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brown ; true legs the same colour as head ; prolegs the colour of the belly. 

 The paired bodies under the skin on each side of dorsal line (in male only) are 

 yellowish. L. 30mm ; B. slightly over 3mm. 



Pujm.— The chrysalis is also very like that of M. junonia though perhaps 

 not quite so " dumpy. " The constriction is perhaps a little less. Cremaster 

 truncated, triangular, longer than broad with a central dorsal and ventral 

 depressed line. Spiracles oval, light in colour ; of segment 2, linear. Surface 

 minutely and irregularly rugose with a yellow subdorsal, rounded tubercle on 

 segments 5-9, a black spot above spiracle on segments 9-11. The colour is 

 grass-green with the cremaster red. L, 13mm.; B. 6mm. 



Egg. — Dome-shaped, constricted a good deal at base and therefore broadest 

 at one-fifth the height from base ; looks spherical at first sight. Surface shiny, 

 obsoletely celled. Colour green. H. 0'85mm., B. 0-8mm. 



Habits. — The egg is laid either on the underside or upperside of 

 a blade of grass, on a stalk, on a dried root, on the ground close by 

 anywhere ; very often four and five being laid together. The little 

 larva which is at first green with a reddish dorsal line and red tail- 

 points and black head, lives on the blade or on the stalk. After 

 growing a bit the larva rests on a stalk with its head turned round 

 on its side, holding on by the prolegs. Pupates low down near the 

 ground on a leaf, ?talk, dead twig, &c., the pupa hanging free though 

 firmly fixed by the tail. The butterfly is the commonest of the genus 

 and exists in the Central Provinces southwards to Travancore. It 

 may be seen fluttering about the rice-fields around Bombay in the 

 monsoon and extends into the hills and jungles. 



13- Mycalesis perseoldes, il/oo?-e.— Male and female closely resemble M. 

 polydecta. The disposition of the ocelli on the underside separates it from 

 perseus; horn polydecta it differs in the male sex- mark on the underside of 

 forewing being longer, broader and brown in colour. Exp, 44-56mm. 



Habits. A variety of this, according to Col. Bingham, comes from 



Mysore in South India. He says the specimens, all males, belong to 

 the dry-season form ; that they are uniformly smaller than typical 

 perseoides and differ on the upperside of the forewing in the very 

 broad pale iris surrounding the median ocellus and, on the underside 

 of the same wing, in the margin of the darker basal portion of the 

 wing being prominently concave just above the dorsal margin. The 

 male sex-mark on the underside of the forewing is larger than that of 

 polydecta but resembles it in colour. The transformations of the 

 species are not known. The typical form comes from Burma and 

 Tenasserim. 



