COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 869 



covered as usual sparsely with minute, whitish, Betiferous tiibeiclea. Spiracles 

 oval, dull black, Bush, of ordii ary size. L : 'M^ mm, -,6:7 nsm. 



J'ui)a. — There is nothing much to distinguish this from tLatof the preceding 

 species in colour or size so that no particular description has been kept. 



Kaliits. — The habits of the htrva are much the stun:» us those of 

 ./. ipliita ;ind the method of pupation and choice of U)cality also. 

 The style of flight of the imago is also similar as well as the other 

 habits. '1 his species is, perhaps, less fond of ab.solute plain country 

 than either J. orithya or J. hierta and is certainly not as ni merous 

 as any of the other species where they ure found ; it is more 

 an insect of the jungles than any of the others except J. ipliiia, 

 though this does not mean that it is anywhere confined to those jun- 

 gles. The foodplants — for there are probably many— all belong to 

 the same family as those of the last species. Plants the caterpillar 

 has been found on are Nelsoniu campestris, 11., and Astemcuniha longi- 

 folia, Nees., the former a diffuse herb spreading over consideiable 

 areas in the jungles, with sticky or glutinous leaves and flower- 

 bracts, the latter a herbaceous plant growing in damp })lace.>, with 

 whorls of sharp thorns, lanceolate le.ives and blue fioweis, very 

 common ; both of them distributed throughout India as is also the 



butterfly. 



54. Junonia at lites, Johanxen. — Male and iema\e upper side pale lavender- 

 brown, apical half of the wings paler. Foiewirg : cell with three tmnsverse, 

 short, sinuous, black bands, the outermost defining the discocellulars ; a 

 similar short, somewhat broader band beyond apex of cell ; two tian.sverse 

 discal dusky black fasciae, the inner higtily sinuous and ouiwaidly angulate above 

 vein 4, the outer straighter, somewhat luuular, bordered by a series of whitish 

 ovals with dusky or black centres ; ihe black-centred spots in the intei^paces 

 2, 5, 6 margined inwardly with rich ochreous yellow. Beyond this s'eries of 

 ovals is a lunular narrow transverse dark band followed by fcinuois subterminal 

 and terminal dark lines. Apex of wing and terminal margins, more or less 

 broadly, slightly fuliginous ; cillia giey, Hindwing : a t-hort slender black loop 

 from veia ri to 4 at apex of cell area ;two disc il sinuous transvei'se dark-iascia: in 

 continuation of those on the forewing ; followed by a series of dark-centred ovals 

 inintc^paces 2-6, those in interspaces 2.5,0 with dark centres inwardly bordered 

 broadly with ocWreous yellow ; postdisual, subterminal and terminal dark lunnlar 

 lines as on the forewing. Cilia giey. L'mler^iile lilaciue white, maikingas on 

 the uppeiside but very delicate, slender and somewhat obsolescent. In ihe dry 

 iea»on [•rm of the male the rows of oval ocelli aie only indicated by the yellow- 

 centred ovals. The most prominent marking is the inner discal fascia across the 

 wings -, this is much less sinuous than on the upperside and not angulated on the 



