246 nymphalid^e. 



Pupa. " Emerald-green, covered with a white powdery bloom. 

 In general appearance it is somewhat boat-shaped .... sides com- 

 pressed, and the back highly arched and keeled." 



The above descriptions of larva and pupa are condensed from 

 Major Harford's MS. notes as given by Dr. Moore in his ' Lepi- 

 doptera Indica.' 



271. Sephisa chandra (PI. VI, fig. 44), Moore (Castalia), Cat. Lep. 

 Mus. E. I. C. i, 1858, p. 200, pi. 6 a, fig. 4 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 

 1886, p. 46 : Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 29, pi. 198, figs. 1, 

 la-lc, 6 2, pi. 199, figs. 1, 1 a-1 c, $ . 



S • Upperside deep velvety black. Pore wing with a curved 

 median series of four large rich tawny-yellow spots, followed by 

 an oblique discal series of five, and two preapical smaller snow- 

 white spots, and an obscure subterminal sinuous row of blue dots. 

 Hind wing with the markings as in S. dichroa, but of a richer 

 deeper tawny yellowy the dorsal margin to vein 1 greyish or 

 purplish white. Underside similar, with the following additional 

 markings : — Pore wing : blue spots at bases of interspace 1 and 

 discoidal cell, three minute blue spots beyond, tawny-yellow spot 

 in cell, and a double subterminal row of brilliant blue spots, the 

 apical three or four elongate, the posterior more or less lunular. 

 Hind wing as in S. dichroa, but the terminal series of spots larger 

 and brilliant blue. Antennae black ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 hlack above, spotted with blue and pale ochraceous beneath. 



2 polymorphic. First form. — Upperside similar to that of the 

 male, but the ground-colour and markings paler, the latter in the 

 cell and interspaces of the hind wing are white washed with 

 ochraceous. Underside similar to the underside in the J . 



Second form. — Upperside similar to that of the tf , but on the 

 fore wing only the uppermost of the median series of spots 

 yellow, the others and the whole of the markings on the hind 

 wing white. Underside as in the tf , but the posterior spots of 

 the median and discal bands of the fore wing and the markings on 

 the hind wing more or less as on the upperside : a few of the 

 spots washed with ochraceous. 



Third form. — Upperside: the ground-colour of the same dark 

 rich shade as in the S , the uppermost spot of the median series 

 yellow, the rest of the spots and the markings on the hind wing 

 blue. In most specimens the markings in the cell absent, those 

 in the interspaces faint and much restricted. One specimen from 

 Sikhim has a broad white preapical bar on the fore wing. Under- 

 side. Pore wing as on the upperside. Hind wing : a spot in the 

 cell, a subcostal spot and the inner half of some of the postdiscal 

 series of spots ochraceous, the rest of the markings faintly bluish 

 w T hite. 



Exp. S 2 88-100 mm. (3-45-3-94"). 



Hah. Nepal; Sikhim and eastward through the hill-ranges of 

 Assam to Upper Burma and Siam. 



