THE COMMOy BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. HI 



Hind wing : posteriorly from about the level of the middle of the cell 

 slightly suffused with blue from base outwards for about two-thirds the 

 length of the wing : a transverse, postdiscal, incomplete series of sagittate, 

 white spots pointing inwards ; followed by subterminal, transverse series 

 of round spots, the anterior three dark brown encircled with bluish white, 

 the tornal two jet-black, subequal, larger than the others, edged inwardly 

 with bright ochraceous, outwardly by very slender white lines ; finally, 

 a jet-black, slender anteciliary line. Cilia of both fore and hind wings 

 conspicuously white. Underside : ground-colour and markings as in the 

 male, tornal two black spot touched outwardly with metallic bluish-green 

 scaling. Antennse, head, thorax and abdomen similar to those of the male, 

 the shafts of the antennro conspicuously ringed with white. Expanee : 

 Male and female, 26-33 mm. 



E(/f/. — TuThnu-sfiaped, depressed in the middle of the top ; surface 

 covered with a network of fine, raised lines, dividing it up into many four 

 and tive-sided cells, very minute on top in centre, decreasing outwards and 

 downwards ; the lines more or less diagonal with a prominent, coarse- 

 topped excrescene or rising at each intersection, these risings hardly 

 existing in the middle of the upper surface. Colour, light green, nearly 

 white, the lines and risings pure white. B : 0*5 mm. 



Larva (PI. II., fig. '21) — Noratial. Segment 2 rather large, semi-circular, 

 hiding the small, shining black, round head with the labrum white ; 

 dorsal outline rising to segment 4, thence descending gently to the anal 

 extremity ; increasing in width to segment 5, thence to segment 12 

 ren.aining the same ; the anal segments flattened dorsally, the 14th 

 ending somewhat broadly round-truncate. I'^itrface covered with minute, 

 white star -topped, shortly-stemmed, thickened hairs (stars 5 and 6 

 pointed) ; a few scattered, erect, white hairs ; a subdorsal, central, 

 longer hair on each segment ; the dorsoventral margin fringed with 

 sparse, line, erect, long hairs, segments well marked by constrictions : 

 gland on segment 11 and organs on segment 12 small. Spiracles ovsl\, 

 black. Colour apple-green, the anal end tipped with black ; or dark rose, 

 with a subdorsal line on each segment yellow, running slightly diagonally 

 back and up, the two more widely separated at front margin than at 

 hinder margin, that is, the dorsum between them darker coloured than 

 the rest ; a subspiracular, yellow band which is narrow on segments o-9, 

 broad on segments 10-,14, sometimes also continued forwards to segment 2. 

 The colour may be grey or nearly black but the yellow lines are always 

 present. L : 12 ; B : 4 mm. 



Pupa (PI. II., fig. 21a). — Normal. Segment 2 more or less trapeze- 

 shaped, rounded in front, thorax slightly humped, rather short, anal end 

 rounded. Surface sparsely covered with minute, erect hairs, head with a 

 few longer, porrect ones. Spiracles black, oval. Colour green ; dorsal, 

 longitudinal line on segments 1, 2 and some faint lines on sid« s of head, 

 black ; a dorsal, longitudinal, dark green line on thorax to anal end ; 

 some black dots on the abdominal, dorsal line, a black spot near shoulder 

 and another just below it on wing. Or colour light rose with a patch on 

 segment 2 and thorax, a dark irregular, broad, dorsal, longitudinal line 

 the hole length of pupa, widening out into a smudge on segment 10 

 which is continued well down the sides ; a black spot on each shoulder 

 and the junction of the wing with the body on segment o. L : 8 mm.; 

 B : 4 mm. 



Habits. — The eggs are laid singly on the flowers and stalk of 

 flowers, generally in the axils. The yoiing larva feeds upon the 



