COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 519 



smooth looking with a dorsolateral, small, fleshy, white tubercle on segment 

 13 on the white line ; there are no others. Spiracles of ordinary size, oval, 

 fleshy light-brown with fine black border and a thicker black line inside 

 parallel to margin. Colour of larva is a rich grass-green above the sub- 

 spiracular enamel-white band which starts at base of anal claspers and 

 runs forward to the front margin of segment 7 quite straight ; then, 

 getting gradually thinner, on to segment 6 where it curves up to the 

 supraspiracular region, bordering the dorsal green and leaving the 

 ventral watery smoky grey colour between it and the crest of segment 

 5 protruding upwards in a triangle into the segmental membrane 

 between the two segments 5 and 6 ; this segmental membrane is black ; 

 the anal segment is white mottled with black ; the front margin of 

 segment 2 and its continuation backwards to the crest on segment 5 is 

 yellow ; the bases of legs and visible \entral portions of segments 2-6 is 

 watery dark-grey ; there is a dark black-mottled grey broad band running 

 diagonally across segments 8 and 9, bordered in front by a line running 

 from above lower anterior corner of segment 8 up and back to dorsum in 

 front of hinder margin of segment 9 where it meets the one on the other 

 side; behind it is bordered by a line starting from hinder margin of segment 

 8 up that margin and then back to hinder margin of segment 9 sub- 

 dorsally, the band getting narrower on dorsum ; segment 10 is grey-mottled 

 with black behind a light line starting at anterior margin of segment 10, 

 curving backwards and up to the subdorsal region of segment 10 where 

 there is a semicircular production of the dark mottling forward on either 

 side of larva, the dorsal part of the complete transverse band formed by 

 the markings on either side being its narrowest part ; vertex greyish ; true 

 legs brownish ; pseudo legs large, thick and fleshy, greyish, marked with 

 two transverse dark lines. The eye of segment 4 is black with a trans- 

 verse brown line and a yeUow-brown border ; the crest is finely veined with 

 black between the eyes as in folymnestor ; the hinder crest is lighter green 

 with slight white markings and violet loops, also as in polyvmestor. The 

 scent organs are deep flesh-coloured. L : 75mm ; B at segment 5 : 12mm. 



Pupa. — The pupa is very similar in general shape to that of P. polym- 

 nestor. The front part of the longitudinal axis is inclined at an angle of 

 90°, slightly more than in that species, to the hinder half ; the head- 

 points are perhaps slightly longer as they are certainly stouter and are 

 perhaps also thrown back very slightly ; the front slope of thorax is quite 

 perpendicular to the longitudinal axis at that point ; the extremities of the 

 greatest width of pupa are perhaps more prominent and are somewhat 

 flattened above and below. The surface is very much rougher, and there 

 are prominent subdorsal tubercles on segments 8, 9 as well as a smaller 

 lateral one and indications of such on segments 10, 11. Spiracles of seg- 

 ment 2 indicated by little semicircles on the surface of the segment with 



