274 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



branched spines : a single pair of longer and stouter spines on the 

 head. Colour very dark, rich brown ; head light brown. Pupa dark, 

 earthy brown, mottled with a lighter shade ; somewhat angular about 

 the head and thorax ; abdominal segments armed with dorsal rows 

 of short, sharp tubercles. 



We have reared this in Guzerat in October and in Karwar during 

 July and August. They were generally found on the ground, so the 

 food plant was not ascertained ; but they fed readily on a minute 

 weed called by botanists Elatostemma cuneatum, and some ate, while 

 others refused, Portulacca oleracea, the ordinary food of the next 

 species. All we reared were of the small dark form. The large 

 form (avia or jacintha) was common enough, but we did not get it 

 from larvae. 



28. Hipolyninas misippus, Linnseus. 



Not a specimen of this was seen in Karwar until September, when 

 it suddenly became very common ; but we got no larvae. In Bombay 

 and the Deccan we have often found it at the end of the rains on 

 Portulacca oleracea, commonly cultivated as a pot herb by natives, and 

 known, of course, as Bhajee. 



29. Parthenos wrens, Moore. Plate B, Figs. 3, 2>a. 

 The following description by Moore of the larva of the nearly 

 allied P. cyaneus of Ceylon will answer for the form of this species : — 

 " Cylindrical, head and anal segment spined, other segments slightly 

 hairy, third to twelfth segments armed with branched spines, which 

 are longest on third, fourth, eleventh, and twelfth segments." For 

 the colour we may refer readers to the beautiful drawing by Mrs. 

 Blathwaite. We got only a few of these in September and October, 

 and had difficulty in rearing them owing to the scarcity, in the 

 vicinity of Karwar, of its food, a creeping plant with large, thick, 

 elliptic leaves. The pupa is boat-shaped and of a uniform fine brown 

 colour, suspended perpendicularly. 



30. Limenitis procris, Cramer. 



We found this from July to October on Mussoenda frondosa, a 



plant easily recognisable by the white leaves at the ends of the 



flowering branches, which, make it a most conspicuous ornament of 



the jungles. Of all the larva? we reared this is in every respect one 



