COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 579 



margined ring ; the upper spot much the smallest, sometimes traces of 

 a black spot immediately above it. Two snbmarginal and a marginal 

 brown line, the spaces between them suffused with brownish. 



Hindw'mg bright orange-yellow with the marginal lines as in the 

 forewing. A large ocellate spot beyond the cell reaching from near 

 the costa to below vein 5 ; the centre pinkish dusted with grey and 

 containing one black and two white suffused patches, the inner rin a 

 pale-yellowish and the outer black. 



Underside. Dry-season form. — Uniform pale brown. A straight brown 

 line across the disc of the hindwing and traces of submarginal lines. 



Wet- season form. — Pale ochreous, marginal brown lines, ocellate spots, 

 and brown spots in and beyond the cell of the upperside prominent. 

 The postmedial brown streak of the forewing continued to the inner mar- 

 gin. Hindwing with a straight narrow whitish band across the centre 

 of the wing and an additional ocellate spot between veins 2 and 3. 



Distribution. — Throughout India and Ceylon. 



Expanse 2£" at UJ 



Junonia iphita, Br. Glossy brown. — Forewing with two darker 

 lines in the cell and two at the end of it, an irregularly dark-brown 

 postmedial line, the space beyond it paler ; a darker subapical suffusion 

 preceding faint traces of a row of brown spots ; submarginal and marginal 

 brown lines. The cilia generally irregularly blotched with white. 



Hindwing with the outer half paler, traces of a row of postmedial 

 spots and with marginal and submarginal brown lines. 



Underside generally a much richer brown, the lines of the upperside 

 shewn as bands nearly chocolate in colour ; the postmedial spots more 

 prominent, ringed with pale centres and sometimes particularly towards 

 the costa of the hindwing, outlined with the pale-yellow patches. 



This is by far the dingiest of the genus and it has a slower flopping 

 kind of flight, but when seen close its glossy velvetty appearance is 

 by no means unhandsome. 



Distribution. — Throughout India and Ceylon. 



Expanse 2£" at 3." 



The other species of this genus, J. atlites, L., which we have not 

 figured, is a pale-grey insect, both wings crossed by numerous brown 

 lines and having a postmedial series of spots, which vary much in size 

 and may number seven on the forewing and six on the hindwino- 

 being reddish -orange with black centres in white dark-edged rings. 

 The markings on the underside are similar to the upper. 



(To be contimied.) 



