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a. Upperside : ground-colour dark brown ; the . 

 underside : variegated inside a postmedial, 

 white band profusely with white and black 



lines on an orange ground . . ... . . Rathinda. (31), 



b. Upperside : ground-colour blue or brown 

 (brown only in one species : Horaga viola, 

 Moore). 



a^. Underside, fore wing : brownish-yellow 



with a broad, white, transverse, discal 



fascia to both wings Horaga. (33) 



6^ Underside, fore wing : with no fascia ; 



wings traversed by bands, complete 



or broken. 



a. Underside : the bands edged with silver, . Catapacilma. (32) 



b. Underside : the bands edge with white. . . , Zezius female. (23) 

 This section G contains butterflies with the lobe to 



the hind wing very small or entirely wanting ; it is 

 easily distinguishable in Zezius, is very small in Horaga 

 and is quite negligible in Rathinda and Catapoecihna. 

 The male of Zezius with only two tails is in E of this 

 key. 



1. Genus — Neopiihecops. 



Only one species, dark purplish-brown ; paler on 

 the disc ; sometimes, in the dry season, with white, 

 discal patch ; underside white, with black markings. 

 Size : 0.6" to 1.1" zalmora. 



The larva is normal, green in colour ; the pupa 

 normal, green or pinkish-brown blotched darker. Food- 

 plant : Murraya pentaphylla of the Rutacem ; feeding 

 upon the flowers generally ; larva attended by ants. 



2. Genus — Spalgis. 



One species only. Colour dull brown, darker to- 

 wards apex, generally with a white patch on disc of 

 fore wing ; underside grey-brown with many darker 

 strigee. Size : 0'8" to 1.3" epius. 



The larva and pupa are normal in shape but the 

 larva covers itself over with the dry skins and cottony 

 fluff of the Coccidce. or scale insects among which it 

 lives and upon which it feeds ; it is one of the very 

 few insectivorous larvee known amongst the butter- 

 flies in India ; it is certainly the only one known that 

 will under no circumstances eat vegetable food. 



3. Genus — Megisba. 



Contains only one species, in appearance very like 

 Neopithecops zalmora. Size : 0.9" to 1'3" malaya. 



The larva and pupa are unknown as is also the 

 foodplant. 



4. Genus — Lxcjiiisropsis. 



There are five species occurring which may be met 

 with in the Plains or hill stations of the Bombay 

 Presidency. The commonest by far, however, is puspa. 



A. Undersides in both sexes with the markings 

 thin or small. 



