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48. H, misippus, LiniiEeus. 



This species affects more open country than the last, and is, perhaps 

 for that reason, not nearly so common in Canara. During the rainy 

 season we have never seen it, but it begins to appear in September or 

 October, and continues till about the end of the year. We have twice 

 met with the form of female which wants the black on the apes of the 

 forewing bearing an oblique white band, and has been supposed to 

 mimic Danais Jdugii, Butler. The larva differs little from the last. 

 We have never reared it in Canara. In other districts we have found 

 it on Portulacca oleracea. See our former paper, p. 274, n. 28. 

 49. Partlienos virens, Moore. 



This is not by any means a rare butterfly in forest country, especially 

 towards the end of the rainy season. Its grand spread of wing and 

 bold flight always arrest attention. The manner of its flight is the 

 same as that of Limenhisj Athyma, and some other genera, a jerky 

 stroke at short intervals between which the wings are held stiffly 

 outstretched and pointing a little downwards, but those genera lack 

 the power of Partlienos. Sometimes a solitary one is met with 

 travelling across open plains, but we do not know that it migrates. 

 We described and figured the larva and pupa in our former paper 

 (p. 274, n. 29). It feeds on a creeper belonging, we believe, to the 

 Cucurhitacece. 



50. Limenifis procris, Cramer. Plate II, Figs. 3, 3a. 



This beautiful species is pretty common during the rains and even 

 in the dry-season in open forest. It flies like the last, and rests, like 

 it, with wings open on the upperside of a leaf. We do not mean that 

 it sleeps in this position : probably it does not. We described the 

 larva in our last paper (p. 274, n. SO) as feeding on Mussoenda 

 frondosa. We have since found it oftener on Wendlandia exserta, 

 another plant of the same order. 



51. Athyma peonus, Linnaeus, 



This species, which is plentiful further north, is the least common 

 of the genus on the Canara coast. It appears, like them all, during 

 the latter part of the rainy season and probably for some time after, if 

 it does not last till May. It is more like a Neptis in its ways than 

 the three which follow. It feeds commonly on Glockidion lanceolatum 



