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only differs from it in being smaller than the majority of pupa) of that 

 species. In shade it is either bone-coloured or green according to 

 whether it has been formed among dead leaves, &c, or green leaves ; 

 when green the edges of the pupa along the wings are yellow as in 

 D. lepida, but when bone-coloured the black spots sprinkled over the 

 surface in D. lepida are not present here ; the surface of the two con- 

 tiguous head-points is also shiny, while in D. lepida it is dullish. 



Habits. In habits the larvae and pupae differ in no way from those 

 of D. lepida. The larva, ns is also the case in D. lepida, Avill suspend 

 itself by the tail against a perpendicular surface with its ventral 

 surface towards the perpendicular surface, and, when pupating, will 

 turn itself round, so that, when the pupa is formed, the dorsal surface of 

 the pupa will rest against the perpendicular surface. 



Subfamily Ack^in^e. 



27. Telghinia viol&, Fabricius. 

 Modecca palmata, Lam. {Passifloreee). 



Subfamily NYMPHALiNiE. 



28. Ergolis taprobana, Westwood. 

 Tragia involucrata^ Linn. (Euphorbiacem). 



Tragia involucrata, var. cannabina, Linn. {Euphorbiacex). 



29. Ergolis ariadne, Linnaeus. 



Tragia involucrata, Linn. {Euphorbiaceee). 

 Tragia involucrata, var. cannabina, Linn. (Euphorbiacete). 

 In Guzerat in the Bombay Presidency it has been bred on Tragia 

 cannabina, Linn., which is given by Hooker as a var. of T. involucrata. 



30. Byblia ilithyia, Drury. 



This species has been bred in Khandeish and the Deccan, both in 

 the Bombay Presidency, on Tragia involucrata, Linn., var. cannabina, 

 Linn. (Euphorbiucese). Tt has not been bi'ed in the Kauara District 

 itself. There is a very interesting paper in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 

 sixth series, vol. xviii, p. 333 (1896) by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, 

 entitled "Notes on the Genus Byblia ( = Hypanis)" in which he notes 

 that he is convinced " That all the Asiatic and continental African 

 forms of Byblia are referable to a single species." Dr. Chr. Aurivillius 

 in Kongl. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. xxxi, n. 5, p. 158 (1898), 

 records B. ilithyia, Drury, from Africa, the Cape Verde Islands, Arabia 



