COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA . 875 



wing and smaller ocelli in interspaces 2 and 5 on the disc of the hindwing. 

 Fore and liindwings with a fairly well-defined subterminal pale line, the blue 

 spot on the anterior black area of the hindwing smaller, with a lilac shade and 

 more ill-defined or entirely wanting ; the rest as in the male. Underside as in 

 the male, but generally with the markings heavier and more clearly defined. 



Exp. SO-oSmm. 



Larva. — The caterpillar is similar to those of the other Junoniir. 

 in shape and in the disposition of the spines. Head covered with minute, 

 conical yellow tubercles, each bearing a seta on the summit, some few 

 setje rather longer than the rest, some few tubercles on vertex of each 

 lobe slightly larger than the rest, one in particular larger, yellow, bearing 

 a long white seta on it ; colour brown- yellow suffused with black in front : 

 inside the semi-circle of eyes it is also black. The anal flap ends in a 

 •* boss " which is rugose. Spiracles black, shiny, oval. Surface of body 

 covered with very minute, shortly setiferous, conical, yellow, tubercles. 

 Segment 2 has a subspiracular longish pedicel, a small supraspiracular one and 

 a row of foul' small, setiferous black tubercles down the centre on each side. 

 The colour of the body is light greenish-brown, the major part of dorsum of 

 segments 3 and 4 velvety black as also the hinder part of segment 2, there 

 being a double yellow line behind the black of each segment, this yellow 

 broadest on segment 3 ; a sometimes obsolescent black dorsal line ; a blackish 

 patch round the bases of subdorsal tubercles of segments 6-12; belly concolour- 

 ous with dorsum ; all the spinous pedicels (nearly equal in size, about | 

 breadth of head) are black in colour set with sparse brown spinelets ; all the true 

 legs and prolegs are dirty light brown, the former with black claws. L : 37mm. ; 

 B : 6mm. 



Pupa. — Is long and rathei- narrow, coloured a sort of greyish brown-red. 

 Head, segment 2 and thorax together have the same dorsal curve from front 

 of pupa to apex of thorax, that is, that part of the pupal dorsal line is inclined 

 at about an angle of 45° to the longitudinal axis ; the thorax is somewhat 

 humped and evenly convex ; constriction behind thorax very moderate ; 

 abdomen circular in transverse section, thickest at segment 7, gradually decreas- 

 ing to end, the two last segments — segments 13 and 14 — being nearly at right 

 angles to the rest of body : the 12th is suddenly a little narrower than the 

 11th ; the cremaster is very stout, flattened above and below, narrowly de- 

 pressed in ventral line, triangular in shape and of the same width as segment 

 13 at base. The ventral line of pupa is straight. Head is square in front 

 with two small points, one in front of each eye, the pupa broadening out 

 evenly as far as shoulders, where there is a small projection after which the 

 lateral line along the wings is slightly concave ; the edges of wings (^dorsal 

 margins) are very slightly expanded. Surface of pupa is somewhat rough 

 under the lens ; there is a row of very small dorsjil tubercles on abdomen, 

 increasing in size backwards and a subdorsal row of larger ones as well as a 

 lateral row like the dorsal one, one tubercle of each row to each segment ; 



