COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 297 



Kallima inachus, Boisduval, is the Leaf-Butterfly with the 

 broad orange band across the disc of the forewing one sees so 

 often in collections ; it conies from the lower elevations in the 

 Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikkim and is found in Orissa, the 

 Eastern Ghats, Pachmarhi, Assam, Burma and Tenasserim. Kal- 

 lima liorsjieldi is found in Western and Southern India from 

 Bombay southwards, Ceylon, Burma and Tenasserim". There are 

 two other species within British-Indian limits, more in the Indo- 

 Malayan Kegion. 



The foodplants of the larva of Kallima horsjieldi are of the 

 botanical family Acanthacece ; it has been found on several species 

 of the genus Strobilanthes, the commonest being S. callosus, Nees, 

 which covers the jungles on the Western Ghats as an undershrub 

 in many places for miles and miles. It is a plant growing to 20' 

 in height with a stem that may reach 2" in diameter but is 

 generally less, rough, longly elliptical leaves which are pointed 

 at one end and pink or bluish flowers with extremely sticky 

 bracts that appear every seven years, after which the whole plant 

 dies down. The flowers smell rather strongly but the scent is 

 not disagreeable, and all the jungle animals are perfumed with 

 it at such times from passing through the thickets. The plant 

 being so plentiful, it is not to be wondered at that the larvae are 

 not easy to find ; indeed, although the butterfly is very fairly 

 common, it is rare to meet with more than one or two caterpillars 

 during a whole year's wandering in the jungles where it exists. 



The specimen figured in the Plate is a male of the wet-season 

 form. The figure is fairly good though not bright enough ; there 

 is, as usual in these three-colour reproductions, too much red in it. 



63. Cethosia cyane, Drury. — Male upperside tawny, in fresh specimens a 

 rich reddish tawny. Forewing : anterior and apical two-thirds black, the 

 margin of this colour waved and irregular, following a line dividing the 

 cell longitudinally and circling round to near the posterior angle ; a short, 

 broad, oblique, white bar beyond apex of cell, the veins crossing it and a 

 spot in interspaces 3 and 4 black ; a transverse, indistinct row of small 

 spots and a terminal series of <-shaped lunules white. Hindwing : three or 

 four spots just beyond apex of cell, a subterminal row of spots and the 

 termen broadly black, the last with a series of white lunules as on the fore- 

 wing. Underside variegated with red, white, pale blue, ochraceous and 

 black ; the terminal margins of both wings broadly black with white 



