COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 1155 



white hair ; there is a subspiracular fringe of rather long, fine, white 

 hairs which is, however, not very thick. Spiracles broadly round, not 

 large, light with a raised, shiny, thin, brown border. Colour of body 

 greenish ochreous, with a broad supraspiracular band mottled with white, 

 the region below it white enamelled with blotches of green, brown and 

 yeUow ; there is a dorsal, double green line. 



When the larva is full-grown it has the head very dark purplish with a 

 moderately large, rather narrowly triangular, greenish clypeus bordered 

 inside narrowly pvirple, outside broadly green ; surface of head shiny, 

 rough with many tubercles, mostly white, all rather small except a sub- 

 dorsal one just below vertex and a dorsolateral one about the same height 

 as the apex of clypeus and one near base which are larger and vitreous- 

 yellow ; all bear white hairs, the larger ones longer hairs than the rest ; 

 labrum, ligula, eyes and second antennal joint whitish ; basal antennal joint 

 green. Surface of body as in the last stage, the main tubercles perhaps 

 slightly less conspicuous, each bearing a short, brown, cylindrical hair hardly 

 longer than the numerous lesser white ones which are practically the same 

 as in the last stage also. Spiracles not large, flush, oval, light with a thin, 

 shiny, brownish, slightly raised border, those of segments 2 and 12 larger 

 than the rest. Colour much as in last stage, the purple band only dotted 

 with the little white tubercles ; the region below it greenish mottled 

 brown;"the base of prolegs purplish, the feet lobed, light greenish like 

 ventrum; the true legs the same with purple patch on basal part; the broad, 

 green-ochreous, dorsal colour finishes square at the hinder margin of seg- 

 ment 12 or nearly so. L : 35 mm.; B : 4mm. 



Twpa. — The pupa is somewhat of the type of the Aypias-hufhina lot 

 although the points are not quite so prominent and the dorsal parts of the 

 segments that bear them are not so flattened. The body is thickest at 

 middle; the 7th segment is swollen at the anterior margin very slightly 

 and runs out over spiracle laterally into a triangular, very prominent, 

 sharp tooth which is flattened above and below an.d curved up a good deal, 

 it bears the spiracle on its lower surface in its posterior basal angle ; the 

 thorax is carinated highly in its dorsal line and the apex of the carination, 

 a little behind the middle of thoracic length, is the highest part of pupa, 

 whence the dorsal line slopes anteriorly to segment 2 and posteriorly to 

 segment 6. The vertex of head is in a plane only slightly inclined towards 

 longitudinal axis of pupa, is short and with the eyes on each side is as 

 broad as segment 2 ; frons is produced out into a curved-up snout, from a 

 conical base as broad as half the breadth of front of pupa, soon thinning 

 to ^rd of that, then more or less parallel-sided, suddenly constricted 

 shortlyj before the blunt tip; this snout is as long as segment 2. Segment 

 2. is^carinated in dorsal line though much less than the thorax, is rather 

 convex transversely and has the front margin with a dorsal sinus, the hinder 



