NYMPH ALINJE. (Group NYMPH ALIN A.) 
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with the costa broadly lobate at base and obliquely Curved outward ; exterior margin 
obliquely convex, slightly scalloped; anal angle somewhat lobate ; precostal vein bent 
outward and slightly bifid at the angle ; costal vein much curved from the base and 
extending to apex ; cell area short, open. Body rather stout; palpi porrect, second 
joint stout, extending half beyond head; third joint short, conically slender, pointed, 
clothed with laxly appressed scales at sides and beneath, second joint hairy above ; 
forelegs of male rather short, slender, clothed with scales and delicate hairs; forelegs 
of female smoothly scaled, tarsus flattened at the sides, joints laterally spined at the 
tip; antennae slender, with a rather short, stout, somewhat spatulate grooved club ; 
eyes naked. 
Type. —J. Lavinia. 
Larva. —(Iphita) “Cylindrical; slightly pubescent; armed with nine longi¬ 
tudinal rows of many-branched spines, except on the head, which is clothed with 
short bristles. In J. Iphita the spines appear to be shorter and more closely set than 
in the other Indian species. They feed, as a rule, on Acanthaceas.” 
Pupa.— “ Regular, with three, or five, dorsal rows of small tubercular points. 
Suspended perpendicularly ” (J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 
1890, 271). 
Habits, etc. —“ In India the species of Junonia occur everywhere up to about 
7000 feet elevation, and are generally numerous in individuals. They have a rapid 
flight, but seldom go far before settling, which they do with expanded wings, often 
on the bare ground, frequently on flowers. J. Eierta and J. Orithya delight in the 
stony beds of dried-up streams in the Hills ; in the Plains they chiefly frequent 
fields and gardens. The sexes are very slightly differentiated ” (L. de Niceville, 
l.c. p. 66). 
Seasonal Dimorphism. —This occurs to a slight extent in J. Iphita, Atlites , and 
Lemonias, the wet-season brood of the two former species being distinguishable from 
the specimens of the dry-season brood, by the brighter and darker ground-colour and 
more prominent markings of both the upper and underside of the wings, and in the 
latter species (Lemonias) the dry-season specimens are distinguishable from the wet- 
season by the paler or uniform colour of the whole underside and the absence of the 
ocelli on the hindwings. In J. Almana , the wet-season brood (Asterie) not only 
differs from the dry-season (Almana) in the ground-colour and markings of the 
underside, but also—in the regions where the seasons are well separated—in the 
shape of the marginal outline of both wings. 
In J. Eierta and Orithya, in addition to the difference in the ground-colour and 
markings on the underside, the females of both species also have the markings of 
the upperside somewhat different from those of the males. 
Aberrations or “ Sports.” —The butterfly described by Moschler as Junonia 
