NTMPHALIN^. (Group AEGYyKIKA.) 219 



row of black spots, two submarginal sinuous Hues and a marginal even line. Under- 

 side. Ground-colour of various shades of reddish-ochreous washed with pale 

 violaceous-grey ; subbasal line dusky brown ; transverse discal band white or 

 violaceous-grey, dilated anteriorly, its inner-edge brown-lined and more or less 

 deeply sinuous or broken up into dentate portions, its outer-edge being straight and 

 unlined ; followed by an outer-discal series of very obscure dusky dentate marks on 

 the forewing, and a row of small black spots on hiudwing, and submarginal lunular 

 lines of the ground-colour bordered by violaceous-grey. 



Female. Forewing more falcate at the apex. Upperside paler than in male, 

 darker basally ; markings similar. Underside olivescent greyish-ochreous or pale 

 brownish-ochreous, washed with violaceous-grey ; markings similar to male ; the 

 discal baud generally prominently edged on both sides by a dark purple-grey line ; 

 the discal row of black spots on hiudwing very small. 



Expanse, S 2^^ to 2i^o, 9 2^q to 3 inches. 



Dry-season form (Plate 368, fig. Id, e, f, J"; Ig, h, ? ). 



Cirrochroa relaia, de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 116, cJ ? (188G). Davidson and Aitken, Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 273, larra. 



Male. Upperside slightly paler than in wet-season form ; all the markings 

 comparatively less prominent. Underside paler and a duller reddish-ochreous, 

 the subbasal and outer markings obscure, the discal band on both wings entire 

 throughout its course, and either of the same shade as the ground-colour or white, 

 its inner edge being very slightly sinuous, and not broken up into dentate portions 

 as in wet-season form. 



Female. Upperside also slightly paler than in wet-season form, and the 

 markings less prominent. Underside paler greyish-ochreous than in wet-season 

 form ; subbasal and outer markings similar ; the discal baud entire, as in male, 

 white. 



Expanse, <? 2^-0 to 2^^, ? 2n) to S-ro inches. 



Habitat. — South India. 



Laeva and Pupa. — " In colour, the many larva? we found were uniformly black, 

 with an oily-gloss, except the head and last segment, which were light brown. The 

 pupa was almost white on the wing-cases, yellow elsewhere, with numerous minute 

 black spots, suspended in a horizontal position, bearing two dorsal series of recurved 

 spines, and pairs of similar, but longer, spines springing from the margins of the 

 wing-cases, the thorax and the head. We found these in July, August, and 

 September on a common tree, Hydnoccnyus Wightiana, in Karwar. Though the tree 

 was usually surrounded by butterflies laying eggs, it was often difficult to get larv^. 

 They appeared to resort to the topmost tender shoots, and dropped to the ground 



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