and head most closely and thickly dotted with raised black spots, giving the larva 

 a rugose appearance ; abdomen pale green, slightly dotted with black. Legs green. 

 Head green, and very round in front. Stigmata black, circled with green. After 

 last moult. Length 1 inch. Cylindrical, as after first moult, though a little 

 darker. Feeds on Cassia occidentalis. Habits sluggish. Changed into chrysalis on 

 August 2Sth. Pupa. — Green ; angles marked with yellow lines. 



Imago. — Emerged on September 5th. Very common in Lucknow " (Capt. 

 H. L. Chaumette. MS. Notes, 1860). 



Messrs. Davidson and Aitken, in their " Notes on the Butterflies of the N. 

 Kanara District of Bombay, describe the larva as being " long, somewhat depressed, 

 rough, green, with a white lateral line, and above it a black line, more or less con- 

 spicuous, formed by minute, flat, shining, black tubercles, being like a big specimen 

 of Terias Hecabe. The pupa is much stouter, and the keel formed by the wing 

 cases is much less pronounced. The normal colour is pale green, with a yellow 

 lateral line. We have never found it on any plant except Cassia occidentalis. It 

 habitually rests on the upperside, along the midrib, like almost all Pierine larvaj. 



DiSTKiBUTiON, Habits, &c. — In the N.W. Himalayas this species was taken by 

 Capt. A. M. Lang, and also in the Plains. " Larva reared on Cassia Tora" (Bnt. Mo. 

 Mag. 1864, 103). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records it as " not very common in 

 Masuri during the rains, the dry-season form, Gnoma, even less so. In the 

 Dehra Dun both forms are common in their respective seasons. The larva feeds 

 in the Dun, on Caosia Tora, N. 0. Leguminosa3 " (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, 586). 

 Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at " Bagheswar, Kali Valley, up to Dharchula, 2,000 to 

 4,000 feet, Kumaon " (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 135). Col. C. Swinhoe records 

 Pyranthe as being "common in Mhow, Central India, all the year round, and 

 Philippina from September to April" (P. Z. S. 1886,432). Col. Swinhoe also 

 records " a few specimens of Pyranthe from Karachi, taken in March, May, June, 

 and December; Thisorella being common from March to May, and Philippina from 

 September to January" [I.e. 1884, 511), and "Pyranthe also common everywhere 

 in Bombay and the Deccan, all the year round ; Thisorella at Poona from November 

 to June, Ahmednuggur, October to November; Ilea at Poona from November to 

 June, Ahmednuggur, Sept. and October; and Philippina at Poona from October 

 to Api'il, Ahmednuggur, November ; and Bombay, March, July, and October " 

 {I.e. 1885, 139) ; in Karachi. "Pyranthe was common from May to August, Ilea, 

 May and June ; and Philippina from Sept. to January " {id. J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 

 1887, 279). 



Messrs. J. Davidson and B. H. Aitken obtained and described the larva, 

 as found in the Kanara District of Bombay. " The buttei-fly being common every- 

 where and all the year round. The only food-plant, as far as our present knowledge 



