2i2 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



(juite smootli, the rest of the pupa covered with tiny pits, giving it a rough appearance 

 under a magnifying glass. It is entirely without angulations or processes, its widest 

 portion is the very broad and flat base on which it rests ; its length is about yg of ^^ 

 inch, breadth about y\, height y\, the anal end produced into an obtuse point. There 

 is a conspicuous, heart-shaped, pale ochreous mark on the top of the thorax, the pits 

 upon it above mentioned being filled in with reddish pigment, there are also three 

 regular rows of tiny ochreous dots on the abdominal segments on each side, the 

 divisions between the segments hardly visible. 



Habitat. — Central and Southern India, Ceylon, Java. 



Distribution. — Never very common, but fairly well distributed, all over the 

 plains and lower hills of Central and Southern India where there are plenty of trees. 

 We have taken it in Bombay and at Khandala, Poona and Mhow, Watson records it 

 from Mysore, Hampson from the Nilgiris, and de Niceville from Kandy, Trincomali 

 and from many parts of Central and Southern India. 



CURETIS STIGMATA. 



Plate 698, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



Anops stigmata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 138. , 



Curetis stigmata, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lend. 1886, p. 34. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 295 (1890). 

 Curetis hulis, var. stigmata, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 466 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blackish brown. Forewing with a broad orange- 

 red patch in the middle of the wing, occupying the outer lower half of the cell, and 

 rather more than the basal half of the two medial interspaces, with a little of the red 

 colour extending hindwards into the next lower interspace. Hindwing with a curved 

 orange-red patch in the upper disc, very much of the same shape as the white patch on 

 the hindwing of the female of C. thetys ; abdominal fold pale. Underside white. 

 Forewing with a pale grey thin and straight band of somewhat luuular marks from 

 near the costa near the apex to the hinder margin beyond the middle, edged outwardly 

 by thin brown lunular marks, which bend inwards at the upper end and then turn 

 abruptly towards the costa, a sub-marginal indistinct thin grey band. Hinda-ing with 

 an indistinct thin grey discal band in continuation of the inner band of the forewing, 

 which runs straight for a short distance, then curves well outwards and inwards to the 

 abdominal margin, and a sub-marginal band as on the forewing. Antennae black, with 

 red tips ; palpi, head and body black above, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside dark blackish-brown. Forewing with a rather small white 

 patch in the middle of the wing, which is broadest in its middle, and is angled on its 

 outer side. Hindwing with a small nearly round white spot in the upper disk below 



