49i NEMEOEID^. 



Hab. The Himalayas, Chumba to Kuinaon, Nepal and Bhutan ; 

 TTmballa ; Fyzabad ; Malda ; Calcutta ; Ganjam ; Southern India 

 from below Poona and Bombay ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 China. 



Larva. " Flat, very broad in the middle, tapering to both ends, 

 clothed sparsely with short hairs ; head small, not enclosed in the 

 2nd segment ; colour light green." {Davidson <$f AitJcen.) 



Pupa. " Also clothed with hairs, and altogether so like the larva 

 that it is difficult to note exactly when the change takes place. 

 It is closely attached to a leaf by the tail and a girdle." {Davidson 

 Sf AitJcen.) 



Var. angulata, Moore, and var. abnormis, Moore, have been 

 described from Burma and Tenasserim. Typically, these differ 

 slightly from echerius as follows : — Upperside with no purple 

 gloss ; the discal and postdiscal transverse bands more clearly 

 defined, the former sometimes white anteriorly on the upperside, 

 generally white or whitish on the underside and extending across 

 both fore and hind wings ; underside of hind wing with an extra 

 subterminal black spot. The white markings and the extra black 

 spot are variable characters, and specimens intermediate between 

 typical echerius and typical angulata or ahnormis are not 

 uncommon. 



Race kausambi, Felder. — rf . Upperside : differs from echerius 

 Stoll ( = prunosa, Moore) as follows : — Ground-colour dark 

 maroon-brown, without any purple gloss ; fore wing, the discal 

 and postdiscal transverse pale bands merging anteriorly into a large 

 diffuse preapical pale or whitish patch ; hind wing very dark, the 

 black subterminal spots as in echerius but smaller, less prominent. 

 Underside : ground-colour similar to that on the upperside, markings 

 more clearly defined ; the discal and postdiscal transverse bands 

 on the fore wing dull white, diffuse and merging into a preapical 

 white patch anteriorly as on the upperside, inner and outer sub- 

 terminal incomplete white lines from tornal angle to vein 6. 

 Hind wing : a discal angulated white diffuse line, followed by a 

 subterminal series of seven spots narrowly encircled with white, 

 the spots in interspaces 3 and 4 of the same tint as the ground- 

 colour, the rest black. Antennae maroon-brown spotted with 

 white ; head, thorax and abdomen maroon-brown ; beneath some- 

 what paler. — 2 • Similar to the d , but the ground-colour brighter 

 and paler, the markings similar but very much broader both on the 

 upper and under sides. 



Exp. 6 2 46-51 mm. (1-72-2-01"). 



Hab. Within our limits, recorded from Mergui ; spread over 

 the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Race "bifasciata, Moore. — Differs from echerius as follows : — 

 <5 . Upperside uniform dark maroon-brown, not so dark as in the 

 wet-season forms of echerius, the transverse pale bands on both 

 wings broad and diffuse. Underside : ground-colour and markings 



