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the hottest hours of the morning, say about midday and from 1 2 to 

 2. It flies straighter than the other members of the genus except 

 the male of G. fausta ; it is really rather a powerful little insect. 

 It rarely rises any distance from the ground however, though it will 

 face large open spaces away from bushes much more readily that 

 6'. amata, etrida or eucharis. It is never found in the jungles and 

 regions of heavy rainfall ; it is plentiful in countries like Sind for 

 •example. The iarvas are, in common with all others of the genus, 

 very much parasitised by ichneumons, the pupa by flies ; a large 

 percentage dying from these causes. Males and females in the 

 butterfly stage are nearly equally plentiful where it occurs like 

 C. amata and unlike G. etrida, eucharis and fausta, of which, 

 generally speaking, the females are comparatively scarce. The 

 foodplants of the larva all belong to the Caper family ; it has been 

 bred on Gadaha indica, GaiJ-paris sefiaria and divaHcata • and will, 

 no doubt, feed upon any other; also on Mcerua arenaria. The 

 insect is found in Baluchistan, Sind, Western India, Southern 

 India and Ceylon. 



Upon a general survey of the species of Ixias, Colotis and Sebomoia 

 ■caterpillars and pupfe, there seems little doubt that the first two genera 

 have much in common and are very closely related — a fact that, besides, 

 seems evident from the general appearance and colouration in the imagines. 

 The piipge of Ixias and Colotis eucharis are very like each other. Colotis 

 dance and Hebonoia ylaucifpe larvse also somewhat resemble each other but, 

 perhaps, hardly sufficiently to indicate as close a relationship as between 

 Ixias and Colotis generally. 



Genus — Hebomoia. 



124. Hebomoia glaucippe. — (PI. J. figs. 66 S , 66«!5). — West-season brood. — 

 Male, ?<^2^e?'sicZe: creamy white. Fore wing : the costal margin narrowly, the 

 apex and terminal margin to middle of interspace 1, black; an irregular, 

 somewhat sinuous, black band extends obliquely from beyond the middle of 

 costa across the upper apex of the cell and meets, at interspace 1, the 

 black on the terminal margin ; within the triangle thus formed is 

 enclosed a rich, orange-red patch that is crossed by the black veins 

 and bears, in interspaces 3 to 6, a postdiscal series of black, inwardly- 

 elongated spots. Hindwing : nearly uniform, touched with black on the 

 terminal margin anteriorly and with a conspicuous, postdiscal black spot in 

 interspace 7 ; in some specimens one or two smaller spots in continuation of 

 the series in the interspaces below. Underside : white ; apical third of the 

 forewing and the whole of the hindwing mottled with more or less promi- 

 nent, brown strigse and spots ; costa of the forewing and a fine line that 

 runs from the base of the hindwing through the cell, straight to the middle 

 of the terminal margin, brown. Antennge dark brown ; head and thorax 

 anteriorly with reddish-brown pile ; thorax above greyish-blue, abdomen 

 white with a bluish tinge ; beneath : head and thorax more or less brownish, 

 abdomen white. Female : similar to the male. Upperside : ground-colour 

 with a slight greenish tinge ; the orange patch on forewing more restricted : 

 it consists of a series of broad streaks in interspaces 3 to 6 and 10, the outer 

 apices of which are deeply incised by black, and with a row of hastate, 

 ■orange spots beyond in interspaces 2 to 6. Hindwing : similar to the hind- 

 wing in the male, but with a postdiscal series of large, triangular, black 



