EVEBINM 277 



black with white spots ; tails black with white tips. Antennre black, ringed with white ; 

 head and body black above, white beneath. 



Female. Like the male above, on the underside, the black cell bar of forewiug is 

 replaced by a large black round spot, and the white spots in the outer portion are much 

 larger. Hindwing with the spots larger, the orange outer band paler, and near its 

 inner side is an irregular band of black spots in addition to those in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ly\, ? Ij^ inches. 



Larva. — Feeds on Bryophyllum calycinum, is onisciform, but much rounded, and 

 with the segments at the divisions very clearly defined ; head small, almost concealed, 

 last segment flattened. It is in colour fleshy-white, with a row of nine black dots along 

 the back on each side, and a ring of four similar dots on the segment nearest the head ; 

 it is profusely covered with small white hairs ; it feeds in the interior of the fleshy 

 leaves, only emerging in order to turn pupa. 



Pupa. — Much resembles the larva, being short and blunt, and covered with short, 

 white hair. It is of the same fleshy colour as the larva, and has two lines of small 

 black dots along the surface of the abdomen continued along the thorax. It also has a 

 third row of four similar dots on the middle of the abdomen between them ; the two 

 dots on the thorax nearest the head are also connected with two other dots 

 (Davidson, Bell and Aitken). 



Habitat. — South India and Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, Watson from Mysore and 

 Chin Lushai, Aitken from Mahableshwur, de Ehe-Philipe from Khandala, Manders from 

 the Shan States ; we have taken it also at many places round and about Bombay, and 

 have received it also from Ceylon. There is a curious albino example from Ceylon in 

 the B. M., on the upperside the black portion is very deep black, and the patch in the 

 hindwing, instead of being orange-red, is pure white. 



TALICADA KHASIANA. 



Plate 639, figs. 4, <J , 4a, ? , 4b, $ . 



Talicada Uasiana, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 296. 



Talicada nyseus, var. khasia, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, p. 113. 



Talicada nyseus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. pi. 26, fig. 179, $ (1890). 



Imago. — Male. LTpperside black. Foreioing as in nyseus. Hindwing with the 

 orange-red band much narrower and of a diff'erent shape, both ends of it being more or 

 less rounded. Underside greyish-white, markings deep black. Forewing with a round 

 spot at the end of the cell, immediately followed by a broad, dislocated, transverse band, 

 then a broad white space, then a post-discal, narrower, somewhat even band, joined by 

 thin black bars on the veins to a sub-terminal, still narrower and quite even band. 



