272 L. de Niojnllo— Butterflies of the Kanara District. [No. % 



228. HrAROTis adrastus, Cramer. 



Phoenix sylvestris, Roxb. (Palmese). 



Calamus pseudo-tenu is, Becc. and Hook. f. (Palmese). 



Egg. The egg is dome-shaped, widest at the bottom, the base 

 being narrowly flaDged. There are about thirty-two very fine, low 

 meridian-like ridges not extending on to the top of the egg, reaching 

 only to two-thirds of the height of the egg from the base; the top 

 surface is finely frosted, all the surface is semi-satiny and frosted-looking. 

 Colour dirty very light brown. The egg is always laid on the top of a 

 leaf near the edge, and sometimes there are five or six eggs placed in a 

 row. 



Larva. The larva is of the type of Baoris oceia, Hewitson, with 

 which it agrees in every way. The body is long and parallel-sided, flat 

 beneath, convex over the dorsum, narrowing somewhat towards the head 

 in segments 2 and 3 ; segment 12 somewhat dilated behind the spiracles ; 

 the anal segments sloping to a thin edge, which lies flat on the resting 

 surface, and a broadly rounded extremity. Head large, broadly oval 

 from the front view, face slightly convex, somewhat bilobed, with a 

 narrow clypeus, the surface pitted, dull, light brown-yellow in colour, with 

 a dark brown medial band over the vertex to the apex of the clypeus ; 

 clypeus red-brown, with a dark medial line bordered with whitish ; 

 a few short hairs about the mouth. Spiracles oval, light yellow, with a 

 fine brown border. Surface of the body dull, the segments well 

 marked though not constricted in any way, and with some transverse 

 lines ; a fringe of straight, fine, colourless hairs round the margin of 

 the anal segment, but none elsewhere. Colour blue-green-white, with 

 a dorsal, dark indigo line from segment 3 to segment 11 ; segment 2 

 yellowish ; an indistinct lateral white line. Length 33 mm., breadth 

 4 mm. 



Pupa. The pupa is also of the type of B. oceia. The thorax is 

 slightly humped ; the abdomen is depressed, being broader than high • 

 the process or snout between the eyes is long and sharp, turned up 

 very slightly at the extremity ; the proboscis is free from the ends of 

 the wings and reaches to the end of the cremaster ; the cremaster is 

 broad, thin, spatulate, and rather long, with the edges dorsally swollen. 

 The spiracles of segment 2 are indicated by a kidney-shaped swelling 

 with a frosted-looking surface. The other spiracles are oval, flush, and 

 nearly white. The surface of the body is very finely corrugated, 

 except the frontal process which is rather coarsely ringed. The thorax 

 has a dorsal double series of small tooth-like tubercles. The pupa is 

 bone-coloured, with a pinkish dorsal suffusion from segments 4 to 11, 

 a subdorsal blackish band, with a spot touching it on the outside in the 



