I'lO LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Pupa short and stout, the thoracic and abdominal portions being about the same 

 height. Its colour varies with its situation, but is generally a brownish-white, much 

 mottled with darker brown, and with a darker band along the thorax, extending along 

 the centre of the abdomen. It is smooth, and not covered with hair (Davidson, Bell 

 and Aitken). 



Habitat.— India, Burma, Andamans, Ceylon, Malayana, Java. 



DiSTRiBUTiOiSr. — Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, Elwes from the Naga and 

 Karen Hills, Betham from Pachmari, Central Provinces, Davidson from Karwar, 

 Watson from the Chin Hills, Mackinnon from Mussuri, Aitken from Matheran ; we 

 have it also from Sikkim, Kulu, Andamans, and many examples from the Khasia and 

 •Taintia Hills. 



LTC^NOPSIS LILACEA. 



Plate 621, figs. 1, <?, la, ?, lb, $. 



Cyaniris lilacea, Hampson, Proc. Nilgii-i, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 14. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 



India, Butt. ii. p. 324 (1907). 

 Cyaniris puspa, var. lilacea, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. 

 Cyaniris puspa, de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 100 (1890). 

 Cyaniris crissa, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 31, pi. 2, fig. 12. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, shining purplish-blue. Forewing with the costal line 

 black, and a narrow black marginal band, broade.st at the apex, and gradually 

 narrowing hindwards. Hindwing with a costal black band, which sometimes does not 

 quite touch the costa ; on the outer part of the wing, this band is carried round the 

 apex, where it is somewhat thickened, and gradually narrows down to the anal angle ; 

 some sub-terminal black spots. Underside greyish-white, markings brown. Furemng 

 with some dots on the costa beyond the middle ; a rather thick linear mark at the end 

 of the cell ; a post-discal row of spots, curving from the costal fourth, with two spots, 

 then in a line down the wing, the second spot of the line being outwardly oblique. 

 Jlindwing with a sub-basal small black spot and two larger ones near it, one sub- 

 costal and the other below it, and another sub-costal black spot near the apex, and a 

 smaller one immediately below it ; a line at the end of the cell, and a discal row of 

 nrarkings much as in C. puspa, both wings with an angulated sub-terminal line, and a 

 fine marginal black line ; the first, third and last spot between them black on the 

 liindwing ; cilia black tipped with white. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head 

 and body black above, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiomg with broad black outer borders, commencing 

 narrowly at the base of the costa, widening outwards, round the apex and down the 

 outer margin, broadest at the lower angle ; the inner portions of the wing darkly 

 suffused with pale blackish, with l)lue scales at the base, becoming paler outwards 



