476 NYMPHALIDvE. 



dark spots and short transverse striae, and shaded in the cell, 

 on the middle of the costal margin, and on the middle of the 

 termen with diffuse brown. Antennas, head, thorax and ab- 

 domen dark brown ; beneath, palpi, thorax and abdomen greyish 

 brown. 



Exp. <$ $ 46-58 mm. (1-81-2-28"). 



Hob. The Himalayas, from Kulu to Sikhim ; Western India, 

 recorded from Bombay; Southern India; Ceylon; Assam; Burma; 

 Tenasserim ; the Malayan Subregion ; China. 



The larger varieties, with very broad orange markings on both 

 fore and hind wings, have been separated as sanguinalis. This is 

 chiefly a Himalayan and Eastern form. Var. rama, Moore, is the 

 smaller Southern and Ceylon form, with the orange markings much 

 narrower and restricted and the preapical double spots entirely 

 white, or white slightly suffused with yellow. Every gradation 

 between the two forms, however, can be found. Many specimens 

 are identical with typical forms from Java. 



Larva. " Colour dark green, sometimes with a brownish tinge, 

 with a thin dorsal light yellow line from segments 4 to 12 and a 

 narrow yellow supra-spiracular band from the head to the anal 

 end." {de Niceville.) 



Pupa. " The front of the pupa seen from above is absolutely 

 square, the head ending in a broad straight edge ; . . t . thorax 

 somewhat convex and highly carinated along the dorsal line . . . .; 

 wings slightly thickened at and behind the shoulder ; . . . . colour 

 light green with the tops of all the carinations yellow, with 

 a black speck on the abdominal peak ; the surface of the pupa 

 smooth, somewhat shiny." {de Niceville.) 



" Food-plant, Celtis tetranda, Eoxb. (Urticacece)." {de Niceville.) 



457. Libythea rohini, Marshall, J. A. S. B. 1880, p. 248 ^ ■ de N. 

 Butt, Ind. ii, 1886, p. 303, pi. 24, fig. 114$ ; Moore, Lep. Ind. v. 

 1901-1903, p. 59, pi. 394, tigs. 3, 3 a, $ . 

 Libythea libera, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, 1890, p. 207, 

 pi. D, tig. 6; Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 58, pi. 394, 

 tigs. 2,2 a, cJ . 



<$ $ . Upperside very dark glossy brown, bases of the wings 

 slightly paler. Fore wing with the following white spots : a 

 transverse spot filling the apex of the cell, a large discal sub- 

 quadrate spot, and three smaller spots in a curve preapicalby. 

 Hind wing : a white subcostal spot and a horizontal medial short 

 narrow white band, generally macular. Underside fore wing : 

 ground-colour brown, the costal margin, the apex, and the dorsal 

 margin more or less greyish white with minute transverse short 

 dark striae ; a pale clavate cellular streak above the median vein, 

 not reaching the white transverse spot at apex of cell ; all the 

 white spots as on the upperside, but larger and somewhat diffuse 

 at the edges ; the lower two of the preapical spots generally 

 touching. Hind wing : ground-colour pale lilacine-white closely 

 irrorated with transverse dark striae ; the white spot on the costal 



