130 JO UU'NAL, BOMBAY NATUHAL M^f. SOOIET Y, YoL XXVl. 



ndknii-oi \a,xv& is gteen With a. red-brown dorsal batid from end tO' •end 

 interrupted at front of segment 3 by a yellowish-white margin to that 

 segment which ends aind curves back broadly along the dorsal band in • the 

 dorao-lateral region ; segment 4 is also yellow in the dorso-lateral region ; 

 segment 6 is red-brown in that region with a thin line of yellow sub-dorsal - 

 ly aloing dorsal band ; each succeeding segment is whitish in that region 

 (owing to the white tubercles), there being a diagonal, indistinct, whito 

 stripe also in the lateral region ; there is a marginal, yellowish line niOrO or 

 less boi?dered with red-brown above somewhat broadly but often interrup- 

 tedly. The belly is flat and green. L: 10 mm. ; B: 3 mm. 



' Pupa. — The pupa is of the ordinary type of that of Castalius, &C. ; has 

 the thorax; very little humped, so that the dorsal constriction behind it is 

 little ; there is no lateral constriction ; the pupa is broadest aboiit 

 segment 8 and also highest there; segment 5^ is broadish, quite straight 

 as to front margin, curved back on sides towards thorax, with its dorsal 

 line in the same plane as that of front of thorax ; the head or face is 

 perpendicular to longitudinal axis of pupa ; the thoracic dorsal line ascends 

 gently to centre and then gently descends to hinder margin of the 

 segment, that margin being curved strongly towards segmsnt 4 with an 

 inclination to being pointed on dorsal line ; the angle between it and wings 

 is open and fairly deep, widely rounded ; the anal end is rounded, the 

 segments 13 and 14 being turned under ; the dorsal line of abdomen 

 rather convex. Surface of pupa shiny and coveted, with exception of 

 wings, with minute, erect, yellowish hairs, fairly densely. Spiracles of 

 segment 2 long, narrow ovals, yellowish ; others, small roundish, whitish. 

 Colour light brown-pink speckled and blotched all over rather strongly 

 as a rule, the markings having a tendency to run into a dorsal and lateral 

 band. L: n9arly 8 mm. ; B. 3'5 mm. 



Habits. — The eggs are laid singly and, as a rule, on the floWer- 

 heads when in bud ; more rarely in the fully expanded heads ; 

 sometimes, even, on the flower-stalks. The larva, on emerging, 

 eats into a bud ; later on, when more grown, it lives on the outside 

 of a bud, eating the inside, for which purpose, presumably, it has 

 been supplied with its long neck ; it never seems to eat leaves. The 

 pupation takes place in a crevice in the bark of the tree ; rarely 

 among the buds ; the attachment is by the tail and a bodj'- band 

 as usual. Some of the larvae are plain green in colour, others are as 

 the one above described ; others again have the red-brown greatly 

 extended, covering nearly all the green colour, but never the yellow 

 of the dorsa of segments 3, 4 and G-10, nor the subspiracular, yellow, 

 band which is always present though it is, in the very red-brown 

 specimens, often narrow and interrupted. The pupae are nearly 

 quite plain when they belong to the plain green caterpillars. The 

 larva is, seemingly, but rarely attended by ants. 



Numbers of the butterflies were bred in Karachi in August 1904 

 when the Albizzia lebhelc was in full bloom. Males were flying 

 about in numbers in the shade of these trees everywhere as also round 

 the tops— looking for females of course — in the hottest of suns. 

 They fly strongly and for a long time in much the same manner as 

 Oatochrysops 'pandava or some of the Nacaduha species. They some- 

 times light on the ground where there is little doubt many ^lipfef are 



