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to the skin being clothed with minute bristles ; there are two long setose spines on 
the head, pointed forwards, and two caudal spines. The colour above is rosy-red, 
with a blue dorsal line and a white lateral line, below which the under parts are 
green. 55 
Chrysalis. — 44 Perpendicularly suspended; slender, and regular, except that the 
head-case is produced into a long beak formed of two thin processes like split straws. 
Colour whitish-brown, with faint stride of a darker shade. It has very much the look 
of a large grain of barley 55 (Davidson and Aitken, l. c.). 
Habitat. —South India : Ceylon. 
Distribution. —Messrs. Davidson and Aitken (Journ. Bombay, Nat. IPist. Soc. 
1890, 267) records it from Ivarwar, in Bombay, obtaining the larva, feeding on grass 
in September, the description of which we have here transcribed, and also repro¬ 
duced their figure of the larva and pupa on our Plate 58. Mr. G. P. Hampson (J. A. S. 
Beng. 1888, 848) obtained it on the Nilgiris, at 64 3000 feet, being common in the 
jungles at the northern base of the hills, and throughout the Wynad and Mysore 
forests. The wet-season form is found from June to September, when its place is 
taken by the dry-season brood. 55 There are examples of the wet-season brood in the 
British Museum from the Bhowani Valley, Malabar, and of the dry-season brood 
from Bandipore, Mysore, 3000 feet, taken in November. In Ceylon, Captain Hutchi¬ 
son (Lep. Ceylon, i. 23) says, of the wet-season form, it 44 frequents open ground at 
edges of forests; found in the plains and up to about 3000 feet, in the western and 
central provinces from May to September; flight slow and for short distances ; 
settling down among long grass and is easily captured. 55 Mr. E. E. Green obtained 
numerous examples of the wet-season form at Punduloya in the "Western Central 
division of Ceylon, in August and September. 
Genus CALYSISME. 
Calysisme, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 20 (1880); Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 161. 
Mycalesis (part), Hiibner, Yerz. bek. Sehmett. p. 55 (1816). Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. Diurn. 
Lep. p. 892 (1851). Herr Schaeffer, Prod. Lep. i. p. 62 (1865). Butler, Catal. Satyridae, Brit. 
Mus. p. 128. Kirby, Syn. Catal. Diurnal Lep. p. 87 (1871). 
Mycalesis (sect. B), Distant, Rbtopalocera Malayana, p. 50 (1882), 
Mycalesis ( Calysisme), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 114 (1883). 
Imago.— Wings short, broad. Forewing with the costa arched from the base, 
apex more or less acute in male, less so in the female, exterior margin very slightly 
oblique and curved, posterior angle more or less acute; costal, median, and sub¬ 
median vein swollen at the base ; second subcostal branch emitted immediately 
before end of the cell; the cell broad; discocellulars very concave, the radials from 
two angles in the upper near the subcostal. Hindwing bluntly oval; costa arched 
at the base; exterior margin convex, more or less dentate; first subcostal branch 
