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9. Euplcea (Narmada) coreta, Godart. 



IcJinocarpus frutescens, Br. (Apocynacese). 



Larva. The larva is of the type of that of Euplosa (Crastia) core, 

 Cramer, except that the subdorsal tentacles are wanting on segment 6, 

 and the two pairs on segments 3 and 4 are considerably longer. The 

 head is round, smooth, shiny and black, with a narrow white band round 

 the margin over the vertex, and a similar band down each side of the 

 clypeus meeting at the apex of the clypeus ; the labrum is white. The 

 surface of the body is smooth and rather greasy looking. The spiracles 

 are oval, black and shiny. The colour of the body varies somewhat, or 

 rather the shade varies ; segments 3 and 4 are dorsally always slightly 

 yellowish. There is always a dark bluish, dorsal line or band. The 

 general colour of the body is a light violet-green on the somites of the 

 dorsal half, and a chocolate-green on the somites of the ventral half; 

 there is a subspiracnlar yellow line dividing the two colours ; a slight 

 yellow shade around the spiracles, and the extreme base of all three 

 pairs of tentacles is yellow ; segment 2 is light yellow with a black 

 subdorsal shiny spot, and the anal flap is yellow, with a very large 

 shiny black mark, covering nearly three-fourths of the dorsum ; tentacles 

 dull indigo in colour ; all the legs shiny black. Length 39 mm., breadth 

 6 mm., length of tentacles of segment 3 is 14 mm., of segment 4 is 

 9 mm., of segment 12 is 6 mm. All the tentacles are nearly straight. 



Pupa. The pupa has nothing in any way to distinguish it in shape 

 from that of E. core. The spiracles are light brown, oval, of the 

 usual size. The colour of the pupa is silver, with one very broad sub- 

 dorsal, and one very broad, spiracular, lightish brown band on the 

 abdomen meeting on segment 6, which is entirely brown, as are also 

 segments 4 and 5 except dorsally; the shoulders and the inner margin 

 of the wing are broadly brown, as is also the vertex of the head ; there 

 is a narrow brown band along the outer margin of the wings ; a broad, 

 dorsal, thoracic, brown band forking from the apex to the hinder margin ; 

 a large, oblong, brown mark on the wing beyond the discoidal cell; the 

 cremaster is strong, triangular, flattened dorsally and ventrally, with a 

 rugose knob at the end, and a spherical tubercle at the base laterally : 

 all shiny black, as are also the anal clasper scars ; the costal margins of 

 the wings and the haustellum are also brownish ; the whole surface is 

 shiny and quite smooth. Length 18*5 mm. including the cremaster, 

 breadth at segment 7 is 8'5 mm., which is the broadest part. 



Habits. The habits are the same as those of E. core in every 

 particular. The larva eats the young leaves, living on the underside of 

 the leaves. It pupates under a leaf, hanging very freely. The larva is 

 badly persecuted by ichneumons, 

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