvous-red ; beyond is a marginal series of 

 well-defined slender deeply-angled marks, one in each interspace except the lowest, 

 VOL. IV. April 10th, I'JOO. a a 



