COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. H6'^ 



aperture at the top fitted with u deeply dentate flat cap like a cogged wheel, the 

 cogs fitting into corresponding openings round the top of the body of the egg, 

 the resulting teeth between the openings being the tops of the longitudinal rid- 

 ges. The colour is a greasy shiny yellow. The length would be slightly over 1 mm 



Liirva (PI. 1., fig 7). — The form of the larva is s[iindlc-shapc, with a pair 

 of outward curved long horns on the head, a long, recurved, doisal horn on 

 segment 6 and another, curved forwards, on segment 12 ; the colour is dark 

 brown with a broad spiracular yellow band on segments 7 14. The; head has 

 the face flat, the surface tubercular-rugose, each lobe having a long, outwardly 

 curved horn, in the same plane as the face, on its vertex ; these hoins first 

 diverge slightly and strongly and are separated at base by a small semi 

 circular sinus ; they are twice as long as the head is high, their surface as well as 

 that of the rest of head set with small black setiferous tubercles ; colour ot head 

 and horns brown-black, a line down centre of face as well as the back and inside 

 face of horns light brown ; a greenish-white cheek-stripe. Segment 2 narrower 

 than head ; so is segment 3 ; rest of body is thicker than the head is broad, 

 very slightly broadest in the middle ; anal end somewhat narrowed, the anal 

 segment sloping dorsally considerably, square at extremity ; segment 6 has a 

 very stout, recurved, dorsal horn pointing backwards, longer than the body Is 

 high and covered thickly with small conical setiferous tubercles, those en the 

 posterior face being longer and spine-like ; segment 11 has a similar horn, 

 directed slightly backwards but curved forwards, the tip slightly recurved 

 tubercled throughout its length, the posterior tubercles longer ; both these 

 horns (on vsegments 6 and 12) are dark brown in colour with a yellow anuulus 

 before the point. Spiiacles roundly oval, large, nearly flush, light bicwn in 

 colour. Suiface of body covered with small, shortly setiferous tubercles, the 

 tubercles black on the body and yellow on the yellow spiracular band Colour 

 of the body dark brown with a broad yellow-green spiracular band from the 

 front margin of segment 7 to the end of larva, commencing broad and thin- 

 ning posteriorly ; belly watery reddish brown. L : 33 without horns, 36 mm. 

 with ; B : 4mm ; L. of head -horns : 4'5mm ; of horn on segment 6 : 5mm; of that 

 on segment 12 : 5mm. 



Pupa (PI. I, fig. 7 a.) — The pupa is a mixture between those of Jpafuni 

 ca7nib a and Moduza procris in shape but has two longhead-processes staiting 

 out straight in front in the same plane as ventrum, curving up strongly towards 

 dorsal plane, slightly sepaiated from each other at origin and at extremity but 

 closely applied to each other throughout most of their length; they are conical at 

 base, cylindrical afterwards and are set with minute tubercles, especially ntar the 

 tips. The thorax is highest near its hinder margin, slightly keeled in the dorsal 

 line, this line descending at 45° to longitudinal axis of pupa towaids segment 4 

 to rise slowly from anterior margin of segmetn G, then rapidly from hinder 

 margin of that segment, nearly peipendicularly to its loimer coui'se, to the 

 anterior top angle of a trapeze-shaped, laterally flattened expansion of the 

 dorsal keel over segments 7 and 8, of which the posterior edge, paiallel lo the 

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