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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
oblique dark streaks, one to each segment; last segment prolonged and ending in 
two rough, triangular, slightly divergent horns. It has the habit of resting for 
hours with its chin strongly retracted, and its horns projecting forwards. The 
fourth eye [?] from above is very much larger than the others, and the head with 
its short ear-like horns looks very much like a cat’s. Before undergoing its meta¬ 
morphosis, the larva became in colour a clear transparent green, unmarked except 
by the black dots of the spiracles. Chrysalis green, smooth, its envelope transparent, 
shorter and thicker than the chrysalis of Melanitis, strongly constricted between 
the thorax and abdomen. The caterpillar feeds on various grasses, and is strictly 
nocturnal.” * ' 
Messrs. J. Davidson and B. H. Aitken, in their “ Notes on the Butterflies of the 
Bombay Presidency,” also give a description of the larva [presumably of visala] under 
their name of mineus, as follows :— 
cc Larva spindle-shaped; head larger than neck and surmounted with two short 
protuberances ; last segment elongated and ending in two fine points; colour some 
shade of brown with a lateral dark line, sometimes indistinct, formed by a chain of 
minute cruciform marks. This colour is assumed when the larva is ha]f-grown ; at 
first it is green with a black head. Pupa oval, without angle or irregularity of any 
kind, very like that of Melanitis, but proportionally thicker, light green with a 
pale line across the wing-cases. We got one specimen on Rice, in July, and a 
dozen the following June, from eggs laid by the unocellated form in captivity.” 
(Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 267.) 
CALYSISME STTBDITA. 
Wet-Season Brood (Plate 65, fig. 1, la, b, c, d, $ $ ). 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, with a 
very faint pale transverse discal narrow fascia, and distinctly paler marginal lines ; 
both most apparent in the female. Cilia cinereous-ochreous. Forewmg more 
rounded at the apex than in C. visala; with a large prominent median ocellus. Bind- 
wing with one, occasionally two, small slightly defined median ocelli. Underside 
dark greyish ochreous-brown or fuliginous-brown ; with a well-defined whitish 
transverse discal band, and marginal ochreous lines. Forewing with one small 
subapical ocellus and two conjoined lower median ocelli, the latter pair being 
disposed one between the middle and lower medians (which is the largest) and the 
other between the lower median and the submedian vein ; the lowest ocellus, i.e., that 
between the median and submedian, being small and always present in both sexes ; 
both the upper and lower series are separately encircled by a pale greyish-white 
outer line. In some specimens, but rarely, there is a minute more or less complete 
