CETHOSIA. 403 



0. cyane. Fore wing : apical half black, cell crossed by three 

 pairs of transverse black lines, the outermost pair with the disco- 

 cellular nervules between defined by black ; a discal, faintly-marked 

 series of black spots continued on to the hind wing ; three short, 

 obliquely-placed white streaks close to costal margin beyond apex 

 of cell, followed by a transverse series of four or five slender 

 lanceolate white loops, and an outer postdiscal row of white spots 

 in interspaces 2 to 6. Hind wing almost precisely similar to that 

 of G. cyane. Underside ochraceous, the outer margins of both 

 Avings dusky black, with white lunules bearing a medial line as in 

 C. cyane ; discoidal cell of fore wing with a basal and a subbasal 

 band on the hind wing dull red, the former crossed by three short 

 bands, the basal area of the hind wing by two bands of pale blue, 

 all marked with sinuous black lines ; beyond the cell in the fore 

 wing, and the subbasal red band on the hind wing, both wings 

 crossed by a band of white bordered more or less on both sides by 

 broken black lines ; finally a postdiscal series, crossing both wings, 

 of lanceolate white spots, each spot bearing inwardly an oval 

 black mark divided by a white line and outwardly two small 

 black spots. Antennae black, head and thorax dusky black ; 

 abdomen ochraceous, shaded with dusky blackish above, white 

 beneath. — $ similar. Upperside much darker, sometimes dusky 

 greenish ; markings as in the S • 



Exp. 6 2 72-93 mm. (2-9-3-75"). 



Hah. Sikhim ; Nepal ; Bhutan ; Assam ; Cachar ; Arrakan ; 

 throughout Burma and Tenasserim ; extending to the Malay 

 Peninsula and to China. 



411. Cethosia mahratta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 556; de N. Butt. 

 Ind, ii, 1886, p. 34, pi. 22, fig. 98 $ ; Davidson # Aitken, Jour. 

 Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, 1890, p. 270, pi. B, figs. 1, 1 a, larva & pupa ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, p. 181, pi. 350, figs. 1, 1 «-l c, larva & 

 pupa, S 2 • 



S . Upperside tawny yellow. Fore wing : cell anteriorly along 

 its length and the outer half of the wing, following an irregular 

 line from apex of cell to tornus, black, the black in cell formed of 

 coalescent transverse bars ; a broad discal oblique fascia traversed 

 by the black veins, followed by a postdiscal series of black-centred, 

 outward turned, slender white lunules, a transverse series of 

 white spots, and another, subterminal series of similar white 

 lunules ; interspaces 1 and 2 with three or four black spots. 

 Hind wing with broad black costal and terminal margins and 

 black markings somewhat similar to those on the hind wing of 

 G. nietneri, but the markings in the interspaces narrower, the 

 row of large spots margined with white, the inner series of lunules 

 beyond the spots black, followed by a subterminal tawny-yellow 

 band and a row of white, outward-turned, slender lunules as in 

 C. nietneri. Underside variegated with ochraceous red, bluish white, 

 yellow and black; the terminal margins of both fore and hind 



2d2 



