CETHOSIA. — CYNTHIA. 



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black, with an ochraceous black-centred spot ; interspaces 1-5 



bluish white on disc, with very 

 broad median short streaks, fol- 

 lowed by a series of large oval 

 spots of the black ground-colour ; 

 terminal and costal margins very 

 broadly black, traversed by a post- 

 discal row of transverse short, 

 white, inwardly-turned lunules, 

 and a subterminal row of much 

 more slender, outwardly-turned , 

 similarly coloured lunules. Cilia 

 white. Underside : basal and discal 

 areas of both fore and hind wings 

 bluish green, variously barred and 

 spotted with black, the short 

 white streaks between the veins 

 beyond apex of cell as on the 

 upperside ; a postdiscal band of 

 pinkish white, somewhat obscure 

 on the fore, more clearly denned on 

 the hind wing, traversed by a series of oval black spots, followed 

 by a broad subterminal even band of ochraceous yellow, inwardly 

 margined by a row of black dots ; terminal margins broadly black, 

 traversed by a series of slender outwardly turned white lunules, 

 each lunule with a short white median streak from the margin. 

 Antennae black ; head and thorax black above, greenish white 

 spotted with black beneath ; abdomen ochraceous, barred with 

 black, beneath whitish with numerous black dots. — 2 • Similar, all 

 the black markings smaller ; the base posteriorly of the fore 

 wing on the upperside greenish blue, no trace of ochraceous. 

 Exp. & 2 82-110 mm. (3'22-4-32"). 

 Hob. Ceylon. 



Larva. " Cylindrical, purplish black with red transverse bands, 

 the sixth and eighth segments with a yellow band. Head armed 

 with two long branched spines, the segments with two dorsal and 

 two lateral rows of long, slender, finely-branched spines. Feeds on 

 Modecca." (Moore.) 



Pupa. " Brown mottled with ochreous-white, abdominal seg- 

 ments tubercular ; wing-case dilated and exfoliated beneath. 

 Head-piece with two pointed processes." (Moore.) 



Genus CYNTHIA. 



Cynthia, Fabr. Illig. Mag. vi, 1807, p. 281 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 

 1880, p. 52 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 40 ; Moore, Lep. Lnd. iv 

 1899-1900, p. 187. 



Type, C. arsinoe, Cramer, from Sumatra. 

 Range. Indo-Malayan Eegion. 

 rf 2 . Fore wing : costa arched ; apex produced, rounded ; 



