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larger; costa and abdominal border white. Body with a dorsal and lateral black 
stripe edged with white or pale ochreous ; palpi above clothed with black and 
ochreons hairs, beneath ochreous-white; legs white ; antennas black, annulated with 
white beneath. 
Expanse, 8 ? 2 to 2^ inches. 
Larva. — 44 Slender, cylindrical, smooth ; with two long, curved, divergent 
filaments or soft horns on the head, a single stouter sword-shaped one on the 
back of the fifth or sixth segment, curved backwards and serrated on its inner edge, 
and another on the last segment, curved forwards and serrated on its outer edge. 
Colour fine reddish-brown, with a broad green band on the side from the fifth 
to the last segment. Feeds on the leaves of Ficus indiea .” 
Pupa. — “ Suspended by the tail; very much compressed; with a dorsal ridge 
from head to tail, high and obtusely pointed in the middle; palpi cases united and 
produced into a long somewhat recurved snout; colour brown, with fine dark 
striae.” 
Egg.— ce High-domed shape, or almost conical, with an aperture at the top fitted 
with a deeply dentate flat cap, like a cogged wheel ” ( Davidson , lx . 351). 
Habitat. —W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Cachar; Khasias; Bombay; 
S. India; Burma ; Tenasserim; W. China; Hainan; Formosa; Japan. 
Distribution. —We possess examples of both the white and pale ochreous forms 
from the Western Himalayas, taken at Kasauli, Simla, and Masuri, a white male 
from Nepal, taken by the late Glen. Gr. Bam say, both sexes from Sikkim, Assam, and 
the Khasias ; others from S. India, taken in the Wynaad and Nilgiris, a pale 
ochreous female from Coorg, a white male from Mynal, Travancore, taken in March, 
at 2000 feet elevation ; white males from Bhamo, taken in November by Signor L. 
Fea, from Upper Burma, by Col. C. H. E. Adamsom, a male from Moolai, Upper 
Tenasserim, and white males from W. China and Japan. Mr. J. H. Leech has both 
sexes of the white and ochreous forms from Moupin, and Omeishan, W. China, and 
a white female from the Loochoo Islands. It is also recorded from Hainan (P. Z. S. 
1878, 698), and from Formosa (id. 1877, p. 813). The late Capt. B. Bayne Beed 
took it in Kashmir in 1872 (MS. Note), and Capt. H. B. Hellard also took it in 
u Kashmir in September” (MS. Notes). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon found it 44 very 
common in Masuri and in the interior, and it is not rare in the Doon. It flies all 
through the warm weather.’* Capt. A. M. Lang took it at 44 Kasauli in May, and at 
Kundloo from April to October” (MS. Notes). The Bev. J. H. Hocking records it 
from the Kangra Hills, 44 June to September, hybernates afterwards. Sits with open 
wings upon hanging leaves of Oak and Bhododendron ” (P. Z. S. 1882, 240). Mr. 
W. S. Atkinson records it from 44 Hills in Central India, Parisnath Hill, Sikkim, and 
Khasias” (MS. Notes). Col. C. Swinhoe records it as 64 common on the Khasia 
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