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37. J. hierta, Fabricius. 



Pretty common in open country, but absent during the monsoon. 

 See our former paper, p. 272, n. 22. 



38. J. orithyia, Linnseus. 



This species likes stony plains and bare hills, and is consequently 

 comparatively rare in Canara, and altogether wanting during the 

 monsoon. It rests always on the ground. See our former paper, 

 p. 272, n. 23. 



39. J. atlites, Linn^us. 

 This is not so widely distributed as the last four species, but is 

 fairly common on the Canara coast about rice -fields, chiefly at the 

 . end of the rains. It occurs also above the ghauts. The larva is coloured 

 more distinctively than the others, being dull smoky black, with a 

 well-defined orange-brown stripe above the legs. The pupa is of a 

 uniform slatey colour. 



40. Neptis hordoniay Stoll. Plate II, Figs. 1, la and lb. 

 This is very common in all the more open wooded or scrubby 

 parts of the district during the latter half of the rainy season and 

 throughout the dry months. During June and July it is rarely seen. 

 The larva may be found on several species of Acacia and Alhizzia^ 

 and has the curious habit of feeding by preference, not on green leaves, 

 but on those which it has caused to wither. The trees on which it feeds 

 have all bi-pinnate leaves with minute leaflets. It bites through one 

 or two pinnee, which immediately droop and dry up, but are kept from 

 fiilling by a few threads of silk with which the larva has taken the 

 precaution to attach them to the central leaf-stalk. Thenceforth it 

 lives among them and feeds entirely on them. The larva has two forms. 

 In the first (fig. 1^) the head is large and roughly triangular. The seg- 

 ments of the body increase to the fourth and then diminish gradually, 

 and the third, fourth, sixth and twelfth have each two obtuse dorsal 

 points. The forepart, from the fourth segment, is generally inclined 

 downwards at an angle with the rest of the body, and is, with the 

 nnderparts, of a dark greenish-brown colour. The rest is just that 

 shade of greenish-grey which the leaves assume when withered, and is 

 crossed by diagonal dark bands exactly representing the spaces between 

 the leaflets as a painter would paint them — a most perfect disguise. 

 The second form (fig. la) of the larva differs in having the head furcate, 



