. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. 298 NYMPHALIDiE. MORPHINE. 2S2. DlSCOphora tulUa, Cramer, DISCOPHORA. /'(i//7/(?///Wi, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. i, pi. Ixxxi, rrg";. A. B (1775), female; Morpho tiiUla, Godart, Eijc. Mdth. vol. ix, p. 446, n. 19 (1819); Discophora ticllia, Moore, HorsfieM and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, vol i,
. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. 298 NYMPHALIDiE. MORPHINE. 2S2. DlSCOphora tulUa, Cramer, DISCOPHORA. /'(i//7/(?///Wi, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. i, pi. Ixxxi, rrg";. A. B (1775), female; Morpho tiiUla, Godart, Eijc. Mdth. vol. ix, p. 446, n. 19 (1819); Discophora ticllia, Moore, HorsfieM and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, vol i, p. 211, n. 431, pi. xij, figa. 15, larva ; (1857).. Habitat : Nortli-East India, Burma. Expanse : i, 3'3 to 3-8 ; ? , 3 5 to 3-9 inches. Description : Male : Upperside velvety fuliginous brown. Fora^jiiig with three nearly complete series of bluish, fulvous, or white spots, one submarginal, one near to it discal, and one more remote median. Ilindwing with the usual patch of plush-like scales, two obsolete submarginal series of ochraceous spots. Underside paler than in D. celinde, but more uniform in tone, the dark markings not so prominent. Female paler brown, sometimes with a fulvous tinge. Forewing with the three series of spots larger, white, the discal ones only irrorated with bluish, the median and discal spots between the discoidal nervules coalesced. Eiiukoing with three corresponding series of bright fulvous spots, and a series of indistinct fulvous spots on the outer margin. Underside as in the male, but much paler and duller in colour. Larva brown, thickly covered with brown hairs, with a paler dorsal line, and a dark brown spot on each side of it on each segment; the first three segments with a yellow ring. " Feeds on Bambnsa:' (1. c.) Pupa pale brown, smooth, boat-shaped, tapering to a fme point at the head. (Described from 's figures.) D. tidlia is commoner than D. cdinde, and has been taken in more localities, but the geographical range is t
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