THE BUTTERFLIES OF TEE NORTE CANARA DISTRICT. 247 



during the dry-season. This butterfly is certainly "protected," like 

 the Danaince, by an offensive smell and taste. 



Subfamily Ntmphalin^, 

 24. Ergolis tabrohana, Westwood. 



This is one of the commonest butterflies in the district, frequenting 

 forest rather than cultivated places or open plains. In our former 

 paper, p. 269, nn. 10, 11, we described the larva as undistinguishable 

 from that of E. ariadne, Linnseus. They both feed on Tragia involu^ 

 crata, a creeper "with stinging leaves, and both butterflies have 

 emerged from one lot of larv^ in our cages which might easily have 

 been taken to belong to a single brood. In form there was no 

 diff'erence, and the colour we thought was too variable to have any 

 significance, ranging from pale green, with or without brown lines, to 

 black, with a broad dorsal stripe of pure white. This year, however, 

 we bred a larger number, and carefully separated the black larvae 

 from those in which the ground-colour was green, and found that the 

 former produced E. ariadne^ Linnssus, and the latter E. taprobana. 

 25. E. ariadne^ Linnaeus. 



This is not nearly so common in Canara as the last. See remarks 

 above. 



26. Byblia ilitkt/ia, Drury. 



Mr. Blathwayt, the late Collector of Canara, had one specimen of 

 this which was said to have been caught near to Karwar, but we have 

 never met with it in the district. See our former paper, p. 269, n. 12. 

 27. Euripus consimilis, Westwood. 



Decidedly a scarce butterfly. All our males have been caught on the 

 tops of high hills, where they come to bask in the sun, from 

 September to October and onwards. The few females we have secured 

 have been met with in low ground at the foot of the hills. We 

 have got them in September, December, and February. In all our 

 specimens of both sexes the ground-colour is pure white. 



28. Cupha placida, Moore. Plate III, Figs. 3, 3a. 



Very common wherever the country is fairly well wooded, and 

 more abundant in the dry-season than during the rains. In habits this 

 butterfly is very like Atella phalantha, Drury, flitting restlessly from 

 bush to bush, and keeping its wings in motion even when it alights. 

 The larva, which feeds on the sanje plant as that species {Flacourtia), 





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