70 NYMPHALID^. 



the bind wing ; the apical ocellus on both wings the smallest, the 

 apical two on bind wing most often enclosed in tbe same inner 

 and outer rings. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown ; 

 antennae speckled with white and ochraceous at apex. 



Dry -season form.- — Differs only in the ocelli and the subterminal 

 and terminal lines, sometimes the transverse white band also, on 

 the underside, being obsolescent. 



Exp. s 2 44-51 mm. (1-75-2"). 



Hab. The Punjab, Oudh, Dehra Dun, Bengal, Sikhim, and the 

 Central Provinces in Continental India ; and to the east the Naga 

 Hills, Assam, Cachar, Arrakan, the whole of Burma and Tenasserim, 

 and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Pound also southwards 

 in the Malayan Subregion. 



Race mandata, Moore. — Differs from 0. meda in the white 

 discal band on the underside being very much broader and pro- 

 portionately more attenuate apically. Often the apical ocellus on 

 the underside of both wings is in the wet-season form smaller 

 than in 0. meda. 



Exp. d 2 47-55 mm. (1-85-2-15"). 



Hah. Southern India ; Ceylon. 



Larva. " Spindle-shaped, transversely rugose and rough .... 

 two long setose spines on the head pointed forward and two 

 central spines. The colour above is rosy-red with a blue dorsal 

 and a white lateral line, below which the underparts are green." 



Pupa. " Perpendicularly suspended, slender and regular, except 

 that the head-case is produced into a long beak formed of two 

 thin processes like split straws. Colour whitish brown, with faint 

 striae of a darker shade. It has much the look of a large grain of 

 barley" {Davidson § AiiJcen). Pood -plant, " Oryza saiiva, Linn." 

 {de MceviUe). 



Genus C(ELITES. 



Coelites, Boisduval, in Dblday., Westw. fy Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. \i, 

 1851, p. 367 :M. 8f de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 100 ; Moore, Lep. 

 2nd. i, 1890-92, p. 228. 



Type, 0. nothis, Westw., from the " East Indies." 



Mange. The Indo-Malayan Region. 



6 2 • Wings comparatively broad. Pore wing triangular, costa 

 evenly arched, apex somewhat produced but rounded ; termen in 

 S strongly, in 2 slightly concave ; dorsum straight or slightly 

 concave ; cell over half length of wing ; upper discocellular short, 

 middle directed obliquely inwards, lower obliquely outwards ; 

 veins 10 and 11 from before apex of cell, vein 12 swollen at base. 

 Hind wing very broadly oval, anterior half of termen concave, 

 posterior half and the dorsal margin convex ; tornus rounded ; 

 cell a little over half length of wing : discocellulars oblique ; 

 veins 3 and 4 stalked from a point well beyond apex of cell. 

 Antennae slender, a little over half length of fore wing, club very 



