m JOURXAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



colour is green, with more or less of a reddish tinge on the back at 

 the oi-d ancl 4 th segments « but young larvae show more brown than 

 ,11, .iitd therein ,]oul\tl".-s ;j gppd.dgal of variation. The pupa 

 is very "like that of Un; Inst, perhaps not so flat or, the imd«v- 

 snrfaco. 



From this species we learned a lesson on the importance of assum- 

 ing nothing in Natural History without absolute proof. Early in the 

 season of 1889 we made up our minds, from observation of Arhopata 

 i mantes, that its larva would be found on Te.rminalia panieulata, and 

 when, after a little search, Lycasnid larvae were found, it never 

 occurred to us to question what they were. They were A. amantes of 

 course. As every specimen we got pined and died, we remained in 

 this persuasion. Early in the following season fresh search was 

 made, many larvae were found, and though at first they died as 

 before, we eventually succeeded in getting the butterfly, and lo ! it 

 was centaurus. This was a surprise, for though centaurus frequents 

 the Terminalia trees as well as aniantes, it is a very imich. less common 

 species ; but in the meantime we had found that there were two 

 kinds of larva) on the tree, and the one having proved to be centaurus, 

 the other of course was aihahfes. But this other we could not rear : 

 it defied us. We tried it with ants and we tried it without ; we tried 

 it in a bottle and we tried it in the open air. Sooner or later, it pined 

 and died. At last we got one which was very nearly full grown, 

 and though it soon sickened and seemed on the point of dying, it 

 saved its life by becoming a pupa, and in due time forth came Zezias 

 chrysomaUus ! The emergence of a Terias hecabe would scarcely 

 have surprised us more. We still believe, however, that A. dhictAte's 

 feeds on Terminalia panieulata, and if we have another season in 

 Canara, will storm the nests of the red ants. Iu the innermost 

 penetralia of those we shall very likely find it. 



53. Virachola isocrates, Fabricius. 



Mr: de Nu-oville's descriptions of this and the next species, and 

 his accounts of their strange habits, are so full that we need not 

 waste space on them in these notes. We reared this species in Poona 

 many years ago, in the month of January or February, on the fruit 

 of the p.inrgamite. It is rare in ( Vmara, at least on the coast. 



