188 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



femur hairy beneath, tarsus much dilated beneath and abruptly rounded to the tip, 

 spines stout ; antennas long, with a short club ; eyes naked. 



Larva. — [Saloma.] " Cylindrical. Head armed with two, large, curved spiny 

 horns ; the segments armed with six rows of well-branched-spines." 



Pupa. — Suspended. " Very grotesque ; with two extraordinary expansions, 

 like bats' wings, springing from the basal abdominal segment, a smaller pair on the 

 penultimate segment, and a large angular dorsal prominence above the head " 

 {Davidson and AitJcen, I.e.). 



Type. — C. Arsinoe. 



Food-Plant and Habits of Larva. — " Found on the wild Passion flower 

 {Modecca pnlmata). It is a night feeder, returning to some distance, often to another 

 plant, during the day " (Ditto). 



CYNTHIA EROTA. 



We( season form (Plate 354, fig. 1, la, b, c, ^J ? ). 



Fapilio Erota, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 76, ? (1793). 



Cynthia Erota, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 115 (1869). Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lend. 1877, 



p. 584. de Xiceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 41, pi. 21, fig. 97, S ? (1886). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. 



Sec. Lend. 1893, p. 277. Manders, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1888, p. 37, larva and pupa. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bright olivescent ferruginous-ochreous, the discal 

 area across both wings slightly paler. Cilia grey. Forewing with two black waved 

 hues crossing middle of the cell, another near the end, and two very fine lines 

 enclosing the discocellulars ; a black transverse inner-discal somewhat lunulated 

 interrupted line, a paler blackish or brownish-ochreous medial-discal sinuous line, 

 followed by a curved series of six small black dentate spots, the middle pair being 

 indistinct or obsolete, the upper pair the largest and with a pale central dot ; beyond 

 is a black submarginal waved line enclosing a pale ochreous spot at the apex, and 

 then a marginal sinuous line. Hindwing crossed by a black narrow inner-discal 

 almost straight line, beyond which the ground-colour is broadly and distinctly paler 

 towards the costa and is defined outwardly by a medial discal transverse slightly 

 blackish or brownish-ochreous ill-defined wavy line evanescently decreasing hind- 

 ward, beyond which the outer-discal area is traversed by a dusky fascia bearing two 

 prominent ocelli, the upper ocellus placed in the upper discoidal interspace, the 

 lower one in the lower median intei'space, these ocelli being composed of a black 

 centre, a violet pupil, and slender black outer ring ; a smaller obsolescent ocellus is 

 also slightly apparent above the anal angle, and one also is sometimes present in the 

 subcostal interspace ; followed by a black submarginal and a marginal sinuous line, 

 enclosing a small violet patch at anal angle. Underside paler ochreous, the basal 



