COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 471 



2nd atage. — Head black as in Jast. Body yellow with lateral row of black 

 spots ; bases of the legs red ; hairs longer even than in the Ist stage, of the 

 same colour. • 



Sr.l stage. — Head black. A broad dorsal yellow band with dark central line, 

 flanked by a dorso-lateral black baud ; colour yellow-grey en dorsum changing 

 to grey on sides ; a black lateral spot on each segment 6-12 ; base of legs red. 

 Body covered with long, light, fine hairs, more or less erect all over, longest on 

 dorsum. 



4th stage. — The head is black with the clypeus white and a white patch on 

 the vertex of each lobe ; otherwise everything the same as in the last stage. 



5th stage. — Head pear-shaped, ?' e., narrower at vertex than at base, as bioad 

 as hi'jh, thick, covered with long hairs of different lengths except the clypeus 

 which is naked, all growing perpendicular to the surface which is smooth and 

 dull ; colour of head black, spotted finely with yellow with a large light brown 

 patch on vertex of each lobe ; clypeus yellow-brown bordered narrowly with 

 black and, again, with white outside that broadly ; lower part of face light- 

 brown. Body cylindrical in shape, broadest and highest slightly at middle, 

 segment 2 narrower a good deal than the head ; the last segment rounded at 

 extremity, in a plane nearly perpendicular to longitudinal axis of larva, ending 

 in two short, strong, conical, widely and squarely separated, divergent points, 

 light yellow in colour and moderately densely set with light-coloured hairs. 

 Spii'acles rather small, conspicuous, longly oval, white, bordered thinly black. 

 Surface of body dull, smooth except for a clothing of moderately sparse, 

 longish, reddish-yellow hairs with some very long dark-brown white-tipped 

 hairs to each segment ; all haiis erect, most numerous at the two extremities of 

 body, especially at the 2 -4th segments. Colour of body bluish-grey suffused 

 with blackish dorsally, with a pure white, broad dorsal band the whole length 

 of body, flanked on each segment by two more or less distinct marks on each 

 side on eaah segment ; there is a long lateral vermilion mark on each segm.ent 

 6-11 being parts of an interrupted lateral band, the parts between the vermilion 

 marks being indicated by light-yellow streaks ; a black speckling in spiracular 

 region, a black band above base of true lerjs ; a whitish band above base of 

 pseudo-legs ; all legs brown-red in colour, their bases densely haired. L. 

 59mm ; B. 9mm. 



Pupa (PI. I, fig. Sa). — Is the shape of that of Orsotriana mandala. Head 

 rather small, trapezoid in shape, running out evenly into two long, pointed, 

 conical, contiguous, transversely striated processes, directed straight forwards, 

 slightly downwards, often slightly separated at base and tip. Segment 2 in a 

 piece with head : broad ; the dorsal line in the same plane as that of head and 

 front slope of thorax ; broadening out to shoulders. Thorax slightly humped, 

 convex, slightly caiinated in dorsal line. Wings expanded evenly and in a 

 slight convex curve making the body broadest at segment 7 where it is also 

 highest ; the dorso-ventral edge of body along wings is sharp. Constriction 

 broad and shallow dorsally, nothing laterally. Abdomen strongly curved 

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