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There is also an indentation from the border on the forewing from 

 the costa, marking the place where the discoidal cell ends. The 

 underside is not of so pura a yellow as in the male, and there is a 

 kind of sheen upon it. The caterpillar feeds on various leguminous 

 plants, the chief being the "amaltiis" (Cassia fistula), or the Indian 

 Laburnum, a beautiful tree with its long drooping clusters of pale 

 yellow flowers, followed in due time by long black pods like ebony 

 rulers, only not quite so straight. The first thing the caterpillars 

 do on changing their skins is to eat that cast-off garment. The 

 chrysalis is usually pale green, but assumes other colours when near 

 objects which it desires to resemble for the sake of concealment. 

 The antennas are darker than in the foregoing species. 



9J+> Catopsilia pyranthe, Linnaeus. The male of this butterfly is 

 white with a faint greenish tinge. It has the black border and tip 

 as described in the former species, and in addition there is a black 

 spot at the end of the discoidal cell in the forewing. Underneath it 

 resembles C. crocale, except that both wings have faint streaks of a 

 darker colour all over them. The female is the same, except that 

 the border to the wings on the upperside is deeper and extends 

 from the base of the forewing to the inner margin of the hindwing, 

 and there is as if an attempt had been made on the forewing to 

 begin an inner border, but the effort had ended half-way. The 

 underside has the same sheen as is found in C. crocale. The 

 caterpillar and chrysalis closely resemble those of the last species, 

 and it feeds also on leguminous plants. The antennas are dai'k. 



95. Catopsilia gnoma, Fabricius. The male of this butterfly is 

 white, the border and tip to the forewing being less broad than in 

 the species already described ; there is a black spot on the upperside 

 of the foi'ewing at the end of the cell. Underneath the coloration 

 and markings closely resemble those of C. pyratithe, but both wings 

 have a reddish spot at the end of the cell. The female looks like a 

 pale specimen of the female of C. catllla ; but the underside is marked all 

 over with streaks like 0. pyranihe. On the forewing (underside) 

 fhiere is an ocellus at the end of the cell, and on the hindwing 

 (underside) there are three silver-pupilled ocelli, the largest within 

 the cell, and one of the two others on the nervules defining the cell, 

 while the third is just beyond the cell. The last two ocelli are of 



