NYMPRALIN^. (Groap ASGTNJflNA.) 183 



CETHOSIA NIETNERI (Plate 351, fig. 1, larva and pupa, la, b, c, c? ? )• 



Cetkofia Niefnert, Felder, Reisen Novara, Lep. iii p. 380, pi. 48, fig. 5, 6, ? (1867). Moore, Lep. of 

 Ceylon, i. p. 51, pi. 27, fig. 3, J", 3a, ? , 3b, larva and ])upa (1880). de Niceville, Butt, of India, 

 etc., ii. p. 35 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blue-black. Cilia white. Foreiving with the lower 

 basal area ochreous merging to bluish-white discally and along posterior border ; 

 the black cell-bars slightly interspaced with bluish-white scales; beyond the cell is 

 a bluish-white upper-discal outwardly-obli(pie series of irregular-shaped streaks, 

 followed by a discal transverse row of slender conically-lunate marks pointing 

 inwards, a contiguous submarginal row of small lunate spots, the lower one 

 elongated and the last angulate, followed by a marginal series of slender angled- 

 marks, the lowest one of which is double ; below the cell is a subbasal black bar ; 

 two discal bars of which the upper one is short, the lower elongate and disposed 

 obliquely-inward ; beyond the latter is a contiguous larger diffused quadrate spot, 

 tbeir intervening spaces, from the base, being more or less thickly speckled with 

 black scales. Eiiuhving with the discal area bluish- white, the costal and outer 

 border being broa Uy black ; cell area suffused with ochreous ; some ill-defined black 

 cell-streaks ; an inner-discal series of distinct small spots, a middle row of large 

 narrow spots, and a contiguous outer-discal row of still larger oval spots, the two 

 latter series sometimes longitudinally coalescent ; beyond is a submarginal row of 

 narrow lunules. Underside olive-grey, merging outwardly to bluish-grey ; bordered 

 by a submarginal narrow ochreous band, and a marginal sinuous black band with 

 prominent slender white angled-marks and central streaks. Foretoing also with 

 black cell-bars, lower discal spots, a transverse discal series of large conical white- 

 ringed spots, and a contiguous outer row of white-bordered lunate spots. Hindtving 

 also with prominent black basal and subbasal transverse streaks, and smaller discal 

 and outer rows of spots, as on upperside. Thorax above blackish, clothed witli 

 olive-brown hairs ; abdomen above ochreous ; head black, spotted with white; palpi 

 above olive-brown, tip black, beneath whitish ; body beneath whitish, and black 

 streaked ; legs ochreous- white, femora black streaked ; antennee black. 



Female. Upperside duller blue-black ; markings as in male, but of a deeper 

 bluish-white ; basal areas not ochreous. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, c? ? Bi^, to 4 inches. 



Larva. — Cylindrical ; purplish-black, with red transverse bands, the sixth and 

 eighth segments with a yellow band. Head armed with two long branched-spines ; 

 the segments with two dorsal and two lateral rows of long slender finely-branched 

 spines. Feeds on Modecca. 



Pi'PA. — Brown, mottled with ochreous-white. Abdominal segments tuber- 



