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the white discal spots on forewing are mucli larger. Underside paler than in 

 male. 



Expanse, i 2f, 5 2| inches. 



Larva green, with ten pair of long laterally-projecting very delicate branched 

 green spines ; a pale dorsal line with blue and white spots, head red spotted. Pupa 

 green, thick, keeled along the back, broadly triangular across the middle ; abdominal 

 end short, tubercular at tip, thoracic end long ending in two tubercular points ; a 

 band across the triangular back,, some thoracic spots, and the tubercular points 

 yellow ; a lateral row of black dots on abdomen. 



EUTHALIA VASANTA (Plate 17, Fig. 2 a, h). 

 Adolias Vasanta, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 78, pi. 7, f. 2, 2 . 



Male. Upperside blackish purple-brown : forewing with the discal area 

 transversely glossed with greenish-brown and sinuously bordered with black, dis- 

 coidal black-lined marks and streaks below the cell : hindwing with anal area 

 greenish glossed, discoidal black-lined marks, a discal curved black sinuous band, 

 and marginal row of small black spots. Underside ochreous-grey, brownish 

 externally, markings as above, less distinct. Female. Upperside olive-brown : 

 forewing with an outwardly oblique discal macular white band ; other markings and 

 underside as in male, but paler. 



Expanse, $ 2f , 9 2| inches. 



Larva dark green, with ten pair of long paler green laterally-projecting branched 

 spines ; a whitish dorsal line and a lateral row of yellow dots, the segments crossed 

 by a purple hue. Pupa short, green, keeled along the back, broadly triangular across 

 the middle ; a lateral band, a band across the triangular back, and thoracic black- 

 bordered spots yellow ; a lateral abdominal row of black dots. Feeds on Mangifera, 

 &c. 



" Common at Colombo, about mango and cashew-trees. Flight rapid. Settles 

 on the leaves and on the ground " (Hutchison). Plentiful at Galle and Kandy. (Wade.) 



Genus DOPHLA. 



Adolias, sect. V. Felder, Neues Lap. p. 35 (1861). 



Forewing triangular, costa much arched, apex truncate, exterior margin more or 

 less even, angular below the apex and very concave in the middle, posterior margin 

 long, straight ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-third before end of the cell, 



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