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ten o'clock, and, selecting a tree with bright shiny leaves, perches itself bolt upright 

 in the middle of a particular leaf, just a foot above the highest point you can reach 

 with your net. "Whether by accident or design, the position is fenced on all sides 

 with a creeper whose sharp curved thorns lay hold of everything that passes them, 

 and let go nothing. There the proud creature sits, chasing away any other butter- 

 fly that approaches, and returning to the same leaf. If you pelt it with stones, it 

 darts off, takes a short circuit and returns to the same leaf. You may pelt it for an 

 hour with the same result." 



Habits and Food Plant op Laeva, — Messrs. J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken 

 (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 278) gives the following :— 



"We reared three specimens of the larvae of this butterfly on Aglaia Boxburgh- 

 iana, a very common tree in Kanara, belonging to the Order Meliaceae. Among butter- 

 flies the length of the larval life seems to be generally proportioned to the robustness 

 of the insect in its perfect state, and, as might be expected, G. Imna is a Methuselah 

 among butterflies. One found on the 6th October, then evidently a few days old, 

 became a pupa on the 25th of November. The butterfly emerged on the 9th of 

 December. Like most smooth caterpillars, this species eats its skin when cast, but 

 not the head-case. When touched it appears to use its horns defensively, as does 

 also C. Athamas." 



The larva figured in Mr. Arthur Grote's drawing was taken " feeding on 

 Amoora Bohituka." 



Of our illustrations of this species on plate 169, fig. 1 is copied from Messrs. 

 Davidson and Aitken's drawing of the larva and pupa ; fig. la is from Mr. Grote's 

 drawing ; fig. lb is from a Khandalla male, and fig. Ic is from the type specimen 

 described by Mr. Butler, erroneously, as the female of C. Hindia. 



HARIDRA MARMAX (Plate 170, figs. 1, la, b, c, cj $ ). 



Charaxes Marmax, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entomology, p. 43, pL 21, ($ ? (1848). 



Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1865), p. 636. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), p. 831. De Niceville, 



Butt, of India, etc. ii. p. 281 (1886). 

 Charaxet Lunawara (male only), Butler, Lep. Exotica, p. 99, pi. 37, fig. c? (1872).* 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bright fulvous ; the costal area of hindwing palest. 

 Forewing with faint traces of three transverse slender sinuous dusky-fulvous lines 

 within the cell, two similar discal lines below the cell, beyond which is a discal line 

 and a less defined inner submarginal line, followed by a more distinct but diffused 

 submarginal line, which latter is somewhat blackish, and widens out at the costal 

 end, and is there apically joined to a marginal sinuous black band, the fulvous inter- 



• The type female, described erroneously as that sex of Lnnawara, is from the Philippines, and is 

 identical with C. Amyous, Felder. 



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