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side • setrment 2 has a lateral and a dorsal gold spot, there is one on each eye 

 and one on each side of each eye ; wings also marked with gold. L. 18mm. ; 

 B. 9mm. ; H, 9-5mm. 



Habits. — The habits as regards the laying of the egg, the life of the 

 larva and the pupation are the same as for the preceding species. 

 The species is common everywhere throughout its range, has a weak 

 fliorht though it remains long on the wing flying about somewhat 

 aimlessly, migrates with the others, frequents Crotalaria and is not 

 a frequent visitor of flower?. The foodplant of the larva is Tylophora 

 carnosa, D. ; also T. tenuis, Blume, and Cnjptolepis Buchanani, 

 Roem. and Sch., all Asclepiads. The distribution is India and 



Burma. 



6. Euploea coreta, Godart. — Male and female : npperside dark-brown, 

 somewhat broadly paler along outer margins with a row of largish white 

 spots in interspaces 1 — 7 followed by a low of smaller ones, two to each inter- 

 space, inside outer margin on forewing ; hindwing similar, the spots larger, 

 the inner row elongate and paired in interspaces lb, 1 — 3. Underside browner, 

 spots as above and a spot towards end of cell of forewing with complete series 

 of six spots between nervures immediately outside cell. The male has a pair 

 of broad parallel silky bands on upperside of forewing in interspace 1 ; in the 

 female their position is vaguely traceable. Exp. 92-96 mm. 



Larva. — The shape is the same as for Danais : there are paired tentacles on 

 segments 3, 4 and 12 which are longest on segment 3, shortest on 12, dull- 

 indigo in colour and straight. These tentacles are much longer than in E. core, 

 the next species. The head is round, smooth, shiny, black with a marginal 

 white band and another down each side of the triangular clypeus not continued 

 above its apex and a white labrum. Surface of body smooth and greasy look- 

 ing. Spiracles oval, black, shiny, of ordinary size. The colour of the body 

 varies somewhat in shade but is ordinarily a light violet-green above, chocolate- 

 green on the belly ; segments 3 and 4 are always slightly yellowish dorsally ; a 

 yellow spiracular line divides the belly from the dorsum with a slight yellow 

 shade around the spiracles ; the extreme base of all three pairs of tentacles is 

 yellow ; segment 2 is light yellow with a shiny black subdorsal spot ; the anal 

 flap is the same colour with a large dorsal shiny black patch covering three- 

 fourths of the segment ; all the legs shiny black. L. o9 mm. ; B. 6 mm. ; L. of 

 tentacles of segment 3 : 14 mm. ; of segment 4 : 9 mm. ; of segment 12 : G mm. 



Pupa. — The pupa of Euplcca differs from that of Danais, in that the dorsal 

 line from thorax to segment 7 as well as the lateral are both concavely curved 

 and there is no sign of a ridge along centre of segment 7 ; it is dumpier, 

 smoother and more compact altogether. That of E. core is compact, the abdo- 

 men short and sub-hemispherical from segment 7 to end, the ventrum slightly 

 flattened ; the cremaster forms a stalk a little on the ventral side of pole of 

 hemisphere and is somewhat bent down; head square in front, rather high 



