CETHOSIA. 



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spots in each, followed by a subterininal ochraceous band paling 

 inwardly. Hind wing : the base and cell pale blue and red, 

 crossed by several broken incomplete black lines, then alternate 

 bands of white and ochraceous, two of each ; the outer white 

 band narrow and marked in each interspace with three black spots 

 arranged as a triangle. Antennae, head and thorax dusky brown ; 

 abdomen above tawny, beneath white. 



2 . Similar to the male in markings, but the tawny ground- 

 colour replaced by pale greenish white, somewhat brownish on the 

 upperside of fore wing, the extent of black on this wing larger. 

 Underside with all the markings paler than in the tf , the red at the 

 base of the wings replaced by brownish yellow on the fore, white 

 on the hind wing. Antennas, head and thorax dusky brown ; 

 abdomen dusky above, white beneath. 



Exp. S 2 90-100 mm. (3-55-3-9"). 



Hah. The Himalayas, Mussooree to Sikhim, rare towards the 

 west ; Bengal ; Orissa ; Assam ; Cachar ; Arrakan ; throughout 

 Burma and Tenasserim. 



" Larva. Cylindrical, purplish-black segments with alternate 

 yellow and crimson bands. Head armed with two long spines, 

 segments with dorsal and lateral rows of fine spines. Feeds on 

 Passifora, July. (Described from drawing by Major C. H. E. 

 Adamson.)." — Moore. 



408. Cethosia nicobarica (Plate VII. fig. 53), Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. 

 Ges. Wien, xii, 1862, p. 484 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 37 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 180, pi. 319, figs. 1, 1 a-l c, S $ . 



<S $ . Closely resembles C. cyane, but in the <$ the ground- 

 colour is a rich almost vermilion red on the upperside, and the 



markings differ as follows : — Fore 

 wing: the cell crossed by alternate 

 bands of red and black, the oblique 

 white bar limited to two elongate 

 costal spots followed by a transverse 

 incomplete row of white lanceolate 

 marks, the mark in interspace 3 form- 

 ing an irregular small white patch, a 

 double row of indistinct white spots 

 beyond, no lunular marks on termen. 

 Hind wing : no white lunules on 

 termen, a row of postdiscal and one 

 or two subbasal spots black. Under- 

 side differs from the underside in 

 C. cyane in the terminal black margin 

 on both wings being narrower, and the 

 ochraceous band next to it broader and 

 of deeper richer colour ; on the fore 

 wing the oblique white discal band is 

 replaced by a transverse row of irregular white oval spots with 

 yol. i. 2d 



Fig. 72. 

 Cethosia nicobarica, 2 



