im JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



rainy season form of this butterfly appeared in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London for 1887, pp. 451 — 453. It is a larger 

 and more deeply -coloured butterfly than the last, but has the same 

 habits. It has only been found about Pachmarhi, 3,500 feet, a 

 sanitarium in the Satpura Hills, where it is fairly abundant. 



Sub-Family — Elymniince. 



20. Elymnias undularis, Drury [256]. — This is also a shade-loving 

 insect with a feeble flight. The differences between the sexes is most 

 marked. The male is a dark brown insect with blue markings on 

 the forewing, and a reddish tinge on the hindwing, while the 

 female imitates Danais genutia, being of a reddish-brown colour with 

 black and white markings. The undersides of both sexes are the 

 same, or very nearly so. They are fond of settling on the stems of 

 plants and on tree trunks. 



■ Sub-Family — Acrceince. 



21. Telchinia violce, Fabricius [298]. — A small reddish-coloured 

 butterfly with black veins to its wings, like a miniature Danais 

 dorippus. It has a very tough and leathery body, and is difficult to 

 kill but easy to capture. It is very common in many places in the 

 Central Provinces, and seems to delight in bare, arid places, although 

 plentiful too in moister spots. 



The caterpillar is a blackish-coloured creature, and feeds on Cu- 

 curbitacece. The pupa is a yery pale pink with black marks. 



Sub-Family — Nymphalince . 



22. Ergolis merione, Cramer [299]. — A fairly common butterfly 

 in many parts. The caterpillar feeds on the castor-oil plant, and the 

 egg is covered with hairs or spines. The upperside of the imago is a 

 tawny-brown with delicate black markings, and the underside is 

 much darker, appearing quite black when the butterfly is flying. It 

 settles with its wings expanded, has a slow jerky flight, and is not 

 difficult to capture. It has a swollen costal nervure to the forewing. 



23. Ergolis ariadne, Linnaeus [301]. — This is very like the last, 

 but is smaller, and can be distinguished by its having the edges of 

 its wing more scallopped, or " pinked," as the ladies would say. It 

 has also two of the veins of the hindwing on the upperside white 



