It’s amazing that just when I feel I am not totally ignorant about birds, I start noticing butterflies, and am back to square zero with ids….

I am posting all the photos I have, good, bad (they can’t be ugly because they are butterflies!)….and where I have blanks, could you please help out with the ids and be good friends?

Let me start with the known ones like the PEACOCK PANSY:

The butterflies were everywhere, and I gave in to the temptation of looking at them and snapping (cameraically) at them.... The COMMON PIERROT This little one is the PSYCHE: This one, Karthik confirmed my id of PALE GRASS BLUE: This colourful one is the BLUE PANSY: Here's what Aditya says is the male BLUE MORMON: The CERULEAN: The MOTTLED EMIGRANT (where is it emigrating, I wonder?) And now follows the list of X-rated (unknown,you dirty-minded lot!) flutterby's. photo no. 8869 photo no. 8744 no. 8786, a TAWNY COASTER (thank you Aditya Kamath-of-NTP!) no. 9010 no. 8793 (could it be a ZEBRA BLUE?) I loved this ant on the Calatropis flowers:

no. 9041 is also a PEACOCK PANSY, according to Aditya…

no.9044, a PIONEER, according to Aditya

no.9051,which is a COMMON LEOPARD:

I think that I shall never be An authority on a butterflea… What? It’s called a butterfly? Oh, I’ll tell you why I call it that..because I flee When yet another new one I see!

When I saw this image on my laptop, I did try to brush off the ant. So I am very impressed with myself (not for being so dumb but for taking such a snap)..I hope it displays as well on this monitor of yours….

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