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forms are as diflferent as Junonia asterie^ Linaseus, and J. almana^ 

 Linnseus. The former is small, dark, green-tinted above and faintly 

 ocellated on the underside, with the apex of the forewing scarcely 

 produced at all. The latter is large, pale on the upperside, very vari- 

 able on the underside, but without a trace of ocellation^ and has the 

 apex produced into a point which is sometimes quite a quarter of an 

 inch in length. Hyaline marks may be present in either form. The 

 butterfly is very common, especially during July and August, among 

 " karvi " (Strobilanthes)^ on which its larva feeds, but is more difficult 

 to catch than most owing to the swiftness of its flight and its habits of 

 always resting on the trunk of a tree (head downwards) in situations 

 in which a net is not easily manoeuvred. No butterfly, however, is 

 more easily seduced with liquor. It flies in the day, but keeps out 

 of the sun. We described the larva and pupa in our former pajier, 

 p. 277, n. 37, and figure them now. 



63. DolescJiallia poUhete, Cramer. Plate III, Figs. 2, 2a. 



From August onwards the males of this species may be found 

 basking on the hill tops, but we very rarely see a female, and all our 

 specimens of that sex were bred. We have found eggs and larva 

 in September and October on a species of Eranthemum, which 

 belongs to the same natural order, be it noticed, as the food-plants of 

 all the Junonias and Kallima. The eggs are laid in batches, and the 

 larvae are gregarious. Both larva and pupa are described by de Nice- 

 ville. We figure them however. 



64. Charaxes schreiberij Godart. 



This splendid species is certainly one of our rarest and most beautiful 

 butterflies. The males have the habit, common to all the genus, of 

 basking during the hottest hours of ^;ne day on chosen trees about 

 certain rocky peaks, and as one of these basking points lies within a 

 few miles of Karwar, we have secured a certain number of speci- 

 mens, mostly much broken. But females cannot be got in this way. 

 The larva feeds on " wagati " {Wagatea spicata)^ but this plant is 

 much commoner than C. schreiheri, and is, moreover, so villainously 

 thorny that the chance of finding larvse is not proportionate to 

 the travail of looking for them. What might we not have achieved if 

 the hours spent in perusing the leaves of wagati had been devoted to 

 some useful work ! As if this were not enough,, the creature has aii 



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