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Order LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. 



2. Carduus sp. 

 Vanessa cardui, Linnoeus. 



Order CXXXVI. URTICACE^K 



3. Urtica parviflora, Roxb. 

 Vanessa caschmirensis, Kollar. 



Order CXLI. SALICINE.E. 



4. Salix tetrasperma, Roxb. 



Vanessa xanthomelas, Wiener Verzeichniss. 



PART II. 



A Revised List of the Butterflies of the Kanara District arranged 

 in the order of Messrs. Davidson, Bell and Aitkens previous papers, with 

 the names of the Food-plants on ivhich the, larvsefeed. 



Family NYMPHALID^. 



Subfamily Danainjc. 



1. Hestia malabarica, Moore. 

 Aganosma cymosa, G. Don (Apocynaceas). 



H. lynceus, Drury, of the previous list, p. 239, is a species restricted 

 by Dr. F. Moore in Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 26 ( J 890), to Borneo. It has the 

 wings much longer and narrower and the coloraiion much darker than 

 our South Indian species. Dr. Moore (I.e., p. 18) does not record H. mala- 

 barica from Kanara, but it undoubtedly occurs there. But he describes 

 (I.e., p. 21, pi. ii, figs. 2, male ; 2a, female ; 1, laiva ; la, pupa) H, Jcanarensis 

 as a new species from North Kanara and the South Konkan. It is a 

 smaller species than H. malabarica, 425 to 4/5 as against 5 to 55 

 inches in expanse. " The markings similarly disposed and shaped but 

 smaller, being about half the size of those in H, malabarica.'" This 

 latter remark is an obvious exaggeration speaking of the markings as a 

 whole, as can be verified by comparing Dr. Moore's figures of the two 

 species in Lep. Ind. I do not think that H. Jcanarensis can be retained 

 as a species distinct from H. malabarica. Its smaller size is its most 

 distinctive character. 



