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ring and outer black ring placed between and extending over tbe lower subcostal 
and radial, this ocellus being either simply round and perfect, or the outer red and 
black ring encompassing a smaller upper blue-centred black spot, and sometimes also 
a still smaller lower spot; a small obscure brown ocellated spot is also generally 
present between the lower median veinlets ; two short indistinct black lines at end 
of the cell, and two outer marginal black lunular lines outwardly-bordered by pale 
ochreous lines. Underside. Both wings (in the wet-season form) brownish-ocbreous; 
crossed by pale yellowish-ochreous basal, discal, and marginal sinuous fascia©, the 
forewing having the two ocelli as on upperside, but less defined, and the hindwing 
the two ocelli either very small, and of equal size, or both the latter are large and the 
upper one duplex. In the dry-season form both wings are uniformly pale dull 
yellowish-ochreous or oehreous-red ; with paler-defined transverse markings, the 
lower ocellus only being present on the forewing, and a series of minute ocellate spots 
on the hindwing. Body and palpi above olive-brown, beneath and legs pale 
ochreous-white; antennae dark brown above, ochreous edged with white beneath. 
Expanse, S 1& to 2^, ? 2 x - 0 to 2f 0 inches. 
Laeva. — £C After first moult; ground-colour jet black, with four equidistant rows 
of conical jet-black spines which are finely branched ; abdomen pale brown-black ; 
legs black; head black, with a transverse yellow band behind ; stigmata white. 
After last moult. Length one inch, cylindrical and spiny ; lead-colour, minutely 
spotted with darker and whitish dots; dorsal line black as far as 1st and 2nd 
segments, and then replaced all the way by a row of black branched-spines ; 
also four rows of equidistant black longitudinally-placed spines; lateral line 
milky; abdomen and legs lead-colour, thoracic legs black ; head brown, strongly 
speckled with elevated black spots and having two little bundles of spiny hairs in 
front, and on centre a white triangular patch, shaded all round with black; anterior 
portion of first segment yellow-ochre; sides of segments transversely striated 
with dark lead-colour ; stigmata black. Habits. Lazy. Food-plant. —The thorny 
Barleria (Barleria prionitis). Changed to Pupa on the 28th Sept., 1860.” 
Pupa. — u Suspended; light brown, speckled with whitish and variegated with 
darker brown. Imago emerged on 5th Oct., 1860 ” (Capt. H. L. Chaumette, Luck¬ 
now, 1861. MS. Notes). 
Habitat. —“ India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Siam ; 
S. China ; Hong Kong ; Hainan ; Formosa; Philippines. 
Distribution, Habits, etc. —This is a widely-spread and common Indian species, 
occurring almost everywhere in the plains in the region of heavy rainfall, and 
extending into the Hills up to 7000 feet elevation. I possess two ‘sports,’ both 
females, from Malda and Orissa, which have all the markings blurred and obliterated 
on both sides” (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 70). Mr. W. Doherty took it in 
