LEPIDOPTERA. 4' 3 



full-grown larva is green with oblique brownish cross-bands. 

 Pupa pale brownish or greenish slung by a girdle and anal pad. 

 I I larval and pupal periods are each of about a fortnight's 

 duration. 



Foodplants. Various species ol Citrus (Orange, Citron), Bael 

 V marmelos) and other Rutaceae. Also occasionally on Psoralea 

 corylifolia (Tel. Bavunchi) sometimes on curry-leaf plant (Murraya 

 kcenigi) (Tarn. Karuveppilai). 



Stiitus. -Sometimes a serious pest, stripping all the leaves when 

 in large numbers. 



Control. — Hand-picking when the attacked bushes can be reach- 

 ed; the eggs and larvas are fairl) easily seen. 



ITERID/E. 

 ( \ rOPSILIA PYRANTHE, Linn. 

 Papilio pyranthe, Linn., Syst. Nat, X. 469(1758). 

 Catopsilia pyranthe, Lefroy, End. [ns. Life. p. 418, I. 289; Kershaw. 

 Butt. Hongkong, pp. ioo-loi, t. 7, f. 9. t. 11, f. 5, t. 13, f. 9, t.3\ 

 ff. 21-22; Bingham. Faun. Ind. Butt.. II. 221 223. 



psilia pyranthe. (( )riginal.l 



Distribution. — Throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory. — The egg is spindle-shaped, white and almost si 

 and is laid singl) on the leaves and stems of the foodplant. The 

 larva has a roughened skin and is pah- leaf-green in colour with a 

 lateral row ot nearly-continuous black dots above a longitudinal 

 pal. -yellow stripe. Pupa smooth, pah green, attached to a twig or 

 leaf bj a girdle and anal patch of silk. 



Foodplants. Cassia occidentalis and (. auriculata, Sesbania and 

 probably other Leguminosa>. 



Status. — Rarely a pest though it often occurs in very large 

 numbers. On one occasion, however, the caterpillars of this butter- 

 fly were sent as destructive to Sesbania in the Cumbum range, 

 Madura district; but various noctuid caterpillars were also 

 cerned in this > a 



