250 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
yellow irregular band, decreasing posteriorly ; a submarginal row of small, yellow 
lunules, and a marginal row of small geminate spots, those at the anal angle being 
greenish-grey. Underside lilac-grey, of a more or less pale or darker tint, but 
dullest at the base, and purplish-tinted externally. Both wings with white trans- 
verse discal markings as on upperside, but each inwardly-edged by a black line; the 
basal area crossed by irregular black slender lines. Forewing also with three basal 
black spots in the cell, a submarginal row of ochreous-yellow spots with posteriorly- 
increasing black borders, and a marginal lower row of indistinct purplish-white 
lunules. Hindwing also with a discal more or less defined irregular row of black- 
edged purplish-white lunules, and a submarginal row of ochreous-yellow spots with 
blackish outer borders, followed by a marginal row of small, more or less ochreous- 
yellow or greenish-ochreous lunules surmounted by an indented black line and white 
speckles above, and broken lunate white spots below; the extreme margin and tails 
being blackish-edged. 
Female. Upperside as in the male, with the markings somewhat larger. 
Underside as in the male. 
Body above dark olive-brown ; collar, front, and palpi above black, spotted with 
white ; palpi, body beneath, and legs whitish ; fore tibiz brown above; antenne 
black ; eyes reddish. 
Expanse, ¢ 2,5 to 3,4, 2 3,% to 3,6, inches. 
CatErPILLAR.—Slug-shaped ; bluish-green; head armed with four reddish-tipt 
spinous fleshy vertical processes ; anal segment with two short depressed points; a 
small dorsal semicircle of white on seventh segment; lateral line dotted with pale 
yellow. Feeds on Tamarindus indica. 
Curysatis.—Cylindrically-ovate, smooth ; dorsum arched; head obtusely pointed. 
Hasitar.—Himalayas ; Oudh; H. and S. India; Ceylon; Burma. 
In specimens from the N.W. Himalayas, the undersides are the palest coloured, 
and also have the markings less prominently defined. In Eastern Indian and Burmese 
specimens the underside is darker, and the South Indian and Ceylonese examples are 
darkest of all, being of a purpurescent-brownish tint, with all the markings intensi- 
fied. The S. Indian specimens are identical with the Fabrician type. 
Disrrisution aND Hapits.—This butterfly has a wide range. In the Western 
Himalayas it ‘“‘has been taken in Chumba in March by Lieut.-Col. C. H. T. 
Marshall, and in Mundi in July and September by Mr. A. Graham Young” (Butt. _ 
Ind. 1. 280). The Rev. J. H. Hocking took it in “ Dharmsala in July, at sugar” 
(P. Z. 8. 1882, 238). Mr. W. Doherty found it in “ Rambagh, at the foot of the hills, 
Kumaon” (J. A. 8S. Beng. 1886, 124). In Oudh “it occurs in Lucknow” (Lang. 
Ann. N. H. 1864, 181), and “‘ at Fyzabad”’ (Butt. Ind. 11. 280). In the Eastern 
Himalayas “ stragglers have been taken in Sikkim at low elevations from May to 

