236 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



first. After laying three or four eggs, she would refresh herself with a sip of 

 honey from the flowers, and then begin to lay again. She showed no signs of fear, 

 and on one occasion left the Pansies and sat for some time on my dress. In going 

 from one plant to another, she sometimes dragged her body along the ground as if 

 in the act of laying, but deposited no eggs. She sometimes curled her body round 

 the leaves of Fhlox that were growing among the Pansies, but seemed to recoil from 

 their rough surface, aud left no egg on thera. Most of the eggs were hiid on the 

 underside of the outer leaves, a few on the stalk of the plant. The larva? were 

 all black, except the orange-tawny dorsal stripe, and all the sjaines were black. 

 Presently they went into pupa, suspending themselves by the tail from the top of 

 the cage. When the imago emerged I was surprised and delighted to find it a 

 beautiful A. Nlphe. Males and females emerged in about equal numbers. One 

 lusus natura;, a male, had one wing as in the ordinary male, and the other as in the 

 female " (Mrs. S. Robson, Journ. Bombay JSTat. Hist. Soc. 1893, 151). 



ACIDALIA CASTETSI (Plate 373, fig. 2, 2a, c? ?)■ 



Arfjynnis Niphe, var. Castetsi, Oberthur, Bull. Soc. Eiit. France, 1S89, p. 235; id. Etudes Ent. 1891, 

 p 9, pi. 1, fig. 1, ? (in garb of S)- 



Imago. — Male and female. Differs from typical Hi/perbius {Niphe) in the forewing 

 being comparatively shorter and less produced apically. Male. Upperside with 

 similar black markings. Forewing with the inner-discal series of spots somewhat 

 narrower, the outer-discal series having the spot above the upper median and also 

 the lower spot larger, the submarginal row of spots are also narrower ; the lower 

 median veinlet is furnished with a prominent posteriorly recumbent series of raised 

 androconial scales, for a portion of its length. Eindwing with the outer-discal row 

 of spots somewhat larger and the submarginal narrower. Underside. Forewing 

 with the basal area bright reddisli-ochreous ; mai^kings as above. 



Female. Upperside duskier fulvous than in male, with markings similar. 

 Forewing with the subapical oblique white band transversely shorter and narrower 

 than in Hi/perbius. Underside similar to male, except subapical band on forewing, 

 as above. The type-specimen, described and figured as a female — in the garb of 

 the male — is distinguished from an ordinarily-marked female, by the absence, on the 

 forewing, of the oblique white subapical band, aud also of the white apical and outer 

 marginal spots, the ground-colour of these parts being of the usual fulvous colour 

 similar to that in the male. 



Expanse, c? ? 1(\ to 1^^^ inches. 



Habitat. — South India. 



Distkibut:on\ — The type-specimeu is recorded from Trichiuopoly. Occurs 



