THE BVTTERFLIES OF THE NORTH CANARA tomTMCT* 4$ 



the open surface of a leaf ; the pupa is generally formed inside the cell % 

 it is covered with a white powder. The larva feeds on Bambusa 

 arundinacece, or on grasses — generally broad-leafed coarsish grasses. 



Group C. 

 The imagos of this group are very similar to those of the last in 

 shape ; they keep their wings folded over the hack when at rest ; often, 

 when hashing in the sun, they open the lower wings; they are all fond 

 of bright sunlight and are found basking ; they are of very rapid flight, 

 which flight is sustained frequently for a long time ; they are all 

 easily captured at flowers or when basking. The larva is, as in the 

 last group, cylindrical, with a flattened anal segment somewhat rounded 

 at the extremity ; the head is, however, here more or less round when 

 looked at from in front and slightly bi-lobech The colour of the larva 

 is some shade of green without transverse markings of any sort, with 

 one exception, namely, H. Jionorei, de Niceville, which has the larva 

 coloured red, yellow, and white. The pupa is similar in form to that 

 of the last group, being circular in transverse section, having large 

 expansions to the spiracles of segment 2, being unmarked by spots, 

 and fixed only by the tail in the cell (H. moorei, Watson, is an 

 exception in the latter respect, in that it is fixed neither by the tail 

 nor by a body-band, but lies quite free in the cell). The larva 

 changes in the cell to the pupa ; and feeds on bamboos and grasses ; 

 it makes its cell in a cylindrical shape by folding a leaf, generally 

 lengthways, but H. moorei folds the leaf transversely. 

 204. Baoris bada, Moore. 

 The insect is the commonest butterfly in the district, swarming 

 together with the H. subocJiracea, Moore, around and in every rice- 

 field at all seasons of the year when the rice is green, and around 

 flowers in the rains ; it is quick of flight, but is easily caught when 

 feeding on flowers. The larva is to be had in the rains in hundreds 

 in the rice-fields. We have bred great numbers of it. 



Larva. — As in the description of the group ; segment 12 slightly 

 swollen laterally round the spiracles ; anal segment somewhat narrow- 

 looking in consequence, sloping and applied close to the leaf, head 

 rough, on the surface finely and sparsely hairy, shiny, light yellow- 

 green in colour suffused with brown, a black brown marginal band of 

 varying width, a central band of the same colour splitting along the 



