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V, Head orange with a broad black 

 line on each side of clypeus reach- 

 ing half way up face Hyp. misippus. 



While all the danaine larvee confine themselves for food to the 

 two closely allied botanical families of the Asclepediacem and 

 Apocynacece and the Satijrinai to the Graminece only, the nymphaline 

 caterpillars, numbering eight times the former and four times the 

 latter, are distributed between quite twenty families. Most of the 

 larvce are confined to a single family and generally to a single species 

 or, perhaps, two. A few are fairly cosmopolitan in taste as, for 

 e:liimiAe. Neptis jumh,h which feeds upon plants belonging to six 

 diff'erent families. Nearly allied larvee do not necessarily feed upon 

 nearly allied plants. We find all five Juuonias feed upon acanthace- 

 ous plants only, while the five EathaUas (including Doplda) have 

 foodplants belonging to four different families, two feeding upon plants 

 of one family and each of the others on plants of separate families. 



In the above key Cynthia and Parthenos have been included although 

 left out of the key of the Genera of the Sub-family. Neither of 

 them will iu-obably be met with north of Kanara. They can be 

 reco cruised as follows, coming under B of the generic key :— 

 B. Costa of fore wing not serrated, and 

 a. Cell of both wings closed for Parthenos. 



fli. Eyes naked, vein 12 of forewing not swollen and the colour green, 



while Argymiis and Hypolimnas are either black or tawny. 



d. Cell of forewing closed, of hindwing open but in appearance closed 



by a fold in the membrane of the wing between veins 4 and 5 



well beyond the origin of vein 3 for Cynthia ; the male is tawny, 



the female green. 



There is a note of interrogation after JSfepth hordonia in one case, 



because it has not been quite settled whether the two forms of larvffi 



belong to one butterfly or whether there are two species of butterfly 



closely resembling each other. 



The acrffiine Telchin/a violoi has been included in the key as the 

 larva comes in conveniently. 



DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES OF NYMPHALIXiE. 



34. Charaxes imna, JJufJer.— Male upperside deep veddi^h inlyous. Fore- 

 wing: a short baron dis=cocellulars and apical half jet black. Hindwing: a 

 sinuous black line from costa to vein 7 ; a broad, posteriorly much narrowed, 

 subterminal black patch from apex of wing to vein 2 ; two inwardly white- 



