234 L. de Niceville — Butterflies of the Kanara District. [No. 2, 



on a low shrub near a nulla with water in it and open to the sunlight. 

 The larvae live generally on the underside of the leaves, eating all but 

 the ribs or veins to which one finds them hanging. They emit much 

 web and fall by a silk thread when disturbed, but only when touched 

 or otherwise violently molested ; the larva rests with its true legs off 

 the surface, and its head curved down and often turned to one side. 

 The pupa is formed always on the underside of a leaf, and rests quite 

 parallel to the surface of the leaf. The larva reminds one forcibly of 

 a pierine larvae of the Catopsilia, Ixias or Teracolus type. The butterfly, 

 which is rare in the Kanara district, appears to be found only in the 

 neighbourhood of its food-plant. 



Subfamily Nemeobiin^. 



73. Abisaiu fraierna, Moore. 

 Tlmbelia robusta, Roxb. (Myrsinese). 

 Ardisia liumilis, Vahl (Myrsineae) . 



Family LYC^NID^E. 



74. Neopithecops zalmora, Butler. 

 Glycosmis pentaphylla, Correa (Uutacete). 



75. Spalgis epitts, Westwood. 



The larva is wholly carnivorous, feeding on Goccidte, and not 

 touching vegetable food at all. 



76. Megisba malaya, Horsfield. 

 This species has never been bred. 



77. Plebeius* trochilus, Freyer. 

 Zornia diphylla, Pers. (Leguminosm) . 

 Heliotropium strigonum, Willd. (Boraglnese). 



Lauva. Of the ordinary lycaenid shape, but rather narrowed at 

 both ends, broadest a little before the middle, somewhat narrow. 

 Head small, hidden under segment 2 in repose, having a rather long 

 neck ; nearly black with a whitish labrum ; shiny, glabrous, and round. 

 Segment 2 swollen on the front margin, somewhat depressed in the 



* Dr. A. G. Butler in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., seventh series, vol. v, p. 61, 

 n. 23 (1900), records Plebeius trochilus, Freyer, from Nyasaland, noting that 

 " According to de Niceville this is a Chilades." In this I followed Dr. F. Moore, 

 who placed the Lycaena putii of Kollar, which is a synonym of Lycaena trochilus, 

 Freyer, in the genus Chilades. I do not know what the type of Plebeius is. 



