COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 009 



is confined to jnnnrlo country' unci hilly re<^ions and is ijlentil'ul in some 

 places on the Western Ghats in Bombay anil will probably he found 

 at !Mahablesh\var and IMatheran or in the Thana hills. The male 

 basks in shady j)laces, low down on bushes or higher np on trees, 

 sitting with wings well opened, but is restless and does not remain 

 long in one place and is quick of flight ; the female does not bask 

 but may be found fluttering about in thick places laying eggs; 

 neither of them go to flowers. Colonel Bingham considers A. camiha 

 to be a southern race of the northern and eastern. 1. jyarlsatis ; the 

 former inhabits Southern India and Ceylon. The food plant is Celiis 

 tetrandra, Roxb., of the family Urticaceoe. 



Ajmtura is represented in both hemispheres. 



39. Euripus consimilis, Westiv. — Male upperside : forewing black with 

 the following white streaks and spots : a long streak from base, outwardly 

 broadened and diffused in interspace 1 ; a short slender streak in cell 

 with a minute elongate spot below it ; a broad, short, very oblique 

 median band broadly interrupted in the middle ; an oblique short row of 

 slender paired streaks beyond in interspaces 3, 4, 5, followed by a more 

 complete postdiscal series of similar streaks from costa to interspace 2 ; 

 and a terminal row of small dots becoming obscure streaks towards apex. 

 Hind wing white, traversed by the black veins with the lermen anteriorly 

 narrowly, posteriorly broadly black, the broad portion traversed by a sub- 

 terminal series of four or five crimson spots and beyond by a terminal 

 row of white spots. Underside similar ; the markings broader, larger and 

 more clearly defined, the hindwing with a small patch and two spots of crimson 

 at base. Antennte black ; head, thorax, abdomen black above ; head, thorax 

 beneath, abdomen on sides and beneath marked with white. Female upperside: 

 forewing similar, the white streaks much broader, single, not paired. Hind- 

 wing similar also but the black on the terminal margin not at all or very slightly 

 widened posteriorly, entirely without the crimson spots : there is instead a 

 marked dilatation of the black bordering veins 2, 3, 4. Underside similar to the 

 upperside. Exp. 70-88 mm. 



Egg. — The shape is that of a dome, somewhat higher than broad, narrower 

 at absolute base than just above the same ; with 21 or 22, generally the former, 

 rather smooth, fine, transversely rounded ridges from base to near apex where 

 they lose themselves in the surface, becoming thin at the same time ; the inter- 

 spaces between these ridges are six times as broad as a ridge on the greatest 

 diameter of the egg and extremely finely rayed at right angles to the ridges. 

 The colour when laid is green, becoming reddish at top the day before exclu- 

 sion of larva, the red being the head of the caterpillar, then blackish all over 

 B : 1mm. ; H : only a little more. 



Larva. — The larva Ls very like that of Apatura iris or the English Purple. 



