EUTHALIA. 279 



Sikhim, but recorded from Mussooree, at 10,000 ft.; Oudh ; 

 Bengal ; eastward through Bhutan, Assam, Cachar to Burma, 

 Teuasserim, Siam, Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. On continental 

 India southward from Bombay. 



Larva. " Armed with ten pairs of long, horizontally projected, 

 very delicately-branched spines. Colour grass-green with a dorsal 

 row of large purplish-brown angulated spots each with or without 

 a small pure white diamond-spot in its middle, these dorsal spots 

 placed on the anterior half of the 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th 

 and 12th segments ; the lateral spines green tipped with purple- 

 brown." (Moore.) 



Pupa. ^ " Green, but with two lateral brown marks, each with a 

 dirty-white centre and two brown points equally with whitish 

 centres between these and the terminating projection." (A. GroU 

 apud Moore.) 



297. Euthalia francise (PL Y, fig. 35), Gray (Adolias), Lep. Ins. 

 Nep. 1840, p. 12, pi. 14 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 202 ; 

 Moore (Chucapa), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 138, pi. '245, figs. 1, 

 la-Id, tf 2 ■ 



6 2 - Upperside dark blackish green ; fore wing near tornus 

 and disc of hind wing posteriorly suffused with blue. Fore wing : 

 cellular area with the usual short transverse dark lines. Pore 

 and hind wings with a prominent, slightly curved, discal, macular 

 white band traversed by the dark veins ; on the fore wing the 

 spot in the band at base of interspace 3 out of line, angulated 

 outwards ; beyond this two obliquely-placed spots in interspaces 

 5 and 6 respectively, followed by an obscure broad dark post- 

 cliscal macular band, and a subterminal row of obscure white 

 somewhat diffuse spots. Hind wing with the dark postdiscal 

 and subterminal markings of the fore wing continued to the 

 tornus, the former better defined, the latter distinct only 

 subapically, the spots obsolescent towards the tornus. Underside 

 a beautiful silvery blue. Pore and hind wings with the usual 

 slender cellular and basal dark marks respectively; the two 

 oblique spots on fore wing, the discal white band and subterminal 

 row of white spots on both wings, as on the upperside, but the 

 last more continuous, forming a narrow band, all traversed 

 outwardly by a narrow border of pale lilac ; on the fore wing the 

 dark postdiscal band of the upperside indicated near the tornal 

 angle by a large patch of dusky black, and on the hind wing by a 

 someAvhat obscure narrow sinuous white band. Antennse dark 

 brown, ochraceous at apex beneath ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 dark green, beneath pale blue. 



Exp. 6 2 78-111 mm. (3-07-4-4"). 



Hob. Nepal ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam ; Upper Burma, Ruby 

 Mines district and Northern Shan States. 



