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young pai'ts ; sometimes on leaves too when the eggs happens to be 

 laid on a young leaf — it is always a young one, nevei" old. There is 

 nothing at all unusual in the behaviour of the larva and it is but 

 sparingly attended by ants. The foodplant is Ouc/enia dalbergioides ; 

 but also other species of Leciuminosece. Ougenia is a large tree locally 

 in Kanara but, elsewhere, it is a medium sized one, called Tivas 

 in Mahratti. It flowers profusely when leafless in the month ot 

 March or April and is then a delicate rose-white mass of small, 

 crowded, sweetly smelling bloesom. The butterfly is a strong flier, 

 often rising high into the air and, possibl}^, going long distances at 

 a time. It is fond of sunlight and greed}^ of the nectar of flowers 

 for it seems to do little else but visit them in quest of food ; it may 

 also, often, be seen sitting on damp places on the ground sucking 

 up the moisture. It is found all over India, Burma and Ceylon, 

 in the Andamans, Nicobars and all through the Malayan Subregion 

 extending to Australia and the South Sea Islands. Ic varies a 

 good deal in size, chiefly because of the variety of plants the larva 

 feeds on because, in many cases, it has been noticed, there is not 

 enough food in the way of young parts to satisfy its hunger and 

 it has to starve more or less in the last stage of growth. Especially 

 must this be the case where the plant chosen happens to be a small 

 vetch, the young parts of which are sometimes very scanty at 

 certain times of the year. On the whole, however, there is little 

 variation in the general patterns of the underside of the wing 

 although there may be some in the tone : the subcostal spot in 

 interspace 10 on the underside of the fore wing is never present 

 and this serves to distinguish the species from G. straba with 

 which it could otherwise easily be confused. The insect has been 

 bred upon Phaseohts trilohus hj Mr. de Niceville in Calcutta and 

 on Cylista scariosa in Kanara in Bombay. 



The figures of the male and female 50 and 50a. on Plate G are 

 not good as regard the colouring. The upperside of the male should 

 be pale purple or violet. The blue on the uppersides of the 

 female wings at the bases should be light and not dark ; the under- 

 side should be light, a silvery-grey or, sometimes, with a slight 

 pinkish or brownish shade. 



154. Catochrysops pandava, Horsfield. — Wet-season brood. — Male. Upper- 

 side: laveuder-blue. Fore wing: costa narrowly, terminal margin more 

 broadly fuscous brown, the latter with in addition an anteciliary, black line : 

 cilia light brown transversely traversed close to, but not at, their bases by a 

 dark brown line. Hind wing : costa narrowly fuscous brown : a subterminal 

 series of black spots outwardly edged or not by a white line : the spot in 

 interspace 2 the largest and inwardly crowned or not more or less broadly 

 with ochraceous yellow ; an anteciliary, black line and the cilia as on the 

 fore wing. Underside: greyish-brown. Fore and hind wings: the follow- 

 ing transverse darker brown markings on each wing, the markings edged on 

 the inner and outer sides with white lines — a short bar across the discocel- 

 lulars, a discal catenulated band of six spots, the posterior two elongated 



