NY MP HALING. (Group JiSGF.V.V/Xl.) 207 



inner-discal sinuous lines veiy indistinct or obsolescent, tlie discal row of black 

 spots smaller, the submarginal and marginal line indistinct or obsolescent. Under- 

 side. Basal area of both wings paler than in Erymanfhis, in the male generally as 

 pale as the band; the cell-marks and apex oiforerving, and a subbasal sinuous fascia 

 on hindn-ing, being darker brownish-ochreous ; hindwing with the outer border also 

 uniformly brownish-ochreous, the two marginal sinuous lines indistinct and not pale 

 bordered; the discal violaceous lunules prominent, the outer-discal black spots 

 small. 



Expanse, (? 2 to 2^%, ? 2^% inches. 



Laeva. — Cylindrical. Brown or pale green ; armed with longitudinal rows of 

 blackish branched-spines. 



PcPA. — Pale yellowish-green, with a double row of long slender red filaments. 



Habitat. — South India. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — " The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses examples from the 

 Kadur District, Mysore, Ootacamund, Nilgiris, the Wynaad, Kanara, and Travan- 

 core " (de jSTiceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 23). "We possess both sexes from Kanara, and 

 the Nilgiris. Messrs. Davidson and Aitken record it as " very common, in the N. 

 Kanara District, wherever the country is fairly well wooded, and more abundant in 

 the dry season than during the rains. In habits it is very like Afella Plialantha, 

 flitting restlessly from bush to bush, and keeping its wings in motion even when it 

 alights. The larva, which feeds on the same plant {Flacoartia) as that species, is 

 only distinguishable by the colour of the head and by the spines, which are inclined 

 to be semi-transparent, these being black in ^1. Plialantha. The pupa can be 

 recognized at once by a double row of slender filaments springing from the principal 

 tubercles" (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, 247). In the Nilgiris, Mr. G. F. 

 Hampson found it " common at 3000 to 6000 feet. Larva pale apple-green, with 

 branching black spines. Pupa pale apple-green, with three pairs of red and black 

 frontal processes, and red and black frontal streaks" (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 1888, 352). 



CUPHA PLACIDA (Plate 363, fig. 1, la, o' ? )• 



Ctipha placida, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 65, pi. 32, fig. 1 (ISSl). Je Nicuville, Butt, of luJia, ii. 

 p. 23 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside much paler olivescent brownish-ochreous 

 than in N. Indian ErymantJm and S. Indian Maja. Forewing witli the oblique 

 discal band deep yellowish-ochreous, in some specimens being but slightly paler than 

 the basal area, its inner sinuous black-edge very slenderly define;!, its outer edge 

 more regular and curving inward to the costa where it joins the inner end ; cell- 



