1900.] L. do Niceville — Butterflies of the Kanara District. 275 



clypeus for a very short distance, when they stop, and are met by a 

 brown line parallel to the central one commencing one-third the length 

 of the head from the vertex, and ending where it meets the furcation 

 of the central line ; the sides of the clypeus are lined with black, and 

 there is a black line down the centre of the clypeus ; the head is not 

 large for the body. The colour of the head varies from that described 

 above to pure white without any markings. The body is more or less 

 cylindrical, lying with the ventrum flat on the leaf; the neck is con- 

 siderably narrower than the head ; the anal segment is flattened, 

 roughened on top by pittings, it lies flat on the surface of the leaf, and is 

 rounded at the end ; segment 12 is slightly broader than segment 1J, 

 being swollen at the sides; the larva is very little broader and higher 

 at segment 5 than anywhere else. Spiracles small, round, yellow. 

 The surface of the larva is smooth, not shiny ; the colour is a pure, 

 opaque, bluish- white all over, w r ith a slight yellowish tinge on the 

 margins of th e front segments, which are finely folded. Length 42 

 mm. 



Pupa. The pupa is very similar in shape to that of Baoris con- 

 juncta, Herrich-Schaffer, also in mode of suspension and in colour. 

 The " beak " (long head-proce3s) is slightly curved downwards, with 

 a blunt tip, and a small piece stuck on to the top at the point with a 

 slight point directed backwards. The proboscis is free, reaching to the 

 hinder margin of segment 9. The cremaster is long, thin, triangular, 

 scolloped out on the top, transparent. The surface of the pupa is shiny, 

 with minute, erect, thick hairs covering it sparsely. The spiracular 

 marks of segment 2 are narrowly oval in shallow depressions. Spiracles 

 linear, white ; the marks on segment 2 are the same colour as the body. 

 Colour of body very transparent darkish green, with a rather broad, 

 double, dorsal, white line on the abdomen. Length 32 mm., breadth 6 

 mm., length of snout or beak alone 3 mm. The pupa is fastened by 

 the tail and by a band round the body. 



Habits. The larva lives in a more or less laxly-made cylindrical 

 cell. It pupates free on the underside of a leaf, drawing the sides 

 together slightly at either end of the leaf. 



236. Baoris (Pamara) plebeia, de Niceville. 



This is the only species in the <jenus which has in the male a tuft 

 of long hairs towards the base of the forewing on the underside at tached 

 to the inner margin of the wing and turned under and forwards. By 

 this character alone it is quite easy to distinguish the male. Messrs. 

 Elwes and Edwards (I.e., p. 274) record it from Sikkim, from Java 

 on M. Paul Mabille's authority, from Kina Balu mountain in Borneo, 



