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LEPIDOPTERA IN DIG A. 
Chrysalis. —Head-piece obtusely pointed in front, thorax rounded, anterio- 
dorsum arched. 
Habits of Imago. —Under reference to B. Hordonia , Mr. J. Beetham (Journ. 
Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 280) says, “ The flight of the butterflies of this genus is 
peculiar. They seem to float and sail along, so that when on a level with the eye 
they disappear and re-appear; when settled on leaves as is their habit, they rest with 
wide expanded wings.” 
Habits and Food-plants of Larva. —According to the observations made by 
Mr. J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken in the U. Kanara District, Bombay, “The larva 
may be found on several species of Acacia , and has the curious habit of feeding by 
preference, not on green leaves, but on those which it has caused to wither. The trees 
on which it feeds have all bi-pinnate leaves with minute leaflets. It bites through 
one or two pinnae, which immediately droop and dry up, but are kept from falling by 
a few threads of silk with which the larva has taken the precaution to attach them 
to the central leaf-stalk. Thenceforth it lives among them and feeds entirely on 
them. The fore and underparts of the larva is of a dark greenish-brown, the rest is 
just that shade of greenish-grey which the leaves assume when withered, and is 
crossed by diagonal dark bands exactly representing the spaces between the leaflets 
—a most perfect disguise.” 
RAHINDA HORDONIA. 
Papilio Hordonia, Stoll, Cramer’s Pap. Exot. v. pi. 33, fig. 4, 4, D. (1791)— Wet-season. 
Nyvnphalis Hordonia, Godart, Eneycl. Meth. ix. p. 429 (1823). 
Neptis Hordonia , Westwood, Doubleday aud Hewitson, D. Lep. p. 271 (1851). Moore, Catal. Lep. 
Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 164 (1857) ; Proc. Zool'. Soc. 1858, p. 4. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, 
p. 150, pi. 17, fig. 13, g (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 78 (1886). 
Neptis plagiosa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 830— Dry-season. 
Wet-season brood (Plate 300, fig. 1, larva and pupa ; la, b, c, $ 9)* 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rich dark olivescent reddish-brown ; cilia slightly 
alternated with white. Forewing with a reddish-ochreous discoidal streak occupying 
the lower half of the cell and extending broadly beyond it to middle of the disc 
above and below the upper median veinlet, being also distinctly indented above 
opposite the discocellulars and less so at a short distance inward; a transverse 
discal excurved broken band composed of a sinuously formed subapical portion and 
a more regular lower portion; followed by an inner submarginal obscure grey 
undulated line, a more or less-defined darker orange-red slender middle submarginal 
line, and then by an outer marginal obscure grey line. Hindwing with a reddish- 
ochreous broad inner-discal band, its outer edge curving upward towards the costa, 
