COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 927 



darker brown, an irregular waved line from the middle of the costa 

 across both wings darker brown, the area within it more or less 

 suffused with brown, the area beyond it paler. A wavy brownish 

 suffusion beyond this, containing in the upper half of the forewing 

 4 white dotlike spots, and on the hindwing a dark brown spot 

 between veins 2 and o. Indistinct wavy subterminal and terminal 

 lines. Underside similar to the upper, but the markings more distinct 

 with patches of mauve suffusion on the subterminal line. 



Cilia of both sexes whitish between the veins. 



Expanse. — If" to 2". (Plate C, 15 male, 15a female.) 



Larva. — Slender, tapering at each end, greenish, pale yellow on the 

 back except the dorsal line, a yellow spiracular line on each side. The 

 head, 2 branched spines on the second segment and 2 simple ones 

 on the anal segment black. 



There is another species exactly similar to this, but without the 

 white spots on the forewing (Apatura parisatis Wstw.) found in 

 Assam and N.-E. India. 



A species more akin to A. garuda which the beginner might also 

 very probably come across is A. lubentina, G. 



This is a most beautiful insect, of a deep dark ivy-green colour, 

 glossy and almost iridescent in some lights with a vermilion black out- 

 lined spot in the cell of forewing and 2 outer rows of vermilion spots 

 on the hindwing. In the male there is a row of small bluish-white 

 spots beyond the middle joined by another row from the apex which 

 in the female are replaced by a broad macular transverse band of 

 quadrate bluish-white spots. 



The larva feeds on the common parasitic plant known as the Indian 

 mistletoe which so often grows on the mango trees. 



