178 LEI'IDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, ?, Ic, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale blue, brighter and slightly darker than in Ilippia, 

 veins more broadly black, especially the medial vein of the forewing, the costal band 

 similar, the outer marginal band very broad, occupying more than a third of the wing, 

 and quite spotless, the broadness of the band making the outer blue interspaces very 

 short, especially those in front of the cell, which are very short. Hindwlng with a 

 similar broad outer band, the androconia scales not covering the whole band as they 

 do in Naraka and Ceylanica, but gradually narrowing hindwards. Underside much 

 paler and duller in colour, all the veins with pale blackish bands, a sub-marginal row of 

 lunular blackish marks joined together, making a marginal series of large pale blue 

 spots on both wings, edged on the extreme margin with pale blackish colour. 



Female. Upperside black, with the stripes and spots disposed much as in Hlppia, 

 the former, however, are all very narrow. Underside as in the Wet-season form of 

 liippia. 



Expanse, ,? 3, ? Z^^q inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs, id, $, le, ?, If, $, Ig, ?). 



Male. Upperside coloured as in the other form, the black bands on the veins 

 thinner, the outer marginal bands much narrower, not as a rule broader than in the 

 Wet- season form of Hippia. Underside very much paler, the black stripes on the 

 wings almost obsolete except the sub-costal and median veins of Xha foreioing. 



Female with the stripes and spots disposed as in the Wet-season form, but much 

 broader, the inner portion of the hindicing on the underside much whiter, the lower veins 

 almost without markings. 



Expanse, $ 2^, $ 3yV inches. 



Larva. — Feeds on Cap)aris Heyneana, is long, cylindrical, or slightly depressed 

 and tapering perceptibly from the head, which is large, to the tail, which ends in two 

 short strong spines clothed with bristles ; the body is clothed with very minute hairs, 

 iolour green, with a lateral row of conspicuous white spots, from the 5th to the 12th 

 .segment, and rows of smaller spots on the back. 



Pupa. — Suspended by the tail and by a very long band, this is a curious object, the 

 thoracic portion being bent back almost at right angles to the abdominal, and the head 

 produced into a very long, sharp snout, while the wing cases form a keel nearly half an 

 inch in depth, and so thin as to be almost transparent ; colour a uniform pale watery- 

 green. (Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 357.) 



Habitat. — South India. 



Distribution. — We have it from the Nilgiris, Malabar and Kanara Districts, and 

 Fergusson recorded it from Travancore. 



