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NYMPHALIILE. 



following the outline of the margin. Hind wing : a slender black 

 loop in the apex of the cellular area, a large ocellus similar to the 

 discal ocellus on the fore wing across interspaces 4, 5 and 6, often 

 with its outer rings enclosing a much smaller ill-formed ocellus 

 anteriorly ; postdiscal, subterminal and terminal dark brown, some- 

 what lunular lines. Underside in the wet-season form ochraceous 

 brown. Fore wing : basal half crossed by three broad pale dark- 

 edged sinuous bands, beyond which the angulated discal, the 

 postdiscal, subterminal and terminal markings of the upper- 

 side show faintly through ; the discal ocellus as on the upperside, 

 but not so clearly defined and without the blue centre. Hind 

 wing with three or four sinuous, ill-defined, band-like pale 

 markings on the basal half, the outer faint bands coalescing ; 

 followed by a postdiscal dark broad band traversed by a row of 

 minute dots interrupted by two large black ocellar spots, and 

 a faint subterminal lunular brownish line. In the dry-season 

 form the ground-colour is ochraceous yellow, often ochraceous red, 

 the markings more obscure, the two large black ocellar spots 

 reduced to the size of the others in the row. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen dark brown ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen pale dull ochraceous. 



Exp. S 2 5§-62 mm. (2-2-2-45"). 



Hah. Throughout our limits. 



Larva. " After -first moult. Black, with four rows of branched 

 spines, abdomen pale brown-black, legs black, head with a trans- 

 verse yellow band behind ; stigmata white. After last moult. 

 Length 1 inch, cylindrical and spiny, lead-colour minutely spotted 

 with darker and whitish dots ; head brown, spiny, spotted with 

 black, with a white central triangular patch ; anterior portion 

 of first segment yellow; stigmata black." (Capt. Chaumette fide 

 Moore.} 



Pupa. " Light brown speckled with whitish and variegated with 

 darker brown." {Capt. Chaumette fide Moore.) 



372. Junonia orithya, Linn. (Papilio) Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1758, p. 473 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 41, pi. 22, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, <$ 2 , larva 

 & pupa ; id. Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 69, pi. 311, figs. 1, 1 a-le, 

 $ 2 , larva & pupa. 

 Junonia orithyia, Doubleday, in Dblday., Westw. fy Hew. Gen. Di. 

 Lep. i, 1849, p. 209 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 73. 



c? . Upperside : somewhat more than half the fore wing from base 

 velvety black, apical half dull fuliginous ; cell-area with or without 

 two short transverse orange bars ; a blue patch above the tornus ; 

 the outer margin of the basal black area obliquely zigzag in a line 

 from the middle of costa to apex of vein 2, including a large discal, 

 generally obscure ocellus, which, however, in some specimens is 

 prominently ringed with orange-yellow. Beyond this a broad white 

 irregularly oblique discal band followed by a short oblique preapical 

 bar from costa ; a small black orange-ringed ocellus beneath 

 the bar, a subterminal continuous line of white spots in the 



