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The pupa is of the usual form, narrow, green, with a slightly darker 

 line dorsally, and with brown edges to the wing-covers. 



77. Zizera gaika, Trimen. (No. 702.) 



This is a common species in long grass and in scrubby jungle, all 

 along the coast during the cold weather. It is also found commonly 

 above the gh^fts in similar places. We have bred the larva commonly 

 above the ghats on the flowers of Nelsonia . It was of the usual wood- 

 louse form, but narrower than Z. lysimon^ Hiibner ; segments well 

 marked and covered with dense black bristles ; colour transparent green 

 with a subdorsal white stripe, and a red dorsal blotch on each segment. 

 Pupa green, very slender, thickest in the centre, anal end very narrow, 

 rounded ; thorax only slightly humped, covered with thin, longish, 

 white hairs. 



78. Zizera otis, Fabricius. (No„ 703.) 



This is another species found in the cold weather in great numbers in 

 similar places to Z. lysimon.^ Hiibner. We have never found the larva. 



79. Lyccenestlies emolus, Godart. (No. 711.) 



This butterfly is fairly generally distributed above and below tlie 

 ghats, but, as far as we have been able to judge, is only found near water, 

 and is very local. We have taken it commonly in one locality near 

 Karwar in the early rains, also in the Kumta taluka, and in the Supa 

 petta. We reared considerable numbers of the larvse. They are very 

 similar in shape and marking to ArhopaJa described hereafter, but 

 with a small shiny green head. The colour is dark rose, or grass- 

 green, the margins of the second and anal segments being slightly 

 hairy, segments corrFgated on the sides. 



The pupa is of the ordinary lyca3nid shape, largest and thickest at 

 the thorax, anal segment hoof-shaped. The colour varies from dusky 

 pink to grass-green ; on the back of the thorax there is a light diamond- 

 shaped mark. The larva feeds on Saraca indica and on Comhrehun 

 extensnm, and is looked after by red ants. Both larvo3 and pupa3 

 are o-regarious. 



80. Lyccenestlies lyccenina, Felder. (No. 712.) 



This species is less common than the last, and we have only found 

 it in the Siddapur taluka, along the 18 miles of road from the river at 

 old Gairsoppa to the famous falls of the same name, and at Ulvi in 

 the Supa petta » 



