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there are none on segments 12 and 13 ; on thorax, near hinder margin, there is 

 a subdorsal tubercle. The colour is greyish brown-red with the wings, posterior 

 portion of segment 8 and segment 12 lighter than the rest. The colour is nearly 

 black sometimes with the light parts nearly white. L : 16mm. ; B: 6mm. 



Habits. —The habits are very much the saTiie as those of Junonia 

 orithya in the larval and pupal states as well as for the imago. The 

 latter is found in the same localities as J. orithya preferring, perhaps 

 more protection from wind and rain ; it is fond of sitting on paths and 

 open ground with its wings spread to the sun and does not rise far from 

 the ground though it is a quick strong flier. When not basking 

 it rests with its wings closed and is then not easy to see, herein also 

 resembling J. orithya. The butterfly is not plentiful in hilly, jungly 

 country, but is common in many parts of the open plains. The larva 

 feeds on Acanthacece; it has been bred on Asteracavtha lo7igiJoUa, Nees. 

 The butterfly is found throughout Indian limits and extends to China. 



.57. Junonia almana, Linn. (PI. A, fig. 5). — Dry season form. — Male 

 and female upperside rich orange-yellow. Forewing with a pale dusky and a 

 much darker, sometimes bluish, short, transverse bar with jet-black margins 

 across cell, another somewhat similar bar defining the discocellulars ; costal 

 margin, an inner and an outer subterminal line and a terminal line, dusky black ; 

 a large minutely white-centred bluish ocellus ringed by slender ochraceous line 

 ;ind bordered by black in interspace 2 ; two similar but geminate ocelli with an 

 obscure pale spot above them and a short oblique black or dusky bar connecting 

 them to the black on costa. Hindwing : a small minutely white-centred and 

 very slenderly black-ringed plum-coloured or bluish ocellus in interspace 2, with 

 a large yellow and black-ringed ocellus spreading over interspaces 4, 5, 6, the 

 centre inwardly brownish orange or bluish plum-coloured, outwardly blue and 

 black, with two white spots one below the other between the two colours ; then 

 postdiscal, subterminal and terminal black sinuous lines. Underside ochraceous 

 brown, often with a violet bloom, very variable in shade. In most specimens 

 the cell of the forewing is crossed by three dark sinuous bands, the outermost 

 along the discocellulars ; these are very faint in some ; both fore and hind- 

 wing crossed by a basal and a discal pale sinuous line margined outwardly 

 by a dark shade which is traversed by an obscure, somewhat obsolescent row of 

 dark spots and outwardly bounded by a subterminal pale sinuous line, the dark 

 shade in many cases spreading on the forewing to the ceimmal edge of the 

 wing ; on the hindwing the subterminal line meets the discal in an acute angle 

 at the tornus ; the veins are generally slenderly ochreous on the basal half of 

 wings, the cilia also slightly ochreous. Antennae dark brown ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen more or less orange-brown ; paler beneath. 



Wet season form. — Male and female upperside similar, the black markings 

 deeper in colour and heavier, the subteiminal and terminal lines more clearly 



