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tween. It is a beautiful pupa. We fouud this very abundantly all 

 the latter half of the monsoon on Melastoma malabathricum, a shrub 

 with large and handsome flowers, sometimes called Rhododendron. 



35. Euthalia evelina, Stoll. 

 We got one pupa of this. It was green, but had the dorsal trian- 

 gle edged with silver, and silver spots on the sides corresponding to 

 the gold markings of E. lepidea. 



36. Pyrantels cardui, Linnseus. 



This is too well known to need many words. An interesting 

 account of the habits of the larva in America, quoted by Marshall 

 and de Niceville, holds equally true in this country. We found it in 

 Canara in November, and have reared it often in Bombay and the 

 Deccan, always on the same thing, a kind of thistle of the genus 

 Blumea, with strongly aromatic leaves. 



37. KalUma horsfieldii, Kollar. 



Larva cylindrical, finely pubescent, armed with nine longitudinal 

 rows of fine branched spines ; head surmounted with two long straight 

 horns set with minute spines ; colour a beautiful golden brown, 

 spines red, head black. We found one specimen of this in July on 

 Karvee {Strobilanthus) , and after careful examination, discovering 

 nothing except its colour to distinguish it from H. bolina, decided 

 that it must be a larva of the large form which has been separated 

 under the name of H. avia. The likeness of the pupa to that of 

 bolina was still more exact, and the emergence of a beautiful Kallima 

 took us completely by surprise. 



Note, — We have called this K. horsfieldii because we are unable to believe in the 

 specific distinctness of K. uardi. 



38. Charares athamas, Drury. 



"Larva elongated, thickest in the middle, dark green; head large, 

 wide, flattened and surmounted by four spinous processes; last seg- 

 ment with short, naked points ; the segments with an oblique yellow- 

 ish white stripe, most prominent on the 7th, 9th, and 11th segments; 

 beneath these a lateral series of small white spots." This is Mr. 

 Moore's description and is good, but we have found different speci- 

 mens to vary very much in the distinctness and colour of the lateral 

 stripes: they are always present, but sometimes very faint indeed. 

 Another more importantpoint, which seems hitherto to have escaped 



