176 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIIL 



No. XXXVII.— NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES. 



Tapilio nomius, Esper. — Mr. T. R. Bell, writing about this butterfly, at page 

 755 of Vol. XXI of this Journal, gives its foodplant as Saccopetalmn 

 tomentosum and quotes Dr. K. Jordan as saying that Polyalthia longifolia 

 is eaten by the larvse also. It may be of interest to know that I have 

 recently found this butterfly breeding on this latter tree. About the first 

 of this month, I noticed a female of P. nomius depositing eggs all over a 

 large tree of P. longifolia which was coming into new leaf. I secured a 

 fresh sprout -with an egg on it and ptit it in water in a breeding-box. The 

 sprout withered, however, and I did not attempt to get more eggs. On the 

 4th instant I got two caterpillars on the same tree, and the next day got a 

 third caterpillar, I could, no doubt, have got many more if I had tried, but 

 in view of Mr. Bell's statement that the great majority of the chrysalides lie 

 over for ten months or more until the following year, I remained satisfied 

 with the three larvte I had got. These pupated within 2 or 3 days of my 

 putting them into the box. On 15th instant one butterfly emerged and on 

 the 17th the other two — all three perfect specimens. The unusual spell of 

 stormy weather, which we are experiencing just now in what should ordi- 

 narily be a really hot month is, no doubt, responsible for all 8 pupae 

 "hatching out" so quickly. 



Junonia almana, Linn. — On 14th instant, my Collector brought me in a 

 perfect specimen of the west season form of this butterfly, the result, no 

 doubt, of the present strange weather. 



W. M. CRAWFORD, 



Sambalpur, 2Qth April 1914. 



No. XXXVIII.- NOTES ON CUTCH AMMONITES. 



No. V. 

 East of Ler. 



In No. IV, while describing the East curve of the Ler-Hamundra Ellipse, 

 I mentioned the fact that the outcrop of the Katrol-to-Anceps beds swings 

 round to the East, dipping outwards for a short distance only to rise again 

 as the flanking of another Ellipse to the East of Ler. I propose to sketch 

 the ground just East and South-East of Ler in this latter-ground which 

 though small in extent produces an enormous quantity of specimens well 

 worth study. 



This diagram shows how the ground lies : — 



Fig I. i 



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P/s/n. 

 f\'/7ite 

 Sand- 

 stone. 



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1 = Outcrop of Suh -A/iceps beefs. 



2 - = ~ Anceps " 

 5 = = = At/j/eta 



4 = = = DAosa Oo///e - 

 J"= = = Kafro/ 



