COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE FLAINS OF INDIA. .52ff 



Antennse, head, thorax and abdomen black ; beneath, the abdomen with 

 lateral rows of white specks. This specimen is typical ; but the insect 

 varies a good deal. Often the cell of the hindwing is uniform black to 

 the apex and the number of elongate white marks in the interspaces 

 beyond varies from 2 to 6 ; even the two may be sometimes very curtailed 

 in extent. 



Female, roTOM^«<8 form. — Eesembles the ordinary female ^^o/y^e.s- form but 

 differs as follows : — Forewing crossed from the middle of cell obliquely 

 to the tornal angle by a broad white band somewhat as in 1\ hector, the 

 margins of the band ill-defined ; this is followed by an ill-defined, white 

 patch beyond the apex of the cell. Hindwing with all the discal as well 

 as the subterminal and terminal markings red, including a round red spot 

 at apex of cell. The white band and patch are sometimes much sullied 

 and it varies also in width in different specimens. Exp. 92-n4mm ; the 

 male generally under 100mm. 



Colonel Bingham mentions two remarkable aberrations of the male, both 

 from Southern India. In one the upi^emide forewing had the admarginal 

 white spots along the termen much larger and extended into interspace 8. 

 The hindwing had the transverse discal series of elongate white spots 

 replaced by a series of velvety-black spots darker than the ground-colour 

 of the wing, bordered on the inner side narrowly, on the outer side much 

 more broadly, by ill-defined, diffuse, blue scaling ; the black tornal spot in 

 interspace 1 centred by an irregular deep ochraceous red-spot ; above 

 this is a quadrate white spot and in a line with it in interspace 3 is a 

 similar but narrower white spot ; there is a minute white discal spot in 

 interspace 5. Underside similar to the upperside, the ground-colour duller; 

 the markings on the forewing similar, but the terminal white spots still 

 larger. Hindwing : a discal series of extremely elongate streaks in the 

 interspaces beyond the cell ; these streaks are rich ochraceous-red mixed 

 with white, but turn to pure white without any red in the anterior inter- 

 spaces ; the streaks in interspaces 1-5 interrupted along their inner halves 

 by a row of spots of a shade darker than the ground-colour of the wing : 

 these spots outwardly bordered by diffuse blue scaling. Exp. 98mm. 

 Procured at Coimbatore, S. India. 



The other abnormal specimen, also a male, closely resembled typical 

 specimens but, on the hindwing, the white spots of the transverse discal 

 series are wanting in interspaces 1-3, 7. This gives the insect a super- 

 ficial resemblance to P. daksha. 



^99- — Spherical; hardly perceptibly rough on surface. Colour pale 

 orange, opaque, shiny, smudged with pale-brown. D : 1. 2mm. 



Larva (PI. I, fig. 14). — Is the same as that oi polyninestor in shape and 



arkings except that segments 4 and 5 are not so swollen ; the head is 

 w instead of green, the crests on segments 4 and 5 are yellow, the 



