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or turn into a pupa, if there is a nearly full grown Zesius abont. 

 He will be devoured in preference to any amount of tender leavea. 

 Like the Arhopalas, Zesius is attended by red ants, and possibly one 

 of their uses may be to restrain his cannibal habits. The larva and 

 pupa are figured on Plate IV, figures 10 and 10a. 



114. Camena cippUs, Fabricius. (No» 893.) 



We have only taken this butterfly in the neighbourhood of Karwar, 

 where the males are common on sunny days on the tops of the hills. 

 All the males of the genus Camena have the habit of basking on trees 

 on the very highest peaks, and on a fine day specimens of the three 

 kinds we find in Canara will almost certainly be taken. The first to 

 appear is C. deva^ Moore, which is generally basking by 10 o'clock ; in 

 another hour'and-a-half its place will be taken by this species, and late 

 in the afternoon, about two o'clock, C. cleohis, Godart, appears. Of these 

 C. cippus is the commonest, and C. cleohis the most scarce. Females 

 of C. cippus are however rare, and we have only caught two specimens. 

 They do not seem to have been described. They are larger than the 

 males, and want the bright silver underside, being of a light copper 

 colour ; all the lines of the male are however accurately reproduced ; 

 on the hindwing on the underside the space between the linear 

 band and the margin of the wing is a good deal suffused with white. 

 Above, the female is similar to the male, but the brilliant dark 

 metallic blue is replaced by a pale, but still slightly metallicj blue. 



We have failed as yet to discover the caterpillar. 



115. Camena deva^ Moore. (No. 895.) 



We have found this butterfly fairly abundant in Karwar during 

 the rains, and also noticed it occasionally at other places and times 

 throughout the district. These have, however, always been males, 

 and all the females we have obtained have been by breeding. Out 

 of some fifty reared, the majority have fortunately been females. 



The larva, which feeds on the small velvety Loranthus {L. tomentosus\ 

 resembles in an extraordinary way the leaf of the food-plant, so much 

 so that we have had to examine the plant again and again before the 

 caterpillars had all been found when changing their food. It is of a 

 woodlouse form, but with a distinct sharp ridge on the back, making 

 a section almost triangular. When it is extended or bent, the segments 

 are widely divided from one another. The texture is velvety, i&tr 



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