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the whole visible part of the body (dorsal half somites) are cover'ed 

 thickly with minute, erect, black, pointed hairs which are only visible 

 under the lens ; there is a fringe of comparativelv long, fine, white hairs 

 along the dorsoventral margin on segments 2, 13, 14 and some similar 

 ones along the sides of ventrum just below this line on the rest of the 

 body : all • erect ; the gland on segment 11 is transverse, mouth-shaped, 

 rather large, surrounded with black tubercles ; the organs on segment 12 

 are rather small protruding at intervals a white, cylindrical column with a 

 globular end covered with minute, short hairs. Spiracles circular, small 

 white with thin raised edges. Colour of larva is either green or rose. 

 One was green with a dorsal, lateral and subspiracular, broad line and in- 

 distinct, diagonal, similar markings between the dorsal and lateral lines ; 

 there is always a subspiracular, yellow line along the dorsoventral margin 

 as well a dark, pulsating, dorsal line — even when there are no reddish 

 markings ; ventrum and legs always green. L : 12 mm. ; B : 4*5 mm. 



Papa. — Normal. The head is bowed, the whole frons being nearly ventral ; 

 segment 2 with the dorsal line rising at 45° to longitudinal axis of body ; 

 a broad strip with waved hinder margin; the thorax with the anterior two- 

 thirds of its dorsal line in the same plane as that of segment 2, then 

 curving to become parallel to that axis at the hinder margin ; a slight dorsal 

 constriction behind thorax ; the hinder margin of thorax comes to a rounded 

 point in dorsal line running into segment 4, and the ends meet the wings in 

 a rounded, deep angle of 45° ; the thorax convex in the dorsal line, the 

 abdomen also ; the ventral line is straight ; the greatest breadth is at segment 

 7 ; the anal segment is rounded at extremity and turned under. Spira- 

 cles of segment 2 are small, flat, longly oval, light in colour; the others are 

 round and rather convex, small, light yellow in colour. Surface of the 

 pupa is quite smooth, except for some distant, extremely minute, erect 

 hairs, somewhat shining, the gland scar rather large, the segments plainly 

 marked. Colour is generally an olive-green with fuscous, irregular dorsal 

 and lateral lines ; the veins on the lighter-coloured wings dark-brown. 

 L : 8 mm. ; B : 4 mm. at segment 7 and 3 mm. at shoulders — from which it will 

 be evident that the pupa thins somewhat rapidly forwards from the middle ; 

 it is about the same height at the apex of the thorax that it is at the middle. 



Hahits. — The eggs are laid, always singly, on the young shoots 

 and on the young leaves which are often red. The youiig larva 

 eats its way out of the egg through the side and immediatelj^ pro- 

 ceeds to eat : ab first the leaf-cuticle on the underside — where the 

 egg is generally laid — and later on in more drastic fashion, as it 

 grows bigger, from the edge in irregular little triangles and 

 curves, the whole substance being consumed. Ants are always 

 found with these caterpillars and, as far as noticed, ave generally of 

 the genus Gremastogaster ; though others also attend. Mr. deNice- 

 ville noted Monomorium speculare and Prenolepes lovgicornis, the 

 former "a nastj vicious little insect, the latter a long legged, very 

 active^ quick-moving species which is very greedy of sugar and ia 

 common in bungalows. They are all species of small dimensions, 

 especially Monomorium. Colonel Bingham says that the butterfly 

 exists throughout Peninsular India south of the outer ranges of the 

 Himalayas, but not in desert tracts and that it is some^vhat local. 

 It probably will be found bo affect the better wooded parts of India 

 only and especially the regions of fairly heavy rainfall, avoiding the 



