48 LEPIDOPTEBA INDIGA. 



and the sub-basal black spots, these latter, however, often indistinct, both wings with 

 a fine terminal black line, a sub-terminal series of lunular spots edged on both sides 

 with white, and between them a series of small grey spots ; a large round sub-terminal 

 black spot crowned with orange in interspace 2, two black dots between it and the anal 

 angle, outwardly edged by a short white line ; tail black, tipped with white. Antennae 

 black, the shafts speckled with white ; palpi black above, with white hairs beneath 

 tipped with black ; head and body brown above, white beneath ; body with blue and 

 grey hairs above. 



Female. Upperside grey, with blue reflections at the base, the extent of which 

 varies much in diifereut examples. Forewing with the costa and apex broadly blackish, 

 in some examples this colour extends down the outer margin, in others it is broken 

 into three bauds on the lower portion of the wing. Hindwing with the costa broadly 

 pale blackish, extending down the outer margin in some examples, in others the band 

 is narrow with whitish sub-terminal lunules, and indications of a discal series ; a large 

 sub-terminal black spot crowned with orange in interspace 2. Underside as in the 

 male. 



Expanse of wings, $ % l-^o inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3c, $, 3d, ?). 



Male and Female like the Wet- season brood, but much paler in colour and smaller 

 in size. 



Expanse of wings, J* $ ^ to l-^ inches. 



Larva of the usual shape (i.e. onisciform) ; head light yellow, margined with 

 brown ; body light rose, covered with tiny star-topped stems so arranged as to make 

 diaoonal whitish lines to each segment ; a sub-dorsal line on the back ; anal segment 

 nearly square, the margin of the body clothed with light-coloured and longish hairs. 



Pupa of the usual form, covered with stiff, erect hair ; colour light rose, with a 

 black patchi on the second segment and centre of thorax ; it has also a dark dorsal line, 

 and the lower segments are smudged with black (Davidson, Bell and Aitken). 



Habitat. — India,. Ceylon, Burma, Andamans, Nicobars, and throughout the 

 Malayan sub-region to Australia a common insect. 



CATOCHRYSOPS LITHARGYRIA. 



Plate 651, figs. 1, (^, la, 9. 



Lampides litltargijria, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 340; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 91 (1881). 

 Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 336. Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1886, p. 429. 



