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rather long, stiff, black hairs round margin of segment 2 and segment 14, 

 directed straight out ; there is, to each segment 3-12, a depressed dorso- 

 lateral, longitudinal line making the surface prominent dorsally and later- 

 ally and the tops of these prominent parts are set with similar, black brist- 

 les or hairs giving the appearance of bunches. Spiracles in slight depres- 

 sions, rather large, circular, white in colour. Colour : green with a broad, 

 dorsal, somewhat interrupted band flanked by a whitish band and a dorso- 

 lateral white line ; a lateral and subspiracular, interrupted red line ; the 

 former composed of a red spot on each segment from which the bunch of 

 hairs arises, the latter sometimes obsolescent ; the front margin of segment 

 2 also red. The red markings may sometimes be all very faint. L : 7mm; 

 B : 2mm. 



Pupa. — Normal but slender, thickest in middle, anal end very narrow, 

 rounded at extremity, thorax slightly humped, the middle of body highest. 

 Segment 2 rather broad and somewhat square in front. Surface covered 

 with longish, white, erect hairs, especially at both ends. Spiracles very 

 small, circular. Colour green with a red, dorsal line and a black spot at 

 front margin of segment 4, subdorsal. L: 6mm ; B : 2 •25mm. 



Habits. — The eggs are laid singly and, generally, upon the hairs 

 of the bracts of the foodplant, NeUonia campestris. This is a com- 

 mon herb in the damper jungles of Kanara where the larva was first 

 found, with sticky, soft, haiiy parts. The larva generally'- is found 

 eating the flowers with the body half-buried inside. The phases of 

 the egg, larva and pupa are of normal duration in the tropical 

 countries. The larva is attended by small ants which seem to be 

 always about the foodplant though not always on the larva or 

 near it. The butterfljr is a weak flier, and alwaj^s stays near the 

 ground, resting often like the other species of the genus. It seems 

 to be more fond of shade than the othei's and is plentiful in the big- 

 jungles of Kanara, often frequenting damp places where, as a 

 matter of fact, the above foodplant generally grows. It is probable 

 that the larva feeds upon several species of Strohilanthes, besides 

 another acanthaceous genus {Nehonia is acanthaceous), most of the 

 members of which, or the species of which are inhabitants of the 

 regions of heavy rainfall. 



138. Zizera otis, Fabr — Male. Upperside: pale violet-blue, with a silvery 

 sheen in certain lights. Fore wing : a broad brown edging along the ter- 

 men, which covers in some specimens quite the outer fourth of the wing, 

 while in others it is much narrower. In all specimens it is broadest at apex 

 and is bounded by an anteciliary darker line, beyond which the cilia are 

 brownish at base and white outwardly. Hind wing: anterior or costal 

 third to half and apex brown ; a slender black anteciliary line, beyond which 

 the cilia are as in the fore wing. Underside : brownish grey. Fore wing : a 

 short, transverse, dusky lunule on the discocellulars and a transverse, ante- 

 riorly curved, discal series of seven (or eight) minute black spots, all the 

 spots more or less roxinded, the posterior two geminate, the discocellular 

 lunule and each discal spot conspicuously encircled with white ; the ter- 

 minal markings beyond the above consist of an inner and an outer trans- 

 verse subterminal series of dusky spots, each spot edge on the inner side 

 very obscurely with dusky white, the inner line of spots lunular, the outer with 

 the spots more or less rounded. Cilia dusky. Hind wing : a transverse, 

 slightly curved, subbasal series of four spots and an irregular, transverse 



