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Larva. — Feeds on Zizyphus xylopyrus and Z. loranthus, only on the parenchyma 

 of the leaf, is of the usual woodlouse form, slightly flattened ; head concealed in the 

 second segment, surface more or less rough ; a fringe of long white bristles all round, 

 with an erected ridge of similar bristles along the back from the 2nd segment, those 

 on the 3rd to 7th segments, and the last two, much longer than the others, those on 

 the 2nd segment very few, short and black. It has a conspicuous gland on the 12th 

 segment, and is attended by a small species of ant of the genus Creniastogaster. Its 

 colour is pale green ; the dorsal portion of the 2nd, 4th, 5 th, 6 th and last two segments 

 being park brown, while the centre segments are almost yellow with a darker dorsal 

 line. 



Pupa. — Of the usual Castallus form, but narrow and slightly flattened. It is 

 intensely glossy, as if covered with gum. It varies in colour, being sometimes black, 

 at others green, with inconstant black markings. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Orissa, Southern India. 



Distribution. — The type came from Sikkim ; Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, 

 Watson from the Chin Hills ; we have received many examples from the Khasia Hills ; 

 it is in the B. M. also from the Nilgjiris and N. Kanara. 



CASTALIUS ROSIMON. 



Plate 630, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, <J , Id, ? , le, ? (Dry-season Brood), 

 If, ^ , Ig, 9 (Extreme Dry-season Brood). 



Papilio rosimon, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 523 (1775) ; id. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 121 (1781); id. Mant. Ins. ii. 

 p. 71 (1787). Herbst. pi. 289, figs. 5 to 7 (1800). 



Hesperia rosimon, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (i.) p. 288 (1793). 



Polyommafus rosimon, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 658 (1833). 



Lycsena rosimon, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 71 (1828). Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1876, p. 152. 



Cupido rosimon, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 106. 



Lampides rosimon, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 235. 



Castalius rosimon, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 70 (1816). Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 162 

 (1869). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 83, pi. 36, fig. 2 (1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1888, p. 357. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 197 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1890, p. 34. de Niceville, id. p. 386. Mauders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 529. Watson, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 47. Betham, id. p. 179. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 

 p. 628. Swinboe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 299. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. vol. X. 1896, p. 379 (life history). Watson, id. 1897, p. 661. Mackinnon, id. 1898, 

 p. 381. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 489. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 48. 

 Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 424 (woodcut) (1907). 



Papilio maimon, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 534 (1775) ; id. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 137 (1781) ; id. Mant. 

 Ins. ii. p. 90 (1787). 



Hesperia maimon, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (i.), p. 349 (1793). 



Papilio clyton, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 67, figs. F, G (1775). 



