362 NYMPHALIDiE. 



costa. Hind wing : a small minutely white-centred and very 

 slenderly black-ringed discal ocellus in interspace 2, with a very 

 much larger pale yellow and black-ringed ocellus above it spreading 

 over interspaces 4, 5 and 6, the centre of this ocellus inwardly 

 brownish orange, outwardly bluish black, with two minute white 

 spots in vertical order between the two colours ; finally postdiscal, 

 subterminal and terminal black sinuous lines. Underside ochra- 

 ceous brown, very variable. In most specimens the cell of the 

 fore wing is crossed by three dark sinuous bands, the outermost 

 along the discocellulars ; these are very faint in some ; both' fore 

 and hind wings crossed by a basal and a discal pale sinuous line, 

 the latter margined outwardly by a dark shade, Avhich is traversed 

 by an obscure somewhat obsolescent row of dark spots, and 

 outwardly bounded by a subterminal sinuous line, the dark shade 

 in many cases spreading on the fore wing to the terminal edge of 

 the wing ; on the hind wing the subterminal line meets the discal 

 in an acute angle at the tornus. Antennae dark brown; head, 

 thorax and abdomen more or less orange-brown ; paler beneath. 



Wet-season form. — $ $ . Upperside similar, the black markings 

 deeper in colour and heavier, the subterminal and terminal lines 

 more clearly defined. Underside pale ochraceous. Fore wing : 

 cell crossed by five short sinuous dark brown lines, a similar line 

 on the discocellulars and another beyond it, both bent inwards at 

 an angle and continued to the dorsum, the space between them 

 forming a discal broad fascia, which pales to whitish posteriorly ; 

 the postdiscal ocelli, subterminal and terminal lines as on the 

 upperside but paler. Hind wing : a slender transverse subbasal 

 dark line, a discal whitish straight fascia in continuation of the 

 one on the fore wing ; the postdiscal ocelli, the subterminal and 

 terminal lines much as on the upperside but paler ; the anterior 

 ocellus with a double iris and centre. Antennae dark brown ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen slightly darker than in the dry-season 

 form. 



Exp. <5 2 54-62 mm. (2-13-2-42"). 



Hob. Throughout our limits ; abundant in some districts. 

 .Found also in the Malayan Subregion, and in China and Japan. 



Larva. " Cylindrical. Head blackish, slightly hairy. Body 

 pale ochreous-brown, with a dorsal, subdorsal and lateral blackish 

 line, and a row of small-ringed spots below the latter ; second 

 segment anteriorly with a transverse reddish stripe ; second, 

 third and fourth segments posteriorly with a transverse blackish 

 stripe ; second to last segment armed with a dorsal, subdorsal, and 

 two lateral rows of short, fine-branched spines." {Moore.) 



Pupa. " B-ather short and thick ; head and thorax broad, head- 

 piece pointed beneath ; thorax and abdomen dorsally with short 

 tubercular points ; colour browaish-ochraceous." {Moore.) 



