576 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XY1. 



THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 



Explanation of Plate A (1). 



Fig. 1. Argynnis hyperbius, 9 

 la. do. $ 



2. Junonia hierta f $ 



3. Junonia lemonias. 



4. Junonia orithya, $ 

 ia. do. $ 



5. Junonia almana, 



6. Junonia iphita. 



J. axirtes, ±j., tnougn ituoes not uuuur m iu« xvuii^vaui w uomci uumuaj 

 than Goa is yet found in all the other forest regions of the Peninsula. 

 The species although differing very much in colour are all so obviously 

 allied in general form and habit that the beginner should have no 

 difficulty in grouping them together at once. Messrs. Aitken, Bell, and 

 Davidson wrote of them in the Journal some years ago : " We have 

 reared all our Junonias and cannot ordinarily tell the larva? and pupa? 

 from one another. . . . They all feed on acanthads. 



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