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same colour, which ai'e placed conjointly in pairs between the nerviiles ; marj?inal spots as on 
fore wing, but more lunulato. Fringe of both wings alternately greyish. Underside brownish 
ochraceous. Fore wing with the marginal and submarginal markings as above, the macular 
fascia at end of cell subobsolcte and greyish ; the basal half of wing is pale castaiieous, with 
the costal ai'ea and cell marked as in male. Hind wing with the marginal and submarginal 
markings as above, and the centre crossed by a faint greyish fascia more or less corresponding 
to that on the wings of the male." (Distant, I. c.) 
" Larva purple-brown, head armed with two long erect branched spines, the segments with a 
dorsal row of three long branched red spines, and three lateral rows of spines. Pupa thick, 
purple-brown, blotched with black ; abdominal segments with stout pointed dorsal tubercles ; 
head obtuse, pointed in front, thorax angular at top." (Moore, I. c.) 
Occm's in Western China at Ni-tou in May ; Cliia-ting-fu, July ; Chia- 
kou-ho, August. Drury and Donovan figured the female of ff. holina under 
the name of P. jacintlia, and referring to this sex Mr. de Niceville says : — 
" The variations of it, which are casual and inconstant, are mainly confined 
to the greater or less prominence of the blue macular fascia on the upper- 
side of the fore wing and the greater or less prominence of the whitish sub- 
marginal band on the hind wing ; in one extreme consisting of small conical 
spots in pairs between the nervules, in the other extreme these spots are 
generally elongated, entirely filling the spaces between the veins, and 
coalescing with the discal spots towards the anal angle. On the underside 
the females in all cases appear to correspond with the larger form *, and not 
with the typical smaller form in style of markings." With regard to the 
distribution of the species in India, Mr. de Niceville remarks : " H. holina is 
in most parts of the country one of the commonest as well as one of the most 
beautiful of the Indian butterflies ; in the drier portions of Western Con- 
tinental India it is rare, but even there it may occasionally be found in 
gardens. In the moister regions, particularly in the warm valleys and 
submontane tracts, it abounds, and the flash of the brilliant purple as it opens 
and closes its wings while sunning itself on some flower or spray of foliage 
meets the eye at every turn." 
* Distinguished by the " paler and more uniform coloration of the under surface ; absence of 
pure white markings, those on the upper surface being irrorated with bluish, and those on the 
under surface with brown." (de NicevUle.) 
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