TttE BUTTERFLIES OF TRE NORTH CANARA DISTRICT. 57 



222. Baoris conjuncta, Herrich-Schaffer. 



Uncommon in the early rains below the ghats ; at the end of the 

 rains, and throughout the cold season, though plentiful enough at 

 times, it cannot be said to be common. The butterfly is fond of 

 settling on the ground and on stones ; it is a very fast flier, but 

 generally returns to the same spot, like all the following species of 

 this group, when disturbed ; it makes a very audible fluttering noise 

 with its wings when flying ; it is most plentiful in the vicinity of 

 water. This butterfly is perhaps better known in India as Parnara 

 narrooa, Moore. 



Larva. — As in the group ; head white with a black line from the 

 apex to the base of the clypeus ; a large round black spot near the top 

 of each lobe and another near the base ; these spots may be coalescent 

 and the face suffused with black in the lower portion in the monsoon 

 specimens ; the colour of the body is white tinged with blue and 

 yellow, punctuated finely with dark green, and clothed with fine, 

 erect, white, minute hairs. Length 50 mm. 



Pupa. — -As in the description of the group ; snout long, pointed ; 

 proboscis produced to the end of the cremaster ; colour green, with a 

 subdorsal and lateral white band. Length 36 mm. over all. 



Habits. — As described for the group ; larva generally lives in a laxly 

 closed cell ; egg dome-shaped, broadest just above the base, more or 

 less smooth ; larva feeds on long grasses, also on Zen mats. 



223. Baoris oceia, Hewitson. (Plate VII, Fig. 6.) 



This butterfly being so like the next, we did not distinguish it for 

 a long time, and consequently did not know it existed in the 

 district until we bred it. Since breeding it, however, and thereby be- 

 coming aware of its existence, we have caught many males basking on 

 bamboo leaves, in the beds of nallas, in shady places where little spots 

 of sunshine came through, with Baoris canaraica, Moore, up till 9 

 o'clock in the morning and for a short time before sundown ; it retires 

 when the sun is hot. We bred specimens below the ghats and above the 

 ghats in the monsoon and in the dry weather ; the larva is always much 

 ichneumoned. The butterfly always returns to the same leaf when 

 disturbed ; can be caught between one's finger and thumb when sit- 

 ting ; and has a strong flight. The females, probably on account of 

 their not being found basking, are difficult to obtain. 



