1900.] L. de Niceville-- Butterflies of the Kanara District. 187 



XIV.— The Food-plants of the Butterflies of the Kanara District of the 

 Bombay Presidency, ivith a Revision of the Species of Butterflies there 

 occurring.— By Lionel de Niceville, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S., &c 



[Received 23rd June ; Read 4th July, 1900.] 



In the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, vol. v, 

 pp. 260-278, 349-375, plates A, B, 0, D, E and F (1890), will be found 

 a paper entitled " Notes on the Larva3 and Pupae of some of the 

 Butterflies of the Bombay Presidency," by J. Davidson, Bo. C.S., and 

 E. H. Aitken. In the same Journal, vol. x, pp. 237-259, 372-393, 568- 

 584, vol. xi, pp. 22-63, plates T, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII 

 (1896-98), appears a paper, which is practically a continuation of the 

 same subject, under the title " The Butterflies of the North Canara Dis- 

 trict of the Bombay Presidency," by J. Davidson, T. R. Bell, and, E. H. 

 Aitken. The present paper is the third contribution to the subject, and 

 is almost entirely based on the observations of Mr. T. R. D. Bell 

 which have been placed at the disposal of the writer ; but all the infor- 

 mation contained in the above- cited papers regarding food-plants has 

 been herein incorporated as well. The object of the paper is to give all 

 the known food-plants of the butterflies bred by the three writers above 

 mentioned in a compact form, and at the same time to give a revised 

 list of the butterflies of the District of Kanara. In the first list the food- 

 plants are arranged in botanical order, the order adopted being that of 

 " The Flora of British India," in seven volumes, by Sir J. D. Hooker 

 (1872-1897). In the second list the butterflies found in the Kanara dis- 

 trict are arranged in order, with the food-plants of the larvae given where 

 known below each. Very large additions have been made to the known 

 food-plants, nearly all of which have been discovered by Mr. Bell. It 

 is probable that no single person has ever bred such a variety of 

 species of butterflies in one tropical locality as Mr. Bell has done. The 

 omissions are very few, and these Mr. Bell is trying to supply. 

 In the list of the butterflies it will be noticed the Aphnseus concanus, 

 Moore, which is a dry-season form of A. lohita, Horsfield, and Baoris 

 philotas, de Niceville, which Mr. Bell considers to be a small variety 

 of Baoris guttatus, Bremer and Grey, caused by the larva having 

 been starved, have been omitted. Their names appeared on pp. 386, 

 n. 119, and 47, n. 207 of the second paper cited above ; while Nacaduba 

 plumbeomicans, Wood -Mason and de Niceville, and N. atrata, Hors- 

 field j Ilalpe moorei, Watson, and H. ceylonica, Moore ; Notocrypta 



