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area greyish-white, powdered with dusky olive scales, the interspaces of black cell- 

 bars darker olive, bluish-white upper-discal oblique band, submarginal lunular spots 

 and marginal angled-marks as in male, but more prominent, the lower-discal black 

 spots larger, two inner smaller spots also present before the lower pair. Eindwiny 

 greyish white, the costal border and outer margin black, the latter with angled- 

 marks as in male, and an inner row of greenish- white lunules ; the two inner-discal 

 black spots and the outer-discal row of spots are larger, and between them is a 

 parallel raedial-discal row of smaller less-defined spots ; sometimes also the inner- 

 discal series is composed of five spots, one in each interspace, and also with an 

 additional spot within the cell. Underside with the ground-coloiir and marginal 

 markings greenish-white, the interspaces of cell-bars, in forevviug, and of those of 

 hindwing, darker bluish-green ; oblique white band and black markings as on 

 upperside ; base of forewing and subbasal streak on hindwing more or less red. 



Expanse, c? S^q to 4, ? 3 to 4i-o inches. 



Larva. — Cylindrical ; purplish-black, segments with alternate j^ellow and 

 crimson bands. Head armed with two long spines, segments with dorsal and lateral 

 rows of fine spines. Feeds on Passijiora, July. (Described from drawing by Major 

 C. H. E. Adamson.) 



Habitat. — Masuri ; Oudli ; Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Cachar ; Silhet ; 

 Khasias ; Calcutta ; Orissa ] Burma ; Upper Tenasserim. 



Distribution. — Tt is recorded from Masuri by Kollar (Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. 

 2, p. 443). Capt. A. M. Lang obtained " a single specimen in a wild jungle spot on 

 the Gogra, in Oudh " (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 131). "It is a common species in 

 Sikkim, Assam, and the Khasia Hills. I have taken a single female in Calcutta in 

 the cold weather. Mr. Wood-Mason took it in Cachar. It has also been taken in 

 Sibsagar, Upper Assam ; it also occurs in Silhet, Manipur, Arakan, Pegu, and Upper 

 Tenasserim" (de Niceville, I.e. 34). Mr. W. C. Taylor found it "very rare in 

 Khorda, Orissa, in October " (List p. 4). Capt. M. J. Slater found the larva feeding 

 on the Passion flower, the larva being yellow, black, and crimson, in alternate bars, 

 and covered with stinging spines. Pupa hung by tail, and in leaf-like appendages, 

 resembled that of Pap. Pammon " (MS. Notes, 302). Mr. L. de Niceville records it 

 as " common in Sikkim from April to December, at 5000 feet elevation and below. 

 The larva of this species and those of G. BiUis and Cynthia Erota feed in such 

 numbers on the common white Passion flower as to become a veritable nuisance " 

 (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1895, 133). Col. C. H. E. Adamson records it as " common 

 in Burma up to about 1000 feet elevation during the rainy season. I have 

 bred it from larva feeding on the Passion flower, in Moulmein, in July, the 

 perfect insect emerging in August" (List 1897, p. 17). Signor L. Fea obtained 

 it at Bhamo. 



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