90 LIFE HISTORIES OF CERTAIN BUTTERFLIES 
Hypolimnas misippus 
Like all low-feeding Nymphalinas, difficult to observe. 
The $ does not always lay her eggs on the food-plant, but 
walks about on the ground and lays erratically on any young 
low-growing herbage. | 
Egg . — Invariably on the under -side of a minute leaf. Dome- 
shaped, with twelve and fourteen ribs, coloured like a blister 
pearl. Hatches in two or three days. 
Pupa of Hypolimnas misippus. It is a 
light ochre in colour, with darker 
markings in grey ; the sides of the 
abdominal segments are pale reddish. 
Larva . — First stage : Coloured like a maggot, and to the 
naked eye much like an infant Danaine larva. A lens at 
once detects many small warts on each segment, with fine 
hairs sprouting from them, where the processes or spines 
are subsequently developed. 
Second and third stages : The larva becomes an oily 
brown and more or less tuberculous, but still has a superficial 
resemblance to the Danaine (Euplseidse). Like others of 
this family, it grows at an astonishing pace. Feeds chiefly 
at night and in the evening, and, in its wild state, I believe 
it quits the food-plant and hides away during the day. 
Fourth stage : Larva spinous and slender, but spiracular 
markings only faintly discernible — general colour black. 
Fifth stage : As described in detail. 
Tu'pa . — Attached by tail — hanging vertically. In form 
somewhat resembling Danaidse (constricted behind thorax). 
Head ending in two blunt points. Thorax roughly conical 
