134 NATURAL HISTORY. 



at Matheran in March, feeding on Glocliidion lanceolaticm, one of the 

 commonest trees on the hill. This species seems to lay its eggs by- 

 preference on the young shoots that come up from the roots, like .4. 

 phalanta. 



33. Eulhalia garvda. — I think this butterfly is less common in the 

 jungle than it is about human dwellings. It loves to bask on old 

 grey walls and. may be found, making itself happy in the dirtiest parts of 

 the native town. I am quite sure it prefers the liquids which it sips from 

 the roadside gutter to the nectar of any flower. The larva may be 

 found in the month of October, and no doubt later, on the mango tree. 

 I found one once on a rose bush, to which it had done some mischief. It 

 is a difficult larva to rear, sulking and refusing to feed. It eats only 

 at night, remaining motionless all day, and the interfacings of its light 

 green spines form such a perfect imitation of the venation of a leaf that 

 it must very easily escape detection. 



34. E. lubentiha. — This is not very rare on the hills, but seems 

 to keep to the tops of trees, basking in the sun. I have found it at 

 Matheran in December. 



■35. Sytnphcedra nais. — In structure this is said to be near to Eulha- 

 lia ; in habits it is a Junonia, or perhaps, I should rather say, a Pyrameis, 

 flying low and alighting generally on the ground, where it basks with 

 wings expanded. I have not met with it in Bombay, but it is not uncom- 

 mon at Uran, only five miles from Bombay, and may be found, I dare say, 

 throughout the low jungles of the Tanna district.. I think its chief season 

 is the close of the monsoon,- but I have found it in May. There is some 

 difference 'n the depth of colour in different specimens from the same region. 

 36. Hypolimnas misippus. — This is very common after the rains. The 

 larva feeds on Portulacca oleracea, wlich is a monsoon weed in Bombay. 

 I think Boisduval's enthusiasm carries him too far when he says that the 

 mimicry of D. chrysippus by this species extends even to their larvae, which 

 at first sight have a superficial resemblance. This is a spiny larva of the 

 Junoniit type, and does not need to mimic anything, because nothing is 

 under temptation to eat it. Females of the dorippus type are not rare, and 

 there is one in the Society's collection. 



37. Hypolimnas aoia. — When the first showers of the monsoon have 

 fallen in June, a large number of the females of this butterfly appear, 

 without a single male being visible. Two or three months later, males 

 appear in great abundance in some places, followed after an interval by 

 females. I noticed this particularly in 1878 at Uran, where the low 

 jungle on the hill s'des literally swarmed with this species, and I have at 

 other times, without noting dates so precisely, found one sex abundant 

 without the other. In Bombay and Poona this species is common abcut 



