COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 



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have black borders ; tlie wet-season forms of some are nearly com- 

 pletely suffused with black (vide fig. '6). 





y.^ 



Fig. a— Forelegs, « ^, b $ , of I, Uestla (Danalnae) ; H, Mycaietis {Satyriiue) ; III, 



ynthia (Nymphalinae) ;TV, Pareba {AcrminaB) ; Y , I.ibytliea ;yi, Abisara (Nemeobidae) ; 



Til, Papiiio (Pap/iZJo/udae), claws simple (^.tibiae with pad on inner side); VIII, Pierw 



(Pieridae), cUws bifid ; IX, Lampides (Lycaenida), $ tarsus imperfect with only one claw ; 



X, Tagiadcs (Ilesper'ddat)^ tibia with a medial as well as an apical pair of spurs. 



A word or two ou the use of the keys may be necessary. 

 When an insect is to be determined, the first thing is to fix the 

 family it belongs to by the above key. That done turn up the key 

 to the sub-families or genera composing that family ; after that pro- 

 ceed to the key to the species. To work any particular key look under 

 A, B, . . . until one of them fits the butterfly, then go to a, b, c, . . . 

 until one of these answers, then to a^, bi, c^, . , . , then to a2, bz, 

 c2, . . . , then a*^, bii, c^, . . . and so on until the species is arrived at. 



Family— NYMPHALID^. 



This family is divided into six subfamilies distinguished in the following key, 

 A. Disfioidal cell in fore and hindwing closed. 



