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THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA 



(INCLUDING THOSE MET WITH IN THE HILL STATIONS 

 OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY). 



BY 



T. R. Bell, lf.s. 



Part VII. 



{Continued from page 682 of this Volwne.) 



45. Moduza procris, Cramer (fig. 9). — Male and female upperside rich 

 ferruginous red. Fore and hindwings with a series of short black transverse 

 lines at base, three on the fore, four on the hind wing ; on the hind wing these 

 lines occur in cellular area only and are very slender with a black spot in each 

 of the interspaces above them ; a white spot, varying in size, at apex of cell on 

 forewings ; a broad white, macular, slightly curved, common discal band, set 

 in a dusky background, interrupted anteriorly on forewing ; the spots in inter- 

 spaces 4, 5 and 6 are detached and slightly out of line, the first very small. 

 Forewing : terminal margin somewhat broadly dusky black, the black produced 

 in conical shape inwardly in the interspaces and traversed by two slender, 

 lunular, pale lines. Hindwing : a postdiscal series ot transverse black spots 

 followed by an outer row of smaller spots, a subterminal lunular black line 

 and a narrow terminal black baud ; a pale, somewhat sinuous line interposed 

 between the subterminal and terminal markings. Underside with similar but 

 more clearly defined markings ; base of fore and basal two-thirds of the hind- 

 wing pale blue ; on the hindwing the white discal band with its dusky black 

 margins superposed on the blue area ; the postdiscal series of black spots on the 

 hindwing diffuse ; the sinuous lines traversing the black terminal margin on 

 both fore and hindwing broader, more prominent and the interspaces along 

 the extreme margin touched with white. Antennae black, ochraceous at apex ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen dark ferruginous red ; beneath bluish white. Exp. 

 62-78 mm. 



Larva. — The body is cylindrical, with spined processes, laterally flattened 

 and somewhat fleshy, on segments 3 to 12. Head large, flat, surrounded with 

 2 rows of pointed spines, one inside the other, the spines of one row alternat- 

 ing with those of the other ; inside the spines, on the face, is a semicircle of 6 

 brownish-red rounded tubercles, inside these again are 4 more similar tubercles. 

 Segment 2 has a central row of 8 minute spines. Each segment 3-12 has a 

 subdorsal and a lateral pedicelled, laterally flattened bunch of spines ; the sub- 

 dorsal bunch of segment 4 being the longest, directed up and somewhat out- 

 wards ; the subdorsal bunches of segments 3, 6, 11 and 12 are somewhat shorter 

 and directed upwards ; those of segments 7 and 8 are smaller again (of equal 

 size to each other) and are directed nearly horizontally outwards; the subdorsal 

 bunches of segments 5 and 6 are very small ; the lateral bunch of segment 3 is 



