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Another thing which is worth noting is that the time oceupied from 
egg to imago is much shorter in the case of the young-leaf fed larva than 
in the one that is reared on hard, dry leaves. The quickest growth I 
have ever noticed was that of Atella aleippe and phalanta, which only 
took 13 days from egg to imago. Another thing that is usually the 
case also, is that the cold-weather forms, or those resulting from dry- 
leaf fed larvee, are larger than those resulting from larve fed on young, 
wet leaves; it seems, therefore, that the slower the larval growth 
(always given plenty of food, and fresh), the larger the imago Of 
course the wet-season or succulent leaf-fed larve always produce darker 
imagines ; so that the larger specimens are nearly always, I might say 
always, lighter in colour than the smaller. Starving larvee is sometimes 
productive of curious results, as, in one skipper I bred, and the larva 
of which I starved, the resultant imago, or imagines, for there were 
several (it was a Parnara) had only one of the semi-hyaline marks show- 
ing or present on the fore-wing, and was half the size it should have 
been ; so that de Niceville, of Calcutta, made a separate species of it 
under the name of philotas, de Niceville. I have no opportunity now 
of breeding and trying experiments; neither, I am afraid, have La 
chance of sending Poulton series of the butterflies he wants; if I get 
back to Kanara, then I shall be able to send them to him. One could 
write reams on seasonable dimorphism and the effect it shows in 
different species. For it is a curious fact that in species of the same 
genus, the line the differences take between the two forms are very 
different. For example, in Melanitis the “rains” form of leda and 
aswa show a finely vermiculated surface without a sign of the midrib 
marking, whereas, in JZ. gokhala, the wet form only differs from the 
dry in having more “ink” underneath. Whereas Aallima shows the 
midrib on the under-side in wet and dry forms, Melanitis leda and 
aswa show no signs of it in the wet forms ; whereas the wet forms of 
Kallima and Melanitis are darkest on the under-side; and though 
darker on the upper-side in the wet form, Junonia asterie always is 
lightest in that form beneath. Ocellation of the under-side seems 
always, without exception, to be an effect of moisture; the wet form 
of Junonia asterie, for example, is abundantly ocellated, whereas the 
dry-season form is quite plain, with a well-defined midrib. 
There is a curious thing in connection with Doleschallia polibete 
which may be interesting, and that is, whereas the male is very active, 
and continually found perching on leaves near the tops of trees, very 
often in the open, the female is hardly ever seen out of thick vegeta- 
tion and dark places; in fact only one female is seen for a dozen or 
