404 nymphalid^:. 



wings broadly black with white lunules, as on the upperside, and 

 median short white lines from the margin in each lunule ; cilia 

 alternately black and white. Fore wing : basal area ochraceous 

 red, cell with transverse short bands of black and bluish white, 

 below the cell the ochraceous red at base, followed by whitish and 

 then yellow, the disc spotted with black ; the oblique white band 

 as on the upperside, succeeded by a transverse postdiscal series 

 of large black spots, ringed narrowly with white, with a row of 

 paired black dots beyond, and a subterminal broad yellow band, 

 its inner margin sinuous. Hind wing : basal area bluish, crossed 

 by broken transverse broad black lines, and followed by a red, 

 a bluish-white, a yellow, a purer white, and lastly a subterminal 

 yellow band with rows of black spots between ; on the white band 

 a median series of large black spots. Antennae black, head and 

 thorax brownish black, abdomen ochraceous ; the thorax beneath 

 ochraceous, banded with black. — $ . Similar, but the tawny yellow 

 on the upperside paler, the markings larger and somewhat diffuse. 



Exp. 6 2 72-100 mm. (2-85-3-95"). 



Hab. Southern India. 



" Larva cylindrical, but much constricted between each pair of 

 segments, and tapering somewhat towards the head. Six longi- 

 tudinal rows of fine-pointed spines ; on the head only one pair of 

 longer blunt spines. Colour dark brown, with bright red bands 

 encircling all the segments except the 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 8th ; on 

 the 6th and 8th the red is replaced by broader bands of lemon- 

 yellow. 



" Pupa : hanging vertically, slender, with two large foliaceous 

 processes springing from the middle of the back, and many less 

 prominent processes on the head, thorax and abdomen; colour 

 purplish brown, much mottled with lighter and darker shades ; six 

 dorsal spots of bright gold .... found on the wild passion-flower 

 (Modecca palmata). The caterpillar is gregarious through life." 

 {Davidson Sf AitJcen.) 



412. Cethosia nietneri, Felder, Novara Reise, Lep. Rhop. 1867, p. 380, 

 pi. 48, figs. 5, 6, S\ Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, p. 51, pi. 27, 

 figs. 3, 3 a, c? $ , 3 b, larva & pupa ; de N. Butt. 2nd. ii, 1886, 

 p. 35 ; Moore, Lep. 2nd. iv, 1899-1900, p. 183, pi. 351, figs. 1, 

 1 a-1 c, larva & pupa, $ $ . 



cJ . Upperside deep black. Fore wing : a broad line along both 

 sides of the basal halves of veins 1 and 2 and of median vein 

 ochraceous ; a curved series of short bluish streaks between the 

 veins beyond apex of cell, terminating in a much longer streak 

 above vein 4; a transverse discal series of similarly coloured 

 slender oval loops, open outwardly, followed by a series of trans- 

 verse white spots, the upper two bluish, and a subterminal row of 

 slender lunules, the tornal lunule double. Hind wing : inter- 

 space 1 a and interspace 1 to near the tornus pinkish or bluish 

 white, the markings of the underside showing through ; cell 



