390 JOURNAL, B(i3IB AY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. X, 



129. Loxura afymnus, Cramer (No. 977)'=Loxura surya, 

 Moore. (No. 978.) 



We consider these species to be the same. The rains form exactly 

 agrees with the description of L. surya, Moore, the type specimen of 

 which came from this district ; while in the hot weather, the form foimd 

 is typical L. atymnus^ or, as far as we can make out, does not differ 

 from specimens of such sent us from other parts, of India. It is 

 common in Karwar, and in all the jungles along the coast, throughout 

 the early part and middle of the rains. Above the ghats, where we 

 have generally been during the greater part of the cold and hot seasons, 

 the butterfly is rare. 



The larva, which feeds on young shoots of Dloscorea, is of the wood- 

 louse shape, the back being raised and rounded -, the head is concealed, 

 and there is a small flat plate over the segment next the heady and 

 another on the anal segment. The colour is dull green, suffused with 

 pink (the colour of the young leaves on which it feeds) on both sides. 



The pupa, which is fastened along a leaf by tail and band, is blunt, 

 lengthened, and devoid of excrescences ; it is of a pale green colour, with 

 the edge of the wing-cases clearly marked with pinkish-purple. 

 130. Deudorix epijarhas^ Moore. (No. 986.) 



This butterfly, which is in habits, both imago and in the earlier 

 stages, very closely allied to Viracliola, and whose underside is almost 

 similar, is rather rare throughout the district. We have, however^ 

 taken it in the neighbourhood of Karwar, and in a good many places 

 below the ghats. It lays its eggs on the outside of the pods of 

 Cinnarus ritchiei, and the larva, on coming out of the egg, enters the 

 pod at the edge of tlj;e stalk, thereby leaving no trace. It feeds on the 

 soft inside, only coming out when that is finished to enter another pod. 



It is of the usual lycsenid shape, but from above looks more like a large 

 maggot : the head is very small, the segments well defined, gradually 

 increasing in width to the fourth, and with the sides edged with 

 minute hairs. It has a large plate covering the anal segment and that 

 adjoining it. Its colour is a dull green, marked with indistinct browny 

 with the exception of the second and third segments, which are yellow, 

 the second segment having two small black spots on the back. 



The pupa, which is formed inside the fruit, is rather narrow, and 

 without any protuberances ; it is of a rough texture and of a reddish- 

 brown colour, mottled with darker brown. 



The larva and pupa are figured on Plate V, figures 9 and 9a. 



