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feeds on grass and is of the usual satyrine castj fusiform, with trans- 

 versely rugose surface and two pointed processes on the last segment, but 

 the usual horns on the head are represented in this species by two small 

 tubercles, each surmounted by a single bristle. The colour is pale pinkish, 

 with darker longitudinal strias, forming to the naked eye a dorsal band 

 or stripe, and a broader darker lateral one with a pale line under it ; 

 but the colour is probably variable. The pupa is more slender than 

 that of Mycalesis or Melanitis, and is distinguished from them also 

 by two prominent dorsal ridges. The colour is mottled brown or 

 greenish. . 



16. Y. huebnerij Kir by. 



As common as the last and at the same season, but its first appearance 

 after the monsoon is a little later. It seems absurd in nature to keep 

 up two butterflies so like each other in every way. One would do.. 

 The larva of this also feeds on grass and is very like that of Y.philomela^ 

 Johansson . The pupa is also very like, but wants the pronounced 

 dorsal ridges. 



17. Zipoetis saitis^ Hewitson. Plate I, Figs. 4, 4a. 



We have met with this only at three places on the ascent of the 

 ghauts. It appears late in the evening. We were fortunate enough 

 last September to get the larva on a species of bamboo with large leaves. 

 It is very like, that of M. 7nineus^ Linnaeus, but the head is not so 

 distinctly marked off from the neck, the horns point forward, and the 

 caudal processes are longer. Wheij youngj the larvae were green with 

 brown heads, but after the last moult the colour became brown. Tight on 

 the back and darker on the sides, with an ill-defined dusty dividing 

 line, and a dorsal row of dark spots with diverging dusky lines. The 

 pupa is more like that of the genus, Jmionia than the Satyrince gene- 

 rally, having three or four pairs of small .tubercles on the abdominal 

 segments, a slight lateral expansion of the wing-cases, and a hump on 

 the thorax; colour vitreous or whitey-brown. 



18. Melanitis ismene, Cramer. 



As common in this district as elsewhere. The monsoon form begins 

 to appear about the end of May and lasts till the end of September. 

 In October we have got both forms (the dry- and the wet-season) 

 promiscuously from what seemed to be one brood of larvae. Larvae 

 are plentiful throughout the year, or nearly so, feeding chiefly on rice, 



