248 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Extreme Dry-season Brood = interrujAus (Figs, le, $, If, ?, Ig, ?). 



Male and Female. Upperside white. Forewing with a broad black band, that 

 commences at the base, runs along the costa, in the middle of which there is a slight 

 excavation, runs round the apex and outer margin and curves with a square ending 

 a little inwards and a small upward streak at the angle. Hindwing with a little black 

 at the base, a somewhat narrow, outer marginal black border, all the rest of both 

 wings pure white. Underside with the markings very small, the streak in the middle 

 of the abdominal margin of hindwing absent, as also is the lower discal spot ; the 

 sub-terminal lunules very much constricted. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? l^V inches. 



Larva. — Feeds on the tender leaves of the " chorna," Zizyphus rugosa ; pale green, 

 of the usual woodlouse form, with the head concealed under the second segment. 

 The whole body is more or less pubescent, and there is a fringe of longer hairs on each 

 side ; it may be known from the larva of C. ethion by having two green bands on the 

 back instead of one. 



Pupa. — Short and stout, constricted between the thorax and abdomen, clothed 

 with short hair, closely attached by tail and band to any convenient surface ; colour 

 ochreous mottled with brown (Davidson and Aitken). 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Western and Southern India, Burma, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Eecorded by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Manders from the 

 Shan States, by Davidson from Karwar, by Betham from the Central Provinces, by 

 Watson from Chin Lushai, by Aitken from Salsette and Matheran, by de Ehe-Philipe 

 from the Konkan ; it is in the B. M. from Mysore, Nilgiris (Hewitson's type), Ceylon 

 (Moore's type), Calcutta, Sikkim, Maldah, Maulmein, Tilin Yaw ; and many examples 

 in our collection from the Khasia Hills. 



ALLIED INDO-MALATAN SPECIES. 



Casialius ilissus, Danis ilissus, Felder, Wien, Ent. Mon. iii. p. 186 (1859). Lycrena ilissus, Felder, 



Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. pi. 33, figs. 25, 26 (1865). Habitat, Celebes. 

 Castaltiis rliode, Lycrena rhode, Hopifer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 27. Synonym, Castalius roxus, var. 



celebensis, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 96. Habitat, Celebes. 

 Castalius argola, Lycsena argola, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. v. (Lycfena), pi. i. fig. 7, 9 (1876). Semper, 



Reise, Philipp. v. p. 188 (1890). Habitat, Philippines. 

 Castalius angustior, Castalius roxus, var. angustior, Staudinger, Lep. Palawan, p. 95 (1889). Semper, 



l.c. p. 189. Habitat, Philippines. 

 Castalius uhjsscs, Staudinger, l.c. pi. i. fig. 5, ^ . Semper, l.c. p. 188. Habitat, Philippines. 

 Castalius morosi, Semper, I.e. p. 187, pi. 33, fig. 14, ^ (1890). Habitat, Philippines. 

 Castalius austini, Heron, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1894, p. 193. Habitat, Damma Island. 

 Castalius ulyssides, Grose-Smith, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 511 (1895). Habitat, Celebes. 



