THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE FLAINS OF INDIA. 44r. 



discal series of nine small spots black, each spot encircled narrowly with 

 wliito. Of the discal spots the posterior four are placed in an outwardly 

 oblique, slightly curved line, the middle two spots geminate ; the three 

 spots above those are placed in an oblique transverse line further out- 

 wards ; lastly, the anterior two spots are posed one over the other and 

 shifted well inwards, just beyond the apex of the cell ; discoceJlular lunule 

 and terminal markings as on the fore wing, but the inner, subterminal, 

 lunular Hue in the latter broader and more prominent. Cilia dusky. An- 

 tennte black, shafts ringed with white and tipped dull orange ; head thorax 

 and abdomen brown, with a little blue scaling ; beneath: white. — Female. 

 Upperside : brown, with a more or less distinct suft'usion of violet blue at 

 the base of the wings, on the hind wing continued obscurely along the 

 dorsum ; both fore and hind wings with slender anteciliary lines, darker 

 than the ground-colour. Underside: ground-colour slightly darker than in 

 the male, markings precisely similar. Antennte, head, thorax and abdomen 

 as in the male, but the thorax and abdomen above without any blue 

 scaling. Expanse; male and female, 22-27 mm. 



Larva. — Normal. Head round, smooth, shining yellow, the jaws dark 

 brown, the labrum white, generally hidden under segment 2 ; before the 

 last moult it is entirely dark-shining, red-brown in colour ; segment 2, semi- 

 circular in anterior outline with a dorsal, triangular depression ; anal 

 end flattened dorsally, sloping to end at an angle of about 30^ to the 

 longitudinal axis of the larva, semi-circularly rounded at extremity, the gland 

 on segment 11 slit-shaped, transverse, the organs of segment 12, circular- 

 mouthed protruding a white, cylindrical tube ut intervals ; body highest 

 about segment 5, broadest about segments 5-7 ; segment 3 suddenly 

 somewhat higher than segment 2. Surface dull, covered with minute, white 

 tubercles each surmounted by a minute, sharp spine or hair; there is, 

 besides, a sub-dorsal row of comparatively large, curved, shiny dark brown 

 hairs on segments 8-10, only two on each side on segments 7-10, four on the 

 rest ; the margin of the body is fringed with rather dense, long hairs all 

 round, those at both extremities being longest. Sjnracles minute, shining, 

 round, raised, yellow. Colour grass-green with a subspiracular, yellow band 

 from segment 5 to segment 12 ; an indistinct, dark, dorsal line. L : 9mm ; 

 B : 3mm. 



Pupa. — Normal in shape. Broadest at middle, highest at thorax-apex, 

 constricted in the dorsal line immediately behind thorax ; narrowly square 

 in front, narrowly rounded behind ; the vertex of the head (or frons) is in a 

 plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the pupa and rather large 

 and high ; segment 2 has the front margin straight with a slight triangular, 

 wide, shallow sinus in the dorsal line, the hinder margin curved convexly 

 towarde thorax : its dorsal line sloping up at 4-5° to the longitudinal axis, 

 the transverse section only slightly convex ; thorax humped, the line join- 

 ing the front and hinder margins at a slope of 30° to that axis : the dorsal 

 line of abdomen convex, the ventral line straight ; the wings slightly 

 thickened parallel to each other along their dorsal margins. Surface slightly 

 shining, smooth, covered all over with minute, erect, stiff, pointed, simple, 

 light coloured hair-", especially long round margin of segment 2 and about 

 the anal end. Spiracle.^ of segment 2 indicated by smooth, oval, yellow, 

 small surfaces between the margrns of segments 2 and 3 ; the rest are 

 minute, convex, shining white. Colour of the pupa is light green with a 

 black, dorsal stripe on segment 2, a dorsal, thoracic, dark line, a black 

 smudge along dorsal border of wings at segments 4-5 ; two supraspiracular 

 dots on each of segments 7-12 ; a dorsal, dark green line on the abdominal 

 segments, continuous along the whole length of abdomen ; wings and 

 shoulders slightly blotched brownish. L : 7mm ; B: 3mm. 



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