SUB-FAM. MORPHINE (AMATHUSIIFBE). 
1. genus DISCOPHORA. 
2. genus CLEROME. 
A group of butterflies confined to the Oriental, Neotropical and Australian Regions, but 
chiefly represented in the two former. 
Discophora tullia, Cram. 
Not very common, and flies chiefly in the evening, being fond of resting on foliage in 
shady nooks in the daytime. It does not frequent flowers, but may be seen feeding on overripe 
fruits. It is on the wing almost throughout the year, and has a quick and devious but unsteady 
flight, generally near the ground amongst bushes and thick cover. It seldom settles actually on the 
ground, however, except when feeding on fallen fruit. As noted by Walker in his List the females 
seem on the whole to be commoner than the males, which may be partly due to the fact that the $, 
as in the case of Lethe , is abroad at any time of day when searching for a spot to lay her eggs, and 
is therefore more often seen. There is little if any seasonal change in this insect. The £ has a 
curious sub-circular thickly-scaled patch, like close-cropped hair, on the upperside of the hindwing, 
partly in the disc. cell. The $ is usually much larger than the $. When freshly emerged from the 
pupa the wings of both sexes have a distinct purple flush in certain lights. 
Fig. 7, PI. Ill is from a £ taken in August, Fig. 8 from a $ taken in June. 
The larva is figured on PI. 2a, Fig. i, pupa Fig. 2. The pupa is often a rather dark green 
instead of flesh colour as figured, but pupae of either colour may be £ or $ indifferently, which is 
also the case with some other butterfly pupae.* The larva is very hairy, and this and its peculiar 
colour pattern make it resemble the larva of a moth rather than a butterfly. In its habits, too, 
it reminds one of many moth larvae, for it fixes two or three leaves together with a few stitches of silk, 
lining the interior with a loosely-spun web, and spends its hours of rest in this shelter: two larvae 
sometimes occupying the same tenement, also moulting therein; but this habit it does not develop 
till about half-grown. It feeds on the scrub varieties of bamboo. When young and until about 
half-grown the larvae are of a general dark purple-brown, nearly black, each segment ringed with 
yellowish-white; the hairs are whitish and rather long, but much more sparse than in the full- 
grown larva. Whilst young they are gregarious, many feeding close together on the same leaf. 
The projection at the head of the pupa is cleft for some distance up, but the two parts are 
close together, and touch at the tip. 
Clerome eumeus, Drury. 
A common butterfly here, diurnal in habit, but preferring dark, shady places and generally 
keeping to woods, though in common with other butterflies it sometimes meanders into towns, and 
*Danais chrysippus for instance. Since the article on that butterfly was written, I have come across two larvas with 
four pairs of tentacles, the abnormal pair being small and on the fourth segment. 
