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foodplant, sometimes even on a dead stick close by it ; a favour- 

 ite place is the top of a thorn. The caterpillar always lies in 

 the centre of the upperside of a leaf, of a young one when 

 very small, of an old one when full grown, clothing the surface 

 with a covering of glistening silk for its bed. ' The pupa is 

 formed on the upperside of a leaf, sometimes on the underside 

 also, upon a perpendicular surface as that of a tree-trunk or 

 stone, or anywhere else that is convenient. It is fixed firmly 

 by the tail to a pad made by the larva and the body-string is 

 short, so that the ventrum of the chrysalis touches the surface 

 of suspension. The perfect insect emerges in about ten days 

 and remains quiescent for several hours afterwards if left un- 

 disturbed. It is a fairly active butterfly once it gets on the 

 wing, flies fast and fairly strongly in, generally, a more or less 

 straight line, is fond of the sun and likes open spaces in the 

 vicinity, however, of vegetation. It is frequently found at flow- 

 ers, often rests on the ground or on the upperside of a leaf or 

 a blade of grass low down near the ground and hardly ever 

 rises any distance from the earth. When at rest the wings are 

 closed over the back, the front ones drawn into the hinder 

 ones; but sometimes it sits in the sun with them half open. 

 It is not difiicult to catch with a net. The foodplants of the 

 larva are all capers and it has been bred upon Gapparis sphylla, 

 G. sefiaria, G. heyneana, and G. homda ; it will probably eat any 

 caper. These foodplants being found in all sorts of country, 

 dry, wet, open, jungle-covered ; the butterfly also exists there. 

 It is distributed over the N. W. Himalayas, up to 4,000 feet ; 

 Nepal ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Bengal ; Central, Western and South- 

 ern India ; Ceylon. 



97. Huphina remba, Moore.— Wet-season brood.— S . Upperside: ground 

 colour white. Forewing : outer half from the middle of costa obliquely, to 

 before the tornal angle, intense black, the base with a bluish shade. Hind- 

 wing : base, terminal margin broadly below vein 5 and costal margin above 

 vein 6, irrorated with black scales ; termen anteriorly from apex to vein 4 

 decreasingly black. Underside: white, costal margin and apex broadly 

 suffused with greenish-yellow ; a large, prominent, bright yellow, preapi- 

 cal spot, below which is a larger, black, irregular patch, angulated at, 

 and touching, the lower apex of cell. Hindwing : greenish-yellow, the 

 veins black ; a dense irroration of scales across the middle of wing, its 

 anterior margins sharply defined and extended from costa through cell to 

 vein 1; the lower discal and tornal areas less densely covered with the 

 irrorated black scaling ; a bright, greenish-yellow, irregular spot in middle 

 of interspace 6. Antennae dark brown ; head and thorax anteriorly with 

 greenish-yellow pile ; thorax medially and posteriorly with long, bluish-grey 

 hairs ; abdomen black ; beneath : palpi and thorax yellow, abdomen white. 

 $ . Upperside : dark brownish black. Forewing : base of cell and upper 

 basal half of interspace 1 white, densely irrorated with black scales ; the 

 apical half of cell, base of interspace 3, basal two-thiirds of interspace 2, a 

 subterminal, large, round spot in interspace 1 and a pretornal, short stripe 

 on the dorsum, white. Hindwing : a more or less triangular, central area 



