COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 877 



defined, the veins narrowly duskj-. Underside pale ochraceoua. Fore wing : 

 cell crossed by five sinuous dark-brown linos, a similar line on the discoccllulars 

 and another beyond it, both bent inwards at an angle and continned to the 

 doi-sum, the space between them forming a discal broad fascia paling to whitish 

 posteriorly ; the post discal ocelli, subterminal and terminal lines as on the 

 Upperside but paler, Hindwing : a slender transverse, subbasal, dark line and 

 a discal, whitish, straight fascia in continuation of the one on the forewing; 

 the postdiscal ocelli, the subterminal and terminal lines much as on the upper- 

 side but paler ; the anterior ocellus with a double iris and centre. Antennae 

 dark brown ; head, thorax and abdomen as in the dry-season form but slightly 

 darker. Exp. 54-62 mm. 



These two forms do not only differ very strongly as to the colour of the 

 underside and superficially, in the pattern there, but also in the shape of the 

 wings ; the forewing in the dry-season form acquiring a very prominent hooked 

 apex ; the hindwing a considerable access to the length of the tornal angle or 

 tail; the full icet-season insects have neither the hooked apex nor the tail, though 

 of course there are many intermediate ones born at the change of the seasons. 



Larva. — Shape like the other Junonkn ; arrangement of spines also the same. 

 Head broad, heart-shaped, as broad as high ; surface shiny, covered with minute 

 white, setiferous tubercles, setae white ; on vertex of each lobe is one larger 

 yellow hair^bearing conical tubercle as also some smaller ones of the same 

 colour; a few black bristles on back margin ; colour of head black, apical half 

 of clypens orange. Spiracles large, oval, shiny black. Surface of body covered 

 with minute white, setiferous tubercles, the set* black ; the surface velvety 

 looking ; the segmental membrane are brownish and without tubercles. 

 Segment 2 with a collar of simple erect black hairs, a subspiracular sharp 

 spiniferous pedicel and a smaller one on base of leg. Anal flap ending in a 

 round, shiny black boss. Segments well marked. Segment 12 has the two 

 dorsal spines, a supraspiracular and subspiracular one but none on the ventral 

 face laterally as usual. The colour of the body is smoky black, the neck is 

 orange, the belly brownish, an obsolescent brownish subspiracular line ; the 

 spine-bearing pedicels black with dirty light oi-ange spines with black tips to 

 them. L: 41mm. ; B : 5-.0mm. ; L. of pedicels : 2mm. : all of the same length 

 except those on base of legs which are smaller. 



Pupa.- — Is of the usual type. Head square in front, half as long as broad 

 (length in the sense of pupal length), with a small, rather broad, rounded, 

 short point in front of each eye ; vertex convex. Segment 2 the same length as 

 head with the front margin bent back in a small sinus towards hinder margin. 

 Thorax broadly and very slightly convex the slope of dorsal line at front margin 

 being in a plane at right angles to longitudinal axis of pupa, its apex hardly 

 higher than segment 4, its hinder margin a slight curve ; it is carinated 

 very slightly in dorsal line. The shouldei-s are slightly angulated with 

 another small tubercular point at origin of wing. The constriction behind 

 thorax moderate dorsally, wide and shallow laterally ; wing expanded ever ao 



