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Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, ?, le, ?). 



Male and Female. Upperside white, bands and spots black, but not of so deep a 

 colour as in the Wet-season form, the blue basal irroration much more limited, the 

 spots smaller, the outer bands narrower, that on the hindwing having the adjacent 

 spots on its inner side disconnected from the band, and the row of white lunules inside 

 it much more pronounced. Underside similar to the other form, but all the markings 

 more attenuated. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1-^ inches. 



Extreme Dry-season Brood = chota (Figs. If, $, Ig, $). 



A very minute form in both sexes ; on the upper side the markings are very pale, 

 and above and below they are very small. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? -^-^ to 1 inch. 



Larva. — Feeds on Zizyphus jujuba, and is of a rough texture as if shagreened all 

 over. It is of the usual woodlouse form, much flattened towards the anal segment, 

 which is very broad ; head concealed ; colour bright green with a double, dorsal, yellow 

 line and the sides powdered with small yellow spots. 



PcTPA. — Fastened by the tail along a leaf horizontally (the band across the thorax 

 being very lax). It is much contracted at the thorax, while the abdominal portion is 

 large and rounded and much higher than the thorax. It is of a bright green with 

 faint yellow bands on the abdomen and two or three black spots there. It 

 also shows traces of a darker band in the centre of the abdomen (Davidson, Bell 

 and Aitken). 



Habitat. — India, South of the Himalayas, Ceylon, Burma, Andamans, Nicobars 

 and the Malay sub-region, a common species. 



CASTALIUS ETHION. 



Plate 630, figs. 2, (^ , 2a, 9 > 2b, $ (imago), 2c (larva and pupa). 



Lyesena ethion, Doubleday and Hewitson, Cat. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 490, pi. 76, fig. 3, ^ (1852). 



Hewitson, Ex. Butt. v. (Lycajna), pi. 1, fig. 3, ^ (1876). Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1876, p. 152. 

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

 Castalius ethion, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 587 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 83, pi. 36, figs. 5, 5a, ^ 



(1881). Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 547. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 248. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 216, pi. 22, fig. 25, <J (1884). 



Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 357. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 



p. 386. Watson, id. p. 34, and 1891, p. 47. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 628. de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 198 (1890). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1896, p. 380, pi. 4, figs. 4, 4a (larva and pupa). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. 



p. 426 (1907). 

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