COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF TUB PLA INS OF INDIA. 849 



Subreorioii. It will be found in Thana and in ;ill liill stations of tho 

 Bombay Presidency. The foodplant of the larva is Mris/^cenda froudosa 

 the well known scandent shrub with the small red tubular flowers and 

 showy white calyx-segments resembling leaves in size and 

 development; Wendlandia exserta, Dc, with opjjosite leaves, and 

 Wendland'ux Notoniana^ Wall., with three-whorled leaves, both plants 

 generally shrubby in nature, sometimes growing to small trees anfl 

 found in somewhat dry situations ; Sarcocephalus mlsiiionis, Haviland, a 

 small tree with shiny long leaves anil globular heads of closely grow- 

 ing ofreenish small flowers which affects the banks of rivers in North 

 Kanara. All three oenera are belonging to the familv of the liuhiacece. 

 It also feeds upon Stephegyne parvi/olia, Korth {Mi/tmgyna, Kortli.) 

 a large tree belonging to the same family known by the vernacular 

 name of Kalam. 



46. Athyma perius, L. (Plate C, fig. 14) and (fig, 12).— Male and female 

 uj)perside black (perhaps blackish brown in the female), with the following 

 white markings : forewing : a clavate, white discoidal streak, twice divided, 

 a cone-shaped large spot beyond ; a much curved discal macular band, the 

 spots composing it in interspaces 1, la, 2 broad, rectangular, in interspace 3 

 small, subtriangular, in interspace 4 circular or oval, in 5 and G elongate, shifted 

 obliquely inwards ; a postdiscal, sinuous line of transverse narrow spots and a 

 subterminal line of obscure, short lunules. Hindwing : discal band of fore- 

 wing continued subbasally across, broad and not macular, traversed only by the 

 veins ; a postdiscal macular band, inwardly margined by a series of round 

 black dots and a subterminal line of obscure lunules as on the forewing. 

 Underside golden ochraceous yellow; the white markings as on the upperside, but 

 heavily margined and defined with black ; interspace la with subbasal and 

 interspace 1 with preapical patches fuliginous black on forewing ; postdiscal 

 band on hindwing margined inwardly with pale blue, bearing a superposed 

 series of black spots, the pale blue extended along the veins crossing the 

 band ; both fore and hindwing with a prominent terminal narrow black band ; 

 the cilia white alternated with brown. AntennEe black : head with a spot of 

 golden ochraceous between the eyes; thorax with a band or two of bluish 

 spots anteriorly and posteriorly : abdomen transversely narrowly barred bluish 

 white; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen pure white ; in the female 

 the abdomen has a double lateral row of minute black dots. Exp. 60-70mm. 



Larva. — The shape is cylindrical like that of Moduza ; there are three rows 

 of pedicelled spines, one subdorsal, one lateral and one subspiracular ; the 

 colour is greenish, the pedicels being red. The head is round, the face only 

 very slightly convex, with a marginal row of 8 sharp, simple, rather long 

 somewhat shiny dark brown spines directed out at right angles to the longi- 

 tudinal axis of larva ; inside this row towards front is another row of 10 hard 



