THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 767 



alights on the shoots of the footplant or on bare twigs and stickS; 

 and sits with the wings closed, the little white tips to the long- 

 tails waving in the wind. It walks about cilso sometimes wdien 

 settled and is not ver}^ quick at rising. It basks low down, too, 

 in the sun, with the wings opened about a quarter. In Kanara 

 the}' are found from sea-level up to 2,500' but alwaj's in jungle 

 and they prefer the neighbourhood of the evergreens to the opener 

 deciduous t3^pe — the places where iSmilax abounds ; they have no 

 other food except Bioscorea which is, practically, the same thing. 

 The distribution has been given above under the genus but is 

 repeated here, taking it as a fact that only a single variable species 

 exists : — throughout India, Ceylon, the Andamans and Nicobars, 

 Burma, and throughout the Malay Peninsula and Islands. 



The figure of the butterfly on Plate H, numbered 55 is, on the 

 whole, rather good except that the tail-points are not black and 

 white enough and the underside not bright enough. 



35. Genus Deudorix. 



The eyes are hairy ; the body robust ; the palpi straight, the second 

 joint reaching beyond the head by one-third its length, and 

 thinning upwards, smoothly scaled, the third joint very slender about 

 one-fourth the second in the male, longer in the female ; le^s scaly, 

 femora haired below ; antennte longer than half the costa, club evenly- 

 formed. Deudorix epijarhas is the type species and the one that is dealt 

 with here. In all its ways it is very closely allied to Viraclwla and has 

 nothing to do at all with Eapala. The shape of the wings, the style of 

 marking on the underside, the larva and its habit of feeding on the 

 interior of fruits, the pupse — all are those of Tirachola. The larvte of this, 

 Virachola and Bindahara are extremely like each other and rather difficult 

 to separate. There are supposed, at the present day, to be four species 

 of Deudorix in the Indian region. The genus exists in every part of India 

 except in the desert tracts and very high altitudes ; in Ceylon, the 

 Andamans and Nicobars ; Burma, Malay Peninsula and across to Celebes. 

 Indeed that is the distribution of the single species epijarbas. 



190. Deudorix epijarbas, Moore. — Male. Upperside: scarlet-red in colour. 

 Fore wing : with broad black, costal and outer marginal borders ; the 

 costal band has its inner margin somewhat curved, being limited by the 

 median vein, consequently it is broadest at the apex, its inner edge on the 

 outer margin is uneven, and at the hinder angle the black band is 

 continued for a short distance along the hinder margin ; the rest of the 

 hinder margin is narrowly suffused with black, and so is the submedian 

 vein. Hind wing : with the costa, base and abdominal area suffused with 

 blackish, the abd(miinal fold brown ; outer marginal line finely black : 

 anal lobe black with a small, red mark in it ; tail black, tipped with white, 

 the veins often more or less finely black. Antennte black, ringed with 

 white ; club with a red tip and with a white, streak on the underside below 

 it. Underside : greyish-brown, markings indicated by their white edges. 

 Fore wing : with a thick bar, with a pale-white line splitting it at the 

 end of the cell ; a discal, almost straight, rather broad band narrowing 

 gradually hindwards ; a submarginal series of thick, lunular marks, edged 

 outwardly with white, its lower end close to the Ipwor end of the discal 

 band. Hind wing : with a thick bar, with a pale-white line running 

 through it, at the end of the cell ; a discal series of seven conjoined spots 



