260 L. de Niceville — butterflies of the Kanara District. [No. 2, 



for the " Papilio " chronius of Cramer, under which this species appears 

 in the Kanara papers. 



Larva. Head squarely rounded as seen from the front, moderately 

 thick through ; covered with rather long, erect, liglit hairs ; the colour 

 is yellow or red-fuscous ; when yellow a black spot (the eyes) at the 

 base of each lobe just above the jaws ; head slightly bilobed. Segment 

 2 is smaller than the head, and has a dorsal, broad, black collar ; it is 

 often greenish when it has two black, lateral spots. The shape is 

 cylindrical, the section being circular, the anal end slightly sloping and 

 finishing off round ; the last segment has a shiny, dorsal, black shield at 

 the end. The spiracles are rather long ovals, large and white. The 

 body is sparsely covered with rather long, erect, white hair. The colour 

 is a more or less dark mauve on the dorsal half-segments, suffused with 

 whitey -yellow dorsally ; tliere is a dorsal, pure mauve line, and a more 

 or less indistinct subdorsal pure mauve line ; as also a broad, latero- 

 marginal band of yellowish-green bordered above and below by a white 

 line. Ventrum greenish-yellow. The larva is oily looking. There may 

 be a lateral, black spot on each or any of segments 5 to 9. 



Pdpa. Head high, somewhat bowed, with a conical boss on the 

 vertex, pointing upwards and forwards, between the eyes ; the eyes are 

 very prominent. Segment 2 broad. Thorax stout, convex, humped in 

 the usual way ; shoulders somewhat narrower than the head. Section 

 of body circular. The pupa decreases evenly in diameter from the 

 shoulders to the end, with a slight dorsal constriction to the cremaster, 

 which is small and nearly cubical. The last segment before the end is 

 broad dorsally, but disappears laterally, and is raised on the front margin 

 above the margin of the next segment, with a triangular indentation 

 dorsally. Segment 14 shows as a semicircular dorsal shield-like piece, 

 deeply indented on the dorsal line. Spiracles rather large, rather long 

 ovals, light brown in colour, the spiracle of segment 2 linear. Surface 

 shiny, widely and finely wrinkled, covered with more or less numerous 

 hairs, erect on the anterior part of the body, ad pressed on the posterior 

 part ; ventrally on abdomen the hairs are erect. Colour green, generally 

 sprinkled with white powder, with a yellowish tinge on the abdomen; 

 the depressions of segments 13 and 14 edged with shiny black. The 

 pupa is attached by the tail and a body -band. 



Habits. The larva feeds on young leaves, and makes a loose cell 

 by bringing the two edges of a leaflet together laxly. It pupates in 

 such a cell. It is very moth-like in its habits : the larva runs out of its 

 cell when disturbed, The pupa wriggles considerably when touched. 



192. Hasora (Parata) bdtleri, Aurivillius. 

 Derris scandens, Benth. (Leguminosde). 



