478 NEMEOBIDyE. 



filling the interspace between the first and third median nervules. 

 Hind wing with no violet gloss at the base, otherwise as in the 

 male. Underside : fore wing with the cell orange but outwardly 

 terminated by a large white spot ; the other spots as on the 

 upperside. Hind wing as in the male, but all the markings more 

 obscure." (de Niceville.) 



Exp. S 2 61 mni. (2*4"). 



Hah. Tenasserim. 



459. Libythea hauxwelli, Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 61, pi. 394, 



fig-s. 5, 5 a, <3 . 



rf . Upperside : fore wing a beautiful iridescent pale violet, the 

 costal margin, apex, and terminal margin pale brown, the dull 

 white discal and preapical spots of the underside showing faintly 

 through by transparency. Hind wing pale brown, the cell and 

 bases of interspaces 4, 5 and 6 pale iridescent violet ; beyond the 

 violet there is a very obscure series of pale discal marks, only 

 indicating the usual horizontal band. Underside as in L. alompra 

 but much paler ; the spot in cell, the discal and preapical spots 

 dull white, obscure. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dull 

 brown ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen greyish brown. 



Exp. 6 49 mm. (1'9"). 



Hah. Tenasserim. 



Family NEMEOBIME. 



Egg. "Not so high as wide, smooth, granulate or prickly, 

 neither reticulate nor radiate, in the few genera examined by me." 

 (Doherty.) 



Larva. According to Sharp, " neither the larvae nor the pupa3 

 present any well-marked characteristic feature, but exhibit con- 

 siderable variety." So far as the Indian forms of this family are 

 concerned, the larvae and pupae of only two of the forms have been 

 described and figured. The former is oniseiform, broadest in the 

 middle, attenuated at each end, covered with short erect hairs. 



Pupa. Short, either slightly or not angulated or fusiform, flattened 

 anteriorly; head bifid, or truncately rounded in front; recumbent, 

 attached to a leaf by the tail and a median girdle (teste Moore, 

 Davidson Sf Aitken). 



Imago. Mostly of small size. Wings variable in shape. Eore 

 wing generally short and broad ; cell broad, closed ; veins 1-12 

 present, point of origin of vein 10 variable, from upper apex of 

 cell or free. Hind wing in some of the Indian forms produced at 

 the tornus, lobed, and in a few with a filamentous short tail as in 

 many of the Lycamidce. In some others dentate or tailed at apex 

 of vein 4, the termen more or less emarginate above the produced 

 portion ; cell closed ; veins 1 «-8 present, veins 6 and 7 very often 



