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the ventral edge along the dorsal margin of the wing suffused with whitish 

 grey ; a brown spot dorsally behind apex of thorax and a similar spot at 

 front margins of segments 10, 11 ; the larval band on the dorsa of 

 segments 7-9 white, suffused with light pinkish-brown. Sometimes, when 

 the pupa is formed in artificial conditions in a breeding cage or away from 

 green leaves, it is suffused all over with blackish or very dark grey, the 

 ventral margin of the dorsal margin of wings is broadly lighter as well as 

 the dorsal band of segments 7-9 except the little tubercles "and the dorsal, 

 hinder^part of segment 3, L : 9 mm ; B : 4 mm for a fat pupa ; 8 mm 

 and 3'o mm for a thin one. 



Habits. — The egg is laid as usual in the axil of a flower or leaf, 

 always of young flowers or leaves. The egg- larva eats flower- 

 buds and very tender leaves. When full-grown lives amongst flowers 

 or on the undersides of tender leaves. It is sluggish and never 

 Avanders very far for food if it can help it. The pupation 

 is effected on the upper surface of a leaf or on a perpendicular 

 stalk or wing, &c., and the head always points up. The tail only 

 is fixed but it is fixed very strongly and the pupa stands quite 

 free upon it. Some of the pup^e are thin and stand out at quite 

 an angle from a perpendicular surface (say, 15" which is a lot), 

 others are quite stout and then the head rests generally against the 

 pupating-surface or very nearly. In the larval stage there does not 

 seem to be any gland on organs on segment 12 and ants are 

 certainly not particularly attracted by either the caterpillar or 

 chrysalis. When the pupa is touched it gives vent to a little 

 knocking noise ; even, sometimes, when blown upon. This noise 

 must be produced by some action in the joints of the segments 

 8-11 because the pupas that stand quite free, not touching with 

 their heads, omit it. The larv^a is of rapid growth and the butter- 

 fly emerges after about a week from pupation, 



Eatinda amor is one of the prettiest little insects to be found and 

 it is one of the commonest in the jungles of the Bombay Presidency. 

 It would be hard to beat it for delicacy of build and neatness of co- 

 louring : the little waving tails and brightly varied pattern of the 

 undersides impart to it an air of distinction among its fellows- -per- 

 haps because it is so plentiful and always, so to speak, on view. It 

 never or hardly ever goes to flowers or water. It flutters daintily 

 about the rosy-vermillion flowers of Txora coccinea b}^ the sides of 

 water -courses and the edges of paths in the half-shadeof the jungles: 

 or sits, expectant, on the end of a leaf in a patch of sunlight, basking 

 with its wings half-open ; or flies about amongst the low bushes on 

 business bent; or rests, exposing the speckled glorj'-ofits underside, 

 on the green foliage of some favoured shrub everywhere it exists. 

 And it is limited in its range, for it is found only in Southern India 

 and Ceylon, Assam and Orissa, The foodplants aie various and 

 the larva has been found on the following : — Ixora, Hopea, Croton, 

 Blachia, LorantJms, Slchleichera, 'Eugenia, Gareya belonging to the 



