THE COMMON B UTTERFLIE8 OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA, 667 



a^. Larva with surface naked except for 

 a few smooth tubercles or marginal, 

 soft hairs. 



«■'. Larva with a few marginal hairs at 

 both ends. Color bright greenish 

 yellow with three electric-blue, 

 broad, longitudinal bands. Outline 

 that of a shoesole 

 ¥. Larva with a few marginal hair's 

 and sparse tubercles all over the 

 surface. Colour light and dark 

 greens 

 c'. Larva with no marginal hairs. 

 a^. Larva with surface dull, plain 



green 

 b^. Larva with surface shiny, cover- 

 ed with minute, smooth tubercles. 

 a? . Larva without a distinct waist 



in segments 9, 10 

 b"' . Larva with a distinct waist at 

 segments 9, 10. 



a'^. Larva covered with yellow 

 tubercles. Colour chocolate. 

 b^. Larva covered with white 

 tubercles. Colour green, red, 

 yellow and brown arranged 

 as the pattern in Tajuria 

 cippus . . 

 c^. Larva completely naked, 

 without tubercles 

 b^. Larva clothed with a dense covering 

 of tubercles and hairs ; no marginal 

 hairs. 



«'. Larva with clothing of minute, 

 erect, sharp hairs on a short, cup- 

 shaped base with indented margin. 

 Colour velvet pinkish 

 b'\ Larva with clothing of flat-topped, 

 circular, yellow, minute tubercles 

 interspersed with minute, spine-like, 

 red tubercles. Colour velvet 

 ' pinkish, a darker dorsal line ; when 

 about to pupate develops a dark- 

 green saddle at waist. Two small 

 tail-points 

 c\ Larva clothed with minute, curved, 

 thick-topped hairs with a longer, 

 subdorsal hair on segments 5 to 9 

 and a similar, curved one at each 

 lateral angle of the dorsal depres- 

 sion of segment 2. Colour that of 

 Zinaspa which it closely resembles. 



Amblypodia anita. 



Zinaspa todara. 



Tajuria jehana . 



Loxura atymnus 



Tajuria indra. 



Camena cleobis. 



Tajuria cippus. 



Pratapa deva. 



Ops melastigma^ 



querceto- 



Surendra 

 rum. 

 The clothing of all these larvee requires a fairly powerful lens as it is, in 

 most case, composed of very minute bodies. The star-shaped tubercles and 

 hair-tops especially are difhcult to see, the thick bases to the hairs and so 



