Lepidoptera observed in Mhow. 381 



Tirumala Limniace, Cramer. 

 Mhow, September 12th, 1881. 



Found the larvae on a species of creeper or vme with 

 a stout woody stem and greenish yellow bark ; leaves 

 broad, smooth, and pointed at extremity. This vine 

 grew close to a tree in my garden, and clung to its 

 branches. All the specimens I bred were obtained from 

 this one plant. 



An outline sketch of the larva is given, showing the 

 four smooth black fleshy "horns," two anteriorly and 

 two posteriorly. The colour of the body is a pale 

 yellowish green, ribbed with black transverse lines. 

 Black markings exist on head, as shown in figure to the 

 left of larva. 



The larvae possess no irritating powers ; they curl 

 up and simulate death for some moments when handled. 

 A fine web attaches them by the prolegs to the leaf 

 on which they are at the time feeding ; this pecu- 

 liarity they possess in common with the larva of 

 Papilio Erithonius. 



The pupae are attached by the tail only ; at first of a 

 green colour, but in a day or two numerous patches 

 of gold of the most brilliant lustre appear on the body 

 and head, and a crescentic line of dots in the situation 

 marked "a" in sketch. 



The imagines appeared from Sept. 26th to Oct. 20th 

 from two different broods of larvae found on the same 

 plant. Of these two were females and five males. The 

 latter possess a curious pouch on the under side of 

 posterior wings a little below their centre. It opens 

 from the upper side of the wing, and contains a fine 

 granular powder-like plumbago, quite inodorous. Front 

 pair of legs rudimentary in both sexes. The males also 

 possess a dense tuft of long yellow hairs like a brush, at 

 each side of last segment of abdomen, but underneath 

 the cuticle. I never saw them protruded, and am un- 

 acquainted with their use. 



The species did not seem to me a common one in the 

 locality, and I met with but few others than those 

 frequenting the above noted plant in my garden. Their 

 flight or habits present nothing noteworthy. They are 

 not very strong on the wing. 



TRa.NS. ENT. see. LOND. 1884. — PART III. (OCT.) 2 C 



