388 NYMPHALIDiE. 



broader, diffuse and irrorated with dusky scales. — $ . Hind wing 

 entirely without the transverse broad discal whitish band, or some- 

 times this band represented only by a pale shading. 



Exp. J 74-96, 2 90-114 mm. ( <$ 2-94-3-8", $ 3-55-4-5"). 



Hab. Throughout our limits, extending to the Malayan Subregion 

 and to China. 



Larva. " Cylindrical, armed with nine longitudinal rows of fine 

 branched spines ; a single pair of longer and stouter spines on the 

 head. Colour very dark rich brown ; head light brown." (David- 

 son Sf Aitken.) 



Pupa. " Dark earthy brown mottled with a lighter shade ; 

 somewhat angular about the head and thorax ; abdominal segments 

 armed with dorsal rows of short sharp tubercles." (Davidson 4' 

 Aitken.) 



This is a variable insect. — S . The blue patch on the upperside 

 of the hind wing is sometimes in both seasonal forms entirely 

 devoid of the pale centering. — $ • The discal oblique iridescent 

 blue spots on upperside of fore wing in both seasonal forms 

 occasionally reduced to one spot. The underside in both seasonal 

 forms is also variable ; as to the presence or absence of the discal 

 white band and subterminal white markings on the hind wing, 

 these latter are often much reduced in size. 



398. Hypolimnas misippus, Linn. (Papilio) Mus. Ulr. 1764, p. 264$; 

 Moore (Apatura), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 59, pi. 29, figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, 

 S 5, larva & pupa ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 126, pi. 20, 

 fig. 85, tf $ ; Betham, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. v. 1890, p. 282; 

 Moore (Apatura), Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 144, pi. 332, figs. 1, 

 1«-1/, d 1 ?. 



c? . Upperside rich velvety dark brownish black. Fore wing : 

 a broad oval oblique white spot from below vein 3 to vein 7, and 

 a preapical smaller similar white spot ; both spots crossed by 

 black veins and surrounded by iridescent blue. Hind wing with 

 a much larger similar rounded white spot, surrounded with iri- 

 descent blue, but the veins crossing it yellowish, not so prominent 

 as on the fore wing ; two or three minute specks of white at the 

 tornus. Cilia of both fore and hind wings white alternated with 

 black. Underside fore wing: bases of interspaces 1 and 2 and 

 cell rich light castaneous, discal area fuscous brown ; apical half 

 golden brown ; basal half of costal margin flecked with white : 

 cell anteriorly black with three white spots ; a narrow, transverse, 

 very short, white mark beyond apex of cell ; a very broad, somewhat 

 oval, white discal patch from costa to middle of interspace 2 edged 

 with diffuse dusky black ; the preapical white spot as on the 

 upperside but not surrounded with blue, continued posteriorly as 

 a transverse series of small postdiscal white spots ; an inner and 

 an outer transverse series of white lunules divided by a sinuous 

 black line followed by a terminal black line. Hind wing ; basal 

 and postdiscal areas chestnut-red ; a black spot at base of vein 8 



