THE COMMOy BlTt'ERFLIEiS OF THE I'LAIMS OF INDIA. (iCl 



ichneuruoned or parasitised by small Dijtii'ro. The tbod])laiit is 

 Endtelia rohvsia, one oi t\v^ ii\m\\y ^lyriii)iea\ a large climber uitli 

 '1 or 3-iuch long, longly-ovate leaves of a someAvliat light, olivace- 

 ous green with prt)mintMit ]mr])le veins, coinnutn in the moist 

 forests of the Western Uhat. Other fuudplants are Eitibclia ribci', a 

 small shrnb with very similar leaves (but larger) and Ardisv' 

 hwiiilis, both of the same family ; the lattei- confined to the ever- 

 green jungles where it often forms a gregarious undergrowth : it 

 has large, thick, longly-ovate leaves, dark green on top, pale 

 beneath, and little waxy, thick-petalled pink-red Howers. The 

 butterfly is a fluttering, weak-winged insect, generally found in the 

 iunglesofthe Western Ghat in Bombay where the rainfall is 

 heavy. It never flies very far and is mostly to be found wheie its 

 foodplant exists. It visits flowers in a desultory way and may 

 sometimes be seen on the ground sucking moisture from damp earth 

 or sand. It sits in the iisual way with the \\ings closed and 

 rarely basks. Its haujits are chiefly close to the groiind in moder- 

 ately shady jungle. Its distribution is : JSikkim : Bhutan ; Southern 

 India ; the Nilgiri and Shevaroy Hills ; the Western Ghats in the 

 Kanara and Belgaum Districts of Bombay ; Ceylon ; Assam ;- 

 ('achar; Burma; Tenasserim ; the !Xicobars ; extending to the 

 Malay Peninsula and Java. 



The figiires 43 and 43a on Plate G, on examination, seem to 

 ivpresent the male and female of Nacaduha idumheoinicans and not 

 'itrata which they were at first supposed to be. The two species 

 are very similar on the uppersides but the figiires are too dark 

 and too pink ; especially that of the female on the upjDerside of 

 which the blue colouration is absurdly dark. It should be whitish 

 with light blue scales at the base of the shade depicted on the 

 figure of Castalius rosimon, No. 46 of the same Plate. 



On second thoughts the figures above are, perhaps, after all,- 

 nearer to atrata. But, to avoid mistakes, a description of ijlnm- 

 lieomicaits follows here : — 



149. Nacaduba plumbeomicans, Wood-Mason and de Nice villc. — Male. Upper- 

 Mile: dull piirplish-bhio, in certain lights with a shining, plumbeous 

 frosting due to the wings being covered all over with small, appressed, 

 white hairs (never present in atrata) ; the white markings of the underside 

 never showing through. Otherwise exactly as in iS . atrata except that, on 

 the hind wing the bases of the cilia are inclined to be narrowly whitish 

 Underside: purplish-brown — the colour is difiicult to describe — with the 

 white markings and black spots nearly exactly as in atrata but with the 

 following dilferences : — Fore wing : the cilia dusky grey with a brown line 

 through the middle : the terminal markings more blurred than in atrata: 

 all markings narrower. Hind wing : nearly exactly the same except that 

 the white markings are slightly finer ; the black terminal spots in inter- 

 spaces '2, 1, lb are completely surrounded with dull-orange ; the terminal 

 markings more blurred and the cilia as on fore wing. Female. Upper- 

 !'idi-: fore wing; costa from the middle of cell and above vein ">. the apex 



