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streaked ; palpi above olive-brown, tip black, beneath white ; body beneath fulvous- 

 white, black streaked; legs fulvous, femora black streaked; antenna black. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler fulvous, with markings as in male, but 

 blacker and more prominent, those on the hindwing having the discal series of spots 

 larger, the inner and medial series more or less partly confluent ; the outer-discal 

 series of oval spots more distinctly white-ringed, and the submarginal black lunules 

 also whitish edged externally. Underside with the ground-colour paler than in 

 male ; markings similar. 



Expanse, J 2^% to S^^y, <? Z^^ to Ai^q inches. "- 



Lauva. — " Cylindrical, but much constricted between each pair of segments, 

 and tapering towards the head. Colour dark bro\vn, with bright red bands 

 encircling all the segments except the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 8th. On the 6th and 

 8th the red is replaced by a broader lemon-yellow baud ; segments armed with sis 

 longitudinal rows of fine, pointed black spines." Head armed with two longer 

 blunt black spines. 



Pui'A. — " 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. Colour purplish-brown, much mottled with 

 lighter and dai-ker shades; six dorsal spots of bright gold" {Davidson and Aitken, 

 I.e.). 



Habitat. — South India. 



DiSTKiBCTiON and Habits. — " Common along the Malabar Coast at the foot of 

 the Ghats. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses specimens from Karwar, 

 Bombay, Calicut, Kanara, the Wyuaad, and Trevandrum " (de Niceville, I.e. oi). 

 '' Fairly common everywhere in wooded couutry, especially during the latter half of 

 the rains" (Davidson and Aitken, I.e. 1896, 248). "We got the larvae first in 

 June and July, and then very plentifully iu October, on the wild Passion flower 

 (Modecca palmafa) ; it is gregarious all through its life. The pupa, when touched, 

 vibrates in a manner well calculated to deter the hungriest enemy " (Ditto, I.e. 

 1890, 270). The late S. N. Ward, in his MS. notes, says it is " not common, in 

 fact rather rare on the Western Coast, and seldom to be seen on the Eastern. Larva 

 found at Sircy, in September, feeding on the Passion flower ; it is gregarious in its 

 habits, twenty or thirty being found on one branch." Mr. G. F. Hampson records 

 it as being found in the " Xilgiris, 3000 to 3500 feet ; common on the Western slopes, 

 and a rare straggler throughout the rest of the District " ( Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1888, 352). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 350, fig. 1 is copied from Messrs. Davidson and 

 Aitken's published figures of the larva and pupa, and fig. 1, a, from the late Mr. 

 S. N. Ward's original drawings ; fig. 1, b, c, is from a male and female. 



