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LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 
Extreme Dry-season Brood = interruptus (Figs, le, If, lg, £). 
Male and Female. Upperside white. Forewing with a broad black band, that 
commences at the base, runs along the costa, in the middle of which there is a slight 
excavation, runs round the apex and outer margin and curves with a square ending 
a little inwards and a small upward streak at the angle. Hindwing with a little black 
at the base, a somewhat narrow, outer marginal black border, all the rest of both 
wings pure white. Underside with the markings very small, the streak in the middle 
of the abdominal margin of hind wing absent, as also is the lower discal spot; the 
sub-terminal lunules very much constricted. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 X V inches. 
Larva. —Feeds on the tender leaves of the “ chorna,” Zizyphus rugosa ; pale green, 
of the usual woodlouse form, with the head concealed under the second segment. 
The whole body is more or less pubescent, and there is a fringe of longer hairs on each 
side; it may be known from the larva of C. ethion by having two green bands on the 
back instead of one. 
Pupa. —Short and stout, constricted between the thorax and abdomen, clothed 
with short hair, closely attached by tail and band to any convenient surface ; colour 
ochreous mottled with brown (Davidson and Aitken). 
Habitat. —Sikkim, Assam, Western and Southern India, Burma, Ceylon. 
Distribution. —Recorded by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Manders from the 
Shan States, by Davidson from Karwar, by Betham from the Central Provinces, by 
Watson from Chin Lushai, by Aitken from Salsette and Matheran, by de Rhe-Philipe 
from the Konkan; it is in the B. M. from Mysore, Nilgiris (Hewitson s type), Ceylon 
(Moore’s type), Calcutta, Sikkim, Maldah, Maulmein, Tilin Yaw; and many examples 
in our collection from the Khasia Hills. 
ALLIED INDO-MALAYAN SPECIES. 
Castalius ilissus, Danis ilissus, Felder, Wien, Ent. 'Mon. iii. p. 186 (1859). Lycsena ilissus, Felder, 
Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. pi. 33, figs. 25, 26 (1865). Habitat, Celebes. 
Castalius rhode, Lycsena rhode, Hopffer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 27. Synonym , Castalius roxus, var. 
celebensis, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 96. Habitat, Celebes. 
Castalius argola, Lycsena argola, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. v. (Lycsena), pi. i. fig. 7, $ (1876). Semper, 
Reise, Philipp, v. p. 188 (1890). Habitat, Philippines. 
Castalius angustior, Castalius roxus, var. angustior, Staudinger, Lep. Palawan, p. 95 (1889). Semper, 
l.o. p. 189. Habitat, Philippines. 
Castalius ulysses, Staudinger, l.c. pi. i. fig. 5, $. Semper, l.c. p. 188. Habitat, Philippines. 
Castalius morosi, Semper, l.c. p. 187, pi. 33, fig. 14, $ (1890). Habitat, Philippines. 
Castalius austini, Heron, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1894, p. 193. Habitat, Damma Island. 
Castalius ulyssides, Grose-Smith, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 511 (1895). Habitat, Celebes. 
