THE BUTTERFLIES OF TEE NORTH CANAl^A DISTRICT, 391 



131. Zinaspa todara^ Moore. (No. 988.) 



This is a rare insect in Canara. We have found it occasionally in 

 the south of the district, above the ghats, in the hot and cold weather^ 

 and also in the Supa Petta in the north, where its larvos were found 

 in some abundance. They clearly show, what was surmised by Mr. 

 de Niceville, that this genus is hardly separable from Surendra. Th© 

 larva, which feeds on Acacia ccesia, a very nearly allied food to 

 that of S. qiiercetorum, Moore, is almost similar, differing only in the 

 third segment overhanging the second j the colour is exactly the 

 same, and the pupa is indistinguishable. 



132. Rapala schistacea, Moore. (No. 995.) 



This species is very common in the south of the district, and fairly so 

 near the close of the rains at Karwar, and also generally everywhere in 

 Canara. It is the only really common species of the genus here. 



We have reared the larva on the flowers of the common garden 

 creeper Quisqualis, and also on those of Acacia ccesia. 



It is shaped like the larva of Zinaspa, but has a subdorsal fleshy 

 tooth on each side of segments 3 to 10, as also a marginal tooth to 

 •each of these segments ; on the second segment there are two protu- 

 berances pointing forward ; the 11th and 12th segments have each a 

 lateral broad tooth, and the last is produced into a double tooth ; the 

 colour is of an almost uniform dark rose. 



The pupa is of the usual form, stout, and pink in colour, with 

 black blotchings. 



133. Rapala lankana, Moore. (No. 2^Q,^ 



This is a very local species. We have taken ?)dd specimens in the 

 south of the district, and seen others elsewhere, during the travelling 

 season, and we have taken many specimens at Karwar in the first 

 three months of the rains. There it is so local that nearly all our 

 specimens have been taken in a group of half a dozen bushes, not 

 occupying ten square yards, on the side of a road, and most were 

 sitting on the flowers of a single bush of Leea samhucina. Now this 

 plant is one of the commonest in the neighbourhood, and there were 

 hundreds within the nearest quarter of a mile ; and yet, though on one 

 morning we found and captured three perfect specimens sitting together 

 on one flower of this bush in one sweep of the net, and two more on 

 adjoining flower with the next sweep, a couple of hours' careful 



