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the segments are well defined, giving the back and sides a serrated 

 outline ; the colour is an oily yellow with a broad, dorsal, electric 

 blue line (a colour it is impossible to paint), not extending to the last 

 segment, a subdorsal lino on each side of a similar colour, but narrow- 

 er, and not extending to the last two segments, and a similar lateral 

 narrower line : head small and of a clear transparent brown devoid of 

 markings. The second segment projects and is cloven in the middle, 

 acting as a shield to the head ; the legs, feet, and lower parts are 

 yellowish-green. It feeds on young shoots of Olax scandens, Rox. 



The pupa is thick, broad, and of a rough texture i it has no protuber- 

 ances, and is fixed by the tail (which is short and broad) along a leaf, 

 the thoracic band being very fine ; in colour it is of a whitish-brown, 

 slightly tinged with purple. It has two faint, interrupted bands 

 extending from the tail obliquely to the thorax ; it is also mottled with 

 brown round the thorax. The larva and pupa appear on Plate IV, 

 figures 5 and 5a. 



103, Iraata timoleon, Stoll. (No. 775.) 



A common butterfly at Karwar, and along the coast as far south as 

 Kumta. Elsewhere we have no record of having observed it. We 

 have taken it at all seasons, ic being most decidedly one of the 

 " basking " blues. The larva, which feeds on young shoots of the 

 various fig-trees, has been described, with the pupa, in our former 

 paper. We figure them now on Plate IV, figures 6 and 6a. 

 104. Surendra quercetorum^ Moore. (No, 778.) 



This is a rare butterfly everywhere. We have taken it in Karwar 

 during the rains, and at Gairsoppa and Kutgiil, both jungly places 

 below the ghats. Above the ghats in the Supa petta it is also sparsely- 

 distributed. 



Larva onisciform, anal segments flattened ; slightly ridged along the 

 back ; head concealed by a plate, which is distinctly separated from the 

 next segment, colour light green, with a broad pink band in the 

 middle of the back, centered by a dark green line, a pink lateral band 

 above the legs on each side, the sides banded obliquely with alternate 

 bands of very light and dark green. It feeds on the young thorny 

 shoots of Acacia pennata^ Willd. 



Pupa fastened only by the tail, short and stout, with the head slightly 

 ^^^inted and the thorax higher than the abdomen ; it is of an almost 



