242 LEPIDOPTEEA INDIOA. 



Lmago. — Male. Upperside dark blue with a broad white transverse band across 

 both wings. Forewing with the costal line thickly black ; a broad, even, outer marginal 

 black border ; the white band extends from the hinder margin to vein 6, and above 

 vein 3 it projects outwards for a short distance ; all the rest of the wing is dark blue. 

 Hindicing with an outer marginal black band like that of the forewing ; the white 

 band continued across the wing, the remaining portion of the wing dark blue. 

 Underside white, with black bands and spots. Forewing with an oblique sub-basal 

 transverse band ; a slightly broader parallel band on its outer side, narrowing upwards, 

 and slightly bent inwards on to the costa at its middle ; a discal band, composed of an 

 outwardly curved streak from the costal third, thickening hindwards to vein 4 ; a 

 small spot below it, and an erect band from vein 3 to vein 1 a little on the inner side. 

 Tlindwing with two short sub-basal bands in continuation of those on the forewing, 

 a discal band of three large spots, the middle spot nearer the margin than the others ; 

 l)oth wings with complete rows of sub-terminal and anticiliary spots, the former the 

 larger, the two spots near the angle the largest, and a terminal black line. CiUa black, 

 tipped with white. Antennae, head and body black above and beneath ; beneath the 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen with a median, longitudinal white line ; tails black, tipped 

 with white. 



Female. Upperside marked like the male, but the medial white band much 

 broader, the blue coloration much restricted, sometimes almost entirely absent. 

 Underside like the male, but the two oblique basal bands of the forewing generally 

 further apart. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? lyo inches. 



Larva. — Feeds on young shoots of Zizyphus jujuha and is of the woodlouse form, 

 but flattened. Its texture, though apparently smooth, if looked at with a lens, is found 

 to be thickly covered with white hairs ; its colour is greenish-white, with a faint green 

 dorsal band. 



Pupa. — Similar in shape to that of C. rosimon, Fabricius, but smaller and narrower. 

 It is of a bright apple-green, with a darkish green line down the centre. There are 

 some red dots on the edges of the wing-cases (Davidson, Bell and Aitken). 



Habitat. — Assam, Burma, South India, Ceylon, extending into the Malay 

 .sub-region. 



Distribution. — Eecorded by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Watson from Mysore 

 and Chin Lushai, and by Elwes from the Karen Hills, by Moore from Ceylon, by 

 Davidson from Karwar ; it is in the B. M. from Silhet (Hewitson's type), Chittagong, 

 Upper Burma, Rangoon, Mergui, Siam, Andamans, Tonkin, Penang, Malacca, Singapore, 

 Borneo and Java ; and in our collection also from Bombay, Trevandrum, and the 

 Andamans. 



