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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE NORTH CANARA DISTRICT 



OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



Paet IV. 



By J. Davidson, T. R. Bell, and E. H. Aitken. 



(With Plates VII and VIII.) 



(Continued from Vol. X, page 584.) 



(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on, 



18th March, 1897.) 



Family HESPERIIDiE. 



The number of species of this family that we have observed in this 



district is 56. Most of them are fairly plentiful either in the larval 



state or as imagines, for some have been rarely seen on the wing, but 



have been bred from larvse in numbers, while others have been 



caught with the net in sufficient numbers to warrant the supposition 



that they are not uncommon in the localities where they occur, 



though their larvse have not been obtained ; of other species again, 



we have only succeeded in catching single specimens, as for example 



Isma submaculata, Staudinger, and Zographetus ogygia, Hewitson ; the 



former species is, we are informed by Mr. de Niceville, new to 



India, having been obtained hitherto only in the Philippine Islands 



and Sumatra. We have bred all but seven species out of the 56 ; all 



the lame, pupsc, sometimes also the egg, have been carefully described, 



and the food-plants and habits of the larvse noted. The larvse and 



pupae of eighteen species have been depicted in the plates accompanying 



this paper ; five others will be found in the plates of our former paper. 



The insects are numbered from 178 to 233, being a continuation of 



the consecutive numbers adopted in this paper up to the end of the 



Papilionidce. The names given to the butterflies are according to 



Captain E. Y. Watson's paper in Vol. IX of the Society's Journal, 



p. 411 (1895). 



The order followed by us is based upon the habits of the larva? 

 and upon analogies in the larval and pupal stages. According to the 

 habits of the larvae, i.e., to the nature of its food-plant, we have divided 

 the family into two large divisions, namely : — 



(I) Those whose larvse feed on dicotyledonous plants. 

 (II) Those whose larvse feed on monocotyledonous plants. 



