COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF J.\ DIA. '<^b 



everj'where in tlu* jungle-clad hills from sea-level upwards. The 

 distribution is said to lie Ccntir^rtal India geneially, from the 

 Himalayas to Travancore in the hills, avoiding tl e hot dry plains 

 of Northern and Central India ; Assam, Burma, IVnasserim, extend- 

 ing to China and Japan. The food-plants of the laiva are certain 

 fitr-trees; those upon which it has been found are Ficus reliy/osa, 

 Linn., the Asvatli or Pipal and Fictis henf/ulen.sis, Linn , the ccmmon 

 Banyan or Wad, both trees distributed throughout Lidia and well 

 known to everybody. There aie three other species of Cyre lis known 

 to the Indian Fauna and others in the Austro-Malayan region and 

 Africa. 



52. Junonia iphita, Cramer (Plate A, fig. G).— Male and fdrale vjperside 

 brown of varying depths of colour. Foiewing : -with one 1 air < 1 M.llatal and 

 one pair of apical, tiansveise, sinuous fasciae, the outeimctt dtfiniig the dis- 

 cocellulars ; a short, broad, oblique fascia beyond tv vein 4, its inner margin 

 diffuse, ilB outer sinuous, but shavpJy dt fin( d ; below vein 4, a sini ous Iransveise 

 fainter fascia, followed by a discal blackish fascia, very bit ad and difuse; 

 below costa, bordered by a row of faint oci Hi and a posidifcal tnd buLleiminal 

 similar fasciae following the contour of the ieinicn. Hincwir}. with a slender 

 blackish loop near the apex of cellular area ;a broad inwardlj difiu&^e, outwardly 

 well defined, short discal fascia in cintui nation of the tne tn the foievirg ; a 

 series of postdiscal somewhat ochraceous ocelli with black pupils minutely 

 centered with white ; postdiscal and s-ubteiminal tioad lines as on the fore- 

 wing. Umler.side brown with very broad darker brown fasciae (he inlerspaces 

 between the markings irrnrated with puiplish silveiy scales. Foiewiig with 

 two sinuous fascia) on the basal half followed by a discal fascia, very broad 

 at the costal margin and decreasing in width to the do) sum, bearing on 

 its outer border a row of obscure ocelli. This is succeeded by a zigzag 

 dark line and sinuous subterminal and tejminal lines ; apex and tornal 

 area sutfu.sed with purplish silvery. Hindwing : two irrigular daik brown, 

 very broad, curved ^ho^t fasciae near the base ; a slrai{.ht. transveise, 

 prominent, narrow ochreous-brown ditcal band defined oulwaidly by a black 

 line ; a transverse postdiscal dark-brown fascia, widest in the niiddle and 

 bearing outwardly a curved low cf ochrcous-brown, white-centied ocelli, 

 followed by a Eig-zag daik line in continuation of that on the forewing : a 

 snbtbiminal somewhat difluse dark fascia and a teiminal daik line Antenna, 

 head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. Tho giound colour and e^en the 

 markings vary in shade, some specimens being almost ochreous-brown, the 

 ocelli often ochieous-ringed on the underside ; the tiansveue ditcal fasciae on 

 the hindwing with one or two subcostal white spots, that in interspace 7 

 often large, and occasionally there is one in the same position on the subbasal 

 transverse band. The uet-season insect, that is, the one appealing in the very 



