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LEPIDOPTERA. 
yellow ringed ocelli on the wings, and appear to be common only in the 
moister parts of the continent. The larva of huhneri is described by 
de Niceville as green, about one inch long, with two divergent processes 
from the anal segment pointing backwards. It feeds on grasses. 
Melanitis ismene, Cram., which is taken to include M. leda , is the large 
deep brown butterfly so common round the trunks of trees ; two or more 
are commonly to be seen flying round the trunks of large shady trees, 
their dusky colouring and quick settling making them difficult to see. 
The upper surface is uniformly coloured in brown, with two large black 
spots near the apex of the forewing containing each a white spot and 
some ferruginous marking. The under surface is extremely variable, 
marked in tints of brown, yellow and ferruginous and, especially in the 
dry-season form, alike in almost no two specimens. The resemblance 
to a dry leaf is extraordinarily close, and the resting attitude, with the 
wings folded, the body rigid so as to incline the wings at an angle to the 
ground, bears out this appearance. The larva feeds on rice and grasses, 
being green, rough and wrinkled, with two processes on the head and two 
on the terminal segment; by day it clings closely to the leaf of the rice, 
and is extremely difficult to find ; it feeds at night. The butterfly appears 
to be common throughout the plains and is found through the cold wea¬ 
ther, there being, as a rule, two broods in the year, the butterflies of the 
second living till the following rains. (Plate XXIX.) 
The Morphince , also known as Amatliusiince , are large butterflies 
often of great beauty, found wholly in the moist hill forest areas of the 
Himalayas, Assam, South India and Burmah. Not one species comes 
within our plains fauna. The group is a small one, intermediate 
between Satyrince and Nymphalince, with 11 Indian genera. Stichel has 
recently listed the known species in “ Genera Insectorum. ” 
Nymphalince. —The largest of the sub-families, with the greater num¬ 
ber of the plains species. They are typically butterflies found flying in 
the sunshine, settling with the wings open and usually of bright colour. 
The larvae are cylindrical and usually provided with processes or spines. 
Charaxes is represented outside the hills by C. fabius, Fabr., a large 
black butterfly with a series of yellow spots forming a band across both 
wings, with a series of smaller yellow spots near the margin, and with the 
