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of leaf-surface on each side upon which it sits ; when full-grown cuts 

 off entire leaflets or leaves attaching them to stalk by silks and lives 

 on one of these banging leaflets or leaves. The pupa is formed 

 hanging from the underside of a leaf or sometimes from the end of 

 the original midrib. The ways of the butterfly are very similar to 

 those of Neptis eurynome or Neptis columella, but more like t e lat- 

 ter in its habit of flying higher up than the former and in its liking 

 for jungly places ; it rests in a similar manner. The insect exists in 

 Benga!, Southern India, in Kanara and Travancore, the Nilgiris, 

 Ceylon, Burma, Teuasserim and the Andiunans. The foodplants are 

 many, even more numerous than those of Neptis euryvome. It has 

 been found on many Leguminosce, mostly trees such as Xylia dolabri- 

 formis, Pongamia glabra, shrubs and creepers such as Valbergicn and 

 Wagatea spicata ; on Malvacecu, such as Bombax malabaricnm, 

 T/iespesia populnea. Hibiscus, ike. ; 2'iliacece such as Grewia, 

 Elaocarpus, Rliamnacece such as Zizi/phus. &c. 



51. Cyrestis thyoda mas, i^om/wrai (Plate C, fig. 11).— Male and female 

 upperskle white, in many specimens, pale ochiaceous yellow, veins black. Fore- 

 wing with four very slender, irregularly sinuous transveise black lines, the 

 costal margin shaded with ochraceous at base and fuscous beyond ; cell crossed 

 by three or four additional fine short lines ; a postdiscal very incomplete 

 series of white-centred bi'oad fuscous rings in the interspaces, tinged with 

 ochraceous near the tornus and broadly interrupted in interspaces '6 and 4 ; 

 beyond this two iransveise black lines not reaching the doisal maigin, 

 shaded with fuscous between ; a pronounced subterniinal black line ; 

 terminal margin black, the area between lilacine-grey ; cilia grey ; the apex 

 broadly shaded with fuscous. Hindwing with three transverse fine lines ; a 

 pair of postdiscal, broad, black lines shaded with light sepia-brown between, 

 forming a conspicuous band, the outer line broken and incomplete, followed by 

 two irregular fine black lines, a snbterminal more pronounced black line and, 

 posteriorly, a narrow black terminal margin ; dorsal margin broadly fuscous at 

 base ; apical half and the toinal aiea and lobe lich ochiaceous with some 

 sepia-brown and black markings. Lnderside similar, the markings cf the 

 upperside showing through by transparency ; the ochiaceous shading on 

 tornal area and dorsum of hindwing of less extent but the toinal lobe darker 

 ochraceous with a central round black spot. The markings both on under and 

 upperside vary little in depth of colour aud breadth. In many specimens there 

 18 a diffuse fuscous spot between the discal pair of transverse fine lines on fore- 

 wing. Antenna;, head, thorax and abdomen with dorsal aud lateral black linea ; 

 white below. Exp. 48-70 mm. 



Egg. — Ik highly dome-shaped, almost conical, ridged longitudinally, with &■ 



