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in its middle portions. Ilindwing with an even, ratlier narrow, black outer marginal 

 band, sub-terminal black spots with white caps and the entire wing blackish, with the 

 bands of the underside showing through it. Underside as in the male, the markings 

 darker, nearly black. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? lyV inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, $, 2d, ?). 



Both sexes with markings above and below very similar to those of the Wet- 

 season brood, but much paler in colour ; in the female, the white colour above is much 

 more extensive, showing on the forewing the discoidal bar and discal band of square 

 spots distinctly, the costal and outer marginal bauds are also narrower and more eAcn, 

 and on the hindwing there is a post-discal series of white spots present. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 inch. 



Larva. — Pale greenish-yellow above, sides lilacine, a narrow brownish median line, 

 followed by eight diagonal short streaks and six brownish-red spots. Before pupating 

 the colour gets much more diflfused. Feeds among the flower-beds of Plumbago. 



Pupa. — Dull yellowish, profusely mottled with brown spots (de Nice'ville). 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, China, the Malayan sub-region to Java, West 

 Africa, Aden. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from the Karen Hills, Watson from Mysore and 

 Chin Lushai, Davidson and Aitken from Karwar, Betham from the Central Provinces, 

 Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, Nurse from Kutch, de Rhe-Philipe from 

 Lucknow, Manders from the Shan States, Hampson from the Nilgiris, and it is in our 

 collection from the Khasia Hills. 



Genus NIPHANDA. 



Niphanda, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 187-t, p. 572. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 131 (1890). 

 Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 370 (1907). 



Eyes hairy. The venation closely resembling Lycsenesthes. Forewing with the 



cell a little shorter, vein 3 is emitted from before lower end of cell, 9 from middle of 7, 



12 bent a little downwards towards 11, ends on costa opposite end of cell, instead of 



before it; costa nearly straight, apex blunt, hinder angle obtuse. Hindwing, cell 



shorter than in Lycsenesthes, vein 8 arched and ends before apex of wing. Antennje 



long, more than half as long as the costa of forewing, club long, gradual ; palpi sub- 



porrect, densely clothed with short scales, not fringed with long hairs or bristles, third 



joint long, naked ; costa and outer margin evenly curved, hinder angle obtuse ; hinder 



margin convex at base, concave outwardly. 



Type, tessellata, Moore. 



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