COMMON BUTTERt'LlES OF THE PLAI^^S OF INDIA. 



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lateral tubercles, on segment ;5. are very small ; the luxl, on segment 4, as also 

 the pair on segment G.are longer and equal to each other : the pair on segment 

 12 are as long as these last but thinner : all tubercles are set witii short erect 

 hairs at their ends. Spiracles are nearly circular, small, .shiny dark brown in 

 colour. The markings are as follows : there is a slightly raised subspiracular 

 fold of skin from segment 5 to segment 12. approaching nearest to the base of 

 legs on segments 7 and 8. being slightly curved ; there is a white dorsal line, 

 flanked by dark-green narrowly, from end to end of larva : the space included 

 between the tubercles of segments 4 and 12. bounded laterally by a line con- 

 necting the bases of the former tubercles with the end of the fold on segment 

 5. then by the fold as far as front margin of segment 9, then by a line con- 

 necting this point with the dorsal line at posterior margin of segment 1 1 is 

 green strongly sufPused with grey : all the l)ody anterior to this space (which 

 may be called the saddle) and segment 8 (on the saddle) is light olive-green 

 getting whitish upwards ; the part of body after segment 8 below the saddle 

 as far as anal claspers is dark olive-green ; there is a black diagonal band 

 along the line separating this dark olive part from the grey-green saddle • each 

 segment 6, 7. 8, 9 is marked laterally with a dark green diagonal stripe of 

 which that on segment (I is often the best defined, the succeeding ones becom- 

 ing more and more indistinct. L : 2r)mm. ; B : 4mm. 



Pupa.— The pupa is of the same shape as that of Neptis jumbah, though 

 smaller. The thorax is somewhat highly keeled in dorsal line, as also the 

 abdomen in the posterior part ; the wings are expanded laterally, the margin 

 (lateral margin of the pupa) being sharp and slightly waved : the outer margin 

 of wings is also slightly waved. The front of the head is widely and shallowly 

 concave, sharp edged dorso-ventrally, the vertex is slightly convex, the ascent 

 in dorsal line is slight. The dorsal slope of thorax is at 45° to the longitudinal 

 axis of pupa, the apex the same height as abdomen at segment 6, the wing- 

 expansion curve nearly rising to the same height as the apex of thorax 

 Cremaster flat and triangular with extensor ridges developed dorsally. Spiracles 

 ordinary in size, roundly oval, raised, dark brown. Surface of body extremely 

 finely rugose with transverse striae ; segment 5 with a flat, raised, rather large 

 subdorsal surface which is shiny mother-of-pearl ; segment 4 with two such 

 surfaces on each side, one subdorsal, the larger, the other, lateral, much smaller; 

 the thorax has two such raised surfaces in juxtaposition slightly anteriorly on 

 lateral margin, the anterior one the smaller and another just in front of these; 

 segment 2 has one such lateral spot ; the colour of the pupa is green, wings' 

 darker, indications of diagonal bands on abdomen. L : 12 : mm. : °B : 4'5mm. 

 at widest part of wing expansion ; H : 4-2mm. 



Habits.— The egg is laid on rlie top .sm-tace of a leafier. The vouik'- 

 larva, emergino-, cuts the midrih of the leaf nearly through, then cuts 

 the leaflets oft' at their bases, attaching them by silken threads to their 

 respective i)laces, and cuts the pinnip through in several jdaces, 



