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biocciilatus," the latter is most probably that of Gamma cleobis. The pupa of 

 Simiskina phalena,H.e-witson(=3fassagahartertii, Doherty), also hangs free, 

 as does that of Spalgis epius, Westwood, as has recently been shewn in the 

 pages of this Journal, vol. viii, p. 485, pi. A (1894), by Mr. E. H. Aitken. 



C. cleobis is found at Masuri in the Western Himalayas, at Bolah&t in the 

 Malda district, at Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri, Calcutta, Sibsagar in Upper Assam, in 

 the Chin-Lushai Hills, in the Euby Mines district of Upper Burma, and in the 

 Nilgiri Hills. 



Calcutta, 20th August, 1894. 



IX.— LIFE HISTORY OF KALLIMA INACHUS, BOISDUVAL, 

 A NYMPHALINE BUTTERFLY. 



August 22nd, 1894.— Saw seven ova laid in the Bhutan Hills at 1,800 feet 

 elevation on the leaves of different plants of Giradinia heterophylla, Ferns, 

 Polygonum orientalis, and Strobilanthes capitatus, T. Anderson. Eggs not parti* 

 cularly large for so large a butterfly. Colour dark green, round, ribbed verti- 

 cally with creamy-yellow. August 27th — 29th. Larvae emerged. The food-plant 

 is like that of Precis iphita, Cramer. Head black and shining. Body dark 

 brown, shiny, with two dorsal and two lateral rows of warts, each wart bearing 

 a stiff black hair, the anterior warts bearing three hairs. These are real hairs 

 not spines, as appears clearly under a microscope. Head not hairy. Larvae 

 grow very fast at this stage, and feed on the Strobilanthes capitatus. 



31st August.— First moult. Verticillate spines now appear instead of hairs ; 

 also two long spines on the head, which did not exist in the first stage. Colour 

 shiny black. Larva almost exactly resembles that of Pareba vesta, Fabricius, for 

 whicKdoubtless they have been taken, thereby remaining undiscovered until now. 



3rd September. — Second moult. Spines on second segment very short and 

 small ; both subdorsal series of spines yellowish-buff at the base ; a dorsal 

 row of spines from the 5th segment, shorter than the subdorsal ones, not 

 yellowish-buff at the base ; two last segments with a transparent appearance. 



8th September. — Third moult. Same as second. Spines long and eleven in 

 number ; bases of subdorsal spines orange-yellow ; the second out of line ; 

 dorsal and two lateral rows of spines long, two small spines just above the legs 

 on each side. When the skin is just shed, the spines are very short, and the 

 larva combs them out with its mandibles and anterior legs. The long spines 

 on the head are truncated, and grow in much the same way as do a butterfly's 



