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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 139 106 A. DELIAS EUCHARIS. Pap. eucharis, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 10. figs. 5, 6 (1773). Common everywhere all the year round. Larvae feed on San-talum album, length 1£ inch, colour greenish brown. Pupa pale yellow, spotted black, suspended by a thread round the body ; they are much troubled by the Ichneumon, and of fifteen pupae found on a gate-post at Poona, only one had escaped, the Ichneumon-larvae being clearly visible through the skin of the pupa, there being from two to seven larvae in each pupa. 107. NEPHERONIA GAEA. Nepheronia gaea, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep. ii. p. 130 (1865). Poona, November to April; Bombay, October to November. I have two female examples taken at Poona in November, with yellow on the abdominal border of the hind wings, above as in females of N. happia. 108. NEPHERONIA HIPPIA. Pap. hippia, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 55 (1787). Bombay, October, November, and December. The male of this species has a much deeper black border to the hind wings than in the preceding species, and the female is altogether a darker insect, and has generally a good deal of chrome-yellow on the hind wings; at least this is the case with all the females of this species I have yet met with, whereas out of all the numerous examples of N. gaea I have taken (much the commoner species in the Deccan), I have only seen two with any yellow on them at all. 109. CATOPSILIA PYRANTHE. Pap. pyranthe, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 245 (1764). Common" everywhere all the year round. J10. CATOPSILIA THISORELLA. Gallidryas thisorella, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 609 (1836). Poona, November to June; Ahmednuggur, October to November. 111. CATOPSILIA ILEA. Pap. ilea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 426 (1798). Poona, November to June ; Ahmednuggur, September and October. 112. CATOPSILIA PHILIPPINA. Pap. philippina, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 361. figs. C, D (1782). Poona, October to April; Ahmednuggur, November ; Bombay, March, July, and October. |