274 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



edged with white. Foreiving with a short brown bar at the end of the cell, a discal 

 series of round black spots, the upper one curved inwards below the costa, the lower 

 two in a line a little inwards ; a sub-terminal double row of pale brown lunular marks 

 more or less joined together with white lunular marks between them, and on the inner 

 side a very fine terminal brown line with inner white edging. Hindwing with four 

 sub-basal black spots in a line, a black spot in the middle of the costa, three transverse, 

 irregular bands of the ground colour, divided by the veins, formed by their white 

 edgings ; the marginal spots and orange markings as on the upper side, the three 

 black spots with metallic green scales. 



Female. Upperside dark brown, both wings with a darker marginal line. Hind- 

 wing with four black spots edged inwardly by an orange band, composed of broad 

 lunular marks joined together. Underside like the male, except for the four black 

 spots with metallic scales and the orange band which are the same as on the upperside. 

 Antennae black, speckled with white above, nearly all white beneath ; head and body 

 blackish above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? -x% inch. 



Larva. — When full-grown a little over a quarter of an inch in length, onisciform 

 as usual ; the head very small, black and shining, entirely hidden when at rest, being 

 covered by the second segment ; the colour of the body grass-green, with a dark green 

 dorsal line from the third to the twelfth segment ; two sub-dorsal series of short 

 parallel streaks, each pair being divided from the next by the segmental constriction, 

 these streaks paler than the ground colour ; an almost pure white lateral line below the 

 spiracles, which is the most conspicuous of all the markings ; the segmental constrictions 

 rather deep ; the whole surface of the body shagreened, being covered with very small 

 whitish tubercles from which spring very faint short colourless hairs. The usual 

 extensile organs on the twelfth segment; food plant Heliotropium strigosum, Willd. 

 Professor A. Forel identifies the ant which attends it as Pheidole quadrispinosa, 

 .Terdon. 



Pupa. — About f^- of an inch in length, pale green, of the usual lycasnid shape, 

 densely covered everywhere except on the wing-cases with somewhat long white 

 hairs (de Niceville). 



Habitat. — Northern and North-Western India, Asia Minor, Persia, Arabia and 

 many parts of Africa. 



Distribution.— de Niceville records it from the Chin Hills, Betham from the 

 Central Provinces, Watson from Chin Lushai, Mackinnon and de Niceville from 

 Mussuri, de Rhe-Philipe from Lucknow, Leslie and Evans from Chitral ; we have taken 

 it at Quetta, the Hubb River, Beloochistan and at Karachi, and have received it from 

 Attock, Ranighat and Kairabad. It is in the B. M. also from Aden, Muscat, Socotra 

 and many parts of Africa. 



