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thorax to the front of the pupa is straight, instead of convex as in 

 P. almana; the cremaster is smoothly-triangular, and has no tubercles ; 

 the whole pupa is slighter. Spiracles of segment 2 indicated by a small 

 semicircle of a light red-brown colour on the surface of segment 3 ; the 

 other spiracles are narrowisb, black, somewhat raised ovals. Length 

 175 mm., breadth 6'25 mm. at the shoulders and at segment 8 ; between 

 these points the pupa is somewhat constricted. 



Habits. The egg is laid on a stalk of grass, on the dead stem of 

 any plant, in fact anywhere ; the larva on emergence easily finds its 

 food-plant, which generally grows in great abundance all around; it lies 

 on the underside of the leaves and low down on the plant, drops to the 

 ground curled up when touched, and remains a long time thus. The 

 food-plant grows chiefly in damp places and always in great quantities. 

 The pupa as a rule is affixed to a stem or leaf in some thick place, and, 

 like the larva, is not easy to find. The butterfly is hardly ever found in 

 jungle, but is very plentiful along the coast in open cultivation, 

 especially about rice fields and on the banks of tanks or ponds. 



44. Neptis (Bahinda) hordonia, Stoll. 

 Gaesalpinia mimosoides, Lam. (Leguminosae). 



Acacia Intsia, Willd. (Leguminosae). Form of larva with short 

 processes. 



Acacia pennata, Willd. (Leguminosae) . Form of larva with long 

 processes. 



The form of N. hordonia with short processes in the larva is said 

 to feed also on " Several species of Albizzia" (Leguminosae). 



45. Neptis viraja, Moore. 

 Dalbergia latifolia, Roxb. {Leguminosae). 

 Dalbergia volubilis, Roxb.* (Leguminosae). 

 Albizzia Lebbek, Benth. (Leguminosae). 



46. Neptis varmona, Moore. 



Peas of several kinds (Leguminosae). 



The N. leucothoe, Cramer, of the second Kanara paper, p. 251, that 

 species = iV. matuta, Hiibner, according to Dr. Moore, who restricts it to 

 Java and Borneo. 



47. Neptis columella, Cramer. 



The N. ophiana, Moore, of the second Kanara paper, which is a 

 synonym of N. columella, Cramer. Though so widely-spread, this species 



* This fcod. plant has been wrongly identified — there is no such species — as 

 Dalbergia racemosa, in the second Kanara paper, p. 251. 



