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



81. Zizeka lysimon, Hiibner. 

 Zomia diphylla, Pers. (Leguminosse) 



82. Zizera gaika, Trimen. 

 Nelsonia campestris, Br. (Acanthacese). 



83. Zizera otis, Fabricius. 

 Zomia diphylla, Pers. {Leguminosse). 



Larva. The larva is of the ordinary lirnaciform shape like those of 

 the genera Gyaniris, Jamides and Polyommalus. Segment 2 is semi- 

 circular with a dorsal triangular depression as usual ; the anal end is 

 dorsally nattish, with the dorsal line inclined to the axis of the length 

 of the larva at an angle of about 30°, and semicircularly rounded in 

 outline, with the two cylindrical, protrusible organs and a slit-shaped 

 gland ; the body is broadest from segment 5 to segment 7, and highest 

 at segment 5 ; segment 3 overhangs segment 2 as usual. The head is 

 round, shiny, smooth, yellow, the jaws dark brown, the labrum white. 

 Before the last moult the head is entirely dark shiny red-brown 

 coloured and hidden under segment 2. The surface of the body is 

 dull, covered with minute white tubercles each surmounted by a 

 minute, sharp, white spine or hair ; there is a subdorsal row of three 

 or four curved, shiny, dark brown, rather large (for the size of the 

 larva) hairs on segments 3 to 10, only two hairs on each side on 

 segments 7 to 10 ; the margin of the body is rather densely hairy, 

 especially on segments 2 and 14. Spiracles ^hiny, minute, round 

 (or rather hemispherical), yellow. Colour grass green, with a sub- 

 spiracular yellow band from segments 5 to 32 ; an indistinct dark dorsal 

 line. Length 9 mm., breadth 3 mm. 



Pupa. The pupa is of the ordinary shape of those of the genera 

 Cyaniris, Jamides and Polyommatus, broadest at the middle, highest at 

 the thorax, constricted in the dorsal line behind the thorax, rounded 

 narrowly behind, narrowly square in front, the vertex of the head is 

 in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the pupa and rather 

 large ; segment 2 is straight on the front margin, with a slight triangular 

 shallow and w T ide indentation in the dorsal line, and a hind margin 

 curved concavely towards the front of the pupa : its dorsal line is in 

 a plane at an angle of nearly 45° to the length of the axis, and the 

 segment is very slightly convex tranversely to the length of the pupa ; 

 the thorax is humped, and the line joining the front and hind margins 

 is in a plane at an angle of about 30° to the longitudinal axis ; the 

 dorsal line of segments 4 to 14 is convex ; the ventral line of the 

 pupa is straight ; the wings are slightly expanded laterally in parallel 



