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and head most closely and thickly dotted with raised black spots, giving the larva 
a rugose appearance ; abdomen pale green, slightly dotted with black. Legs green. 
Head green, and very round in front. Stigmata black, circled with green. After 
last moult. Length 1 inch. Cylindrical, as after first moult, though a little 
darker. Feeds on Cassia occidentalism Habits sluggish. Changed into chrysalis on 
August 28th. Pupa .—Green ; angles marked with yellow lines. 
Imago .—Emerged on September 5th. Very common in Lucknow ” (Capt. 
H. L. Chaumette. MS. Notes, 1860). 
Messrs. Davidson and Aitken, in their ££ Notes on the Butterflies of the N. 
Kanara District of Bombay, describe the larva as being “long, somewhat depressed, 
rough, green, with a white lateral line, and above it a black line, more or less con¬ 
spicuous, formed by minute, flat, shining, black tubercles, being like a big specimen 
of Terias PLecabe . The pupa is much stouter, and the keel formed by the wing 
cases is much less pronounced. The normal colour is pale green, with a yellow 
lateral line. We have never found it on any plant except Cassia occidentalism It 
habitually rests on the upperside, along the midrib, like almost all Pierine larvae. 
Distribution, Habits, &n. —In the N.W. Himalayas this species was taken by 
Capt. A. M. Lang, and also in the Plains. “ Larva reared on Cassia Tora ” (Ent. Mo. 
Mag. 1864, 103). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records it as ££ not very common in 
Masuri during the rains, the dry-season form, Gnoma , even less so. In the 
Dehra Dun both forms are common in their respective seasons. The larva feeds 
in the Dun, on Cassia Tora , N. 0. Leguminosae ” (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, 586). 
Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at “Bagheswar, Kali Valley, up to Dharchula, 2,000 to 
4,000 feet, Ivumaon ” (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 135). Col. C. Swinhoe records 
Pyranthe as being ££ common in Mhow, Central India, all the year round, and 
Philippina from September to April” (P. Z. S. 1886, 432). Col. Swinhoe also 
records “ a few specimens of Pyranthe from Karachi, taken in March, May, June, 
and December; Thisorella being common from March to May, and Philippina from 
September to January” {l.c. 1884, 511), and cc Pyranthe also common everywhere 
in Bombay and the Deccan, all the year round; Thisorella at Poona from November 
to June, Ahmednuggur, October to November; Ilea at Poona from November to 
June, Ahmednuggur, Sept, and October; and Philippina at Poona from October 
to April, Ahmednuggur, November; and Bombay, March, July, and October” 
(lx. 1885, 139) ; in Karachi. “Pyranthe was common from May to August, Ilea , 
May and June; and Philippina from Sept, to January” (id. J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 
1887, 279). 
Messrs. J. Davidson and B. H. Aitken obtained and described the larva, 
as found in the Kanara District of Bombay. “ The butterfly being common every¬ 
where and all the year round. The only food-plant, as far as our present knowledge 
