292 NYMPHALID^E. 



a series of short black transverse lines at base, three on the fore, four 

 on the hind wing ; on the hind wing these lines occur in cellular area 



only and are very slender, with a black 

 spot in each of the interspaces above 

 them ; a white spot varying in size 

 at apex of cell in fore wing ; a broad 

 white macular slightly-curved com- 

 mon discal band, set in a dusky- 

 black background, interrupted an- 

 teriorly on fore wing, the spots in 

 interspaces 4, 5 and 6 are detached 

 and slightly out of line, the first 

 very small. Fore wing : terminal mar- 

 gin somewhat broadly dusky black, 

 the black produced in conical shape 

 inwardly in the interspaces, and tra- 

 Fig. 54.— Modusaprocris )( $. \. versed by two slender lunular pale 



lines. Hind wing : a postdiscal series 

 of transverse black spots, followed by an outer row of smaller spots ; 

 a subterminal lunular black line, and a narrow terminal black band ; 

 a pale somewhat sinuous line interposed between the subterminal 

 and terminal markings. Underside with similar but more clearly- 

 defined markings ; base of fore and basal two-thirds of the hind 

 wing pale blue ; on the hind wing the white discal band with its 

 dusky-black margins superposed on the blue area ; the postdiscal 

 series of black spots on the hind wing diffuse ; the sinuous lines 

 traversing the black terminal margin on both fore and hind wing 

 broader, more prominent, and the interspaces along the extreme 

 margin touched with white. Antennas black, ochraceous at apex ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen dark ferruginous red ; beneath bluish 

 white. 



Exp. S $ 62-78 mm. (2-47-3-08")- 



Hah. Peninsular India in regions of heavy rainfall ; Assam ; 

 Burma and Tenasserim, extending into the Malayan Subregion. 



Larva. " Found from July to October on Mitsscenda frondosa. 

 "When young it is slender cylindrical, evenly clothed with short 

 spinous tubercles and of a uniform dark brown colour. It remains 

 on one leaf eating it regularly back from the point, but leaving 

 the midrib, and as it eats, it fringes the eaten margin with its 

 excrement, held together by silk, among which it is absolutely 

 undistinguishable. After its last moult it abandons these strange 

 habits and lives openly on the upper side of a leaf .... Its head 

 is now very large and closely set with short stout simple spines, on 

 the back there is a double row of strong spines or sharp tubercles, 

 clustered at the ends o£ short stems ; on the third segment there 

 are two pairs, more laterally situated, of processes similar to those 

 on the back, but three times as long, and on the fourth segment 

 one pair longer still. The colour is still dark brown." (David- 

 son Sf Aitlcen.) 

 Food-plant, Mu$sa>nda. 



