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season) of Jamides celeno as it is found in the Kanara District of the Bombay 

 I'residency where thousands of the insects have been bred. Colonel 

 Bingham's wet and dry-season forms of celeno are all wet-season butterflies; 

 that is, butterflies, the larvaj of which have had young-succulent flowers 

 uud leaves to feed upon. 



^99- — Shaped-like a turban, the flat top slightly concave in the 

 centre of which is a rather large cell about one-sixth of the whole breadth 

 of the egg in diameter ; the whole of the top covered with minute, fine- 

 walled cells which are more in the nature of reticulations than anything else 

 because the walls are so low and thin ; the central large one covered with 

 similar, but far more minute, reticulation-like cellules ; the sides with two and 

 a half or three rows of much higher and coarser- walled, proper cells with a 

 prominence, rather large, thick, flattened above and below, rectangular 

 and round-topped, at the intersection of each wall, these prominences 

 specially developed just before the top of the sides ; about 22 24 cells round 

 the whole circumference. Surface shining, especially the bottoms of the 

 cells. Colour very light greenish with the cell-walls and prominences pure 

 white. B : 075 mm. ; H : 33 mm. 



Larva. — The shape is quite normal, of more or less equal height from 

 segment 4 to 10, sometimes ever so slightly higihest at middle, also of 

 more or less equal breadth from 5-10 but often seemingly very slightly 

 broadest about segment 11 — the larva can vary shape somewhat ; segments 

 13, 14 forming a broadly rounded extremity to body, sloping slightly from 

 front to back and considerably flattened dorsally ; segment 13 not at all 

 apparent except indeed it is represented by the part anterior to a short, 

 dorsal curved, transverse dent ; segment 2 forming the front of body, for 

 the head is always hidden under it, semi-circular in shape, constricted on 

 the dorsoventral margin from just before the hinder margin somewhat, 

 the absolute front inclined to be square, the whole segment transversely 

 convex, ascending more or less in a straight line to hinde- margin, the 

 actual front being shortly steep like the rest of the free margin, the dorsal 

 depression situated towards the hinder margin from v hich it is separated 

 by one-third the distance that separates it from tne front margin ; this 

 depression occupying about half the length of tho segment, triangular in 

 shape, equilateral, with the base along hinder margin and slightly convexly 

 curved towards it, the surface bluish and somewhat convex and set with 

 star-based, minute hairs hke the rest of the body but having no larger 

 bristle at lateral angles ; segment 3 shorter than 2, suddenly higher than 

 it all along the margin, dorsally flat for its whole length and breadth, 

 sloping slightly down towards 4 ; segments 4, 5 about as long as 3 sloping 

 up in the dorsal line towards 5, 6 respectively ; segment 6-10 all a trifle 

 longer than 5 and coequal among themselves. Head completely retractile 

 under 2, the neck, however, long enough though the head is never protruded 

 further than the top of the clypeus at the most ; round in shape though 

 somewhat broadest just below the vertex ;, surface shining smooth, bare; 

 clypeus triangular, about two-thirds as long as head is high, the 

 apex acute, not rounded ; colour of head very light watery yellow ; clypeus 

 finely brown-bordered ; labrum red-brown with white base, transverse ; 

 ligula large, transverse, broadly oval, the front margin shallowly emargi- 

 nate, widely so too, also rerf-brown in colour; antennal joints and mandibles 

 light like the head, the last dark-tipped and toothed; eyes disposed: 

 five in a curve of which the 6th is the centre : the two uppermost larger, 

 glassy-colourless, the rest black. Surface extremely finely shagreened- 

 granulate under the lens, shining ; covered all over very densely in some 

 specimens with minute, star-shaperl tubercles, some milky-white, others 

 green, others brown, all more or less sessile but a few with very short 



