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postdiBcal mark from the inner margin quite distinct and separated ; the 

 last and the outer marginal one are often joined in the wet-eeason 

 forms. Hind wing : the basal and discal spots are quite small and alto- 

 gether separated, the middle spots sometimes even altogether v> anting. 



E</(/. — Shaped like a finger-bowl, the top concave, but only gently so ; the 

 surface shining, covered with extremely fine, comparatively large 

 reticulations or flat-bottomed ceJls with a little lump at each junction of 

 the lines ; tl'.ese cells are most probably more or less irregularly hexagonal 

 as usual ; they are largest about the widest part, i.e., the rim of the bowl 

 or cup and become smaller towards the centre of the top where is situated 

 the minute micropyle which is circular and smooth ; there aie only about 

 2-3 rows of cells from rim to base ; the colour is a delicate light 

 the net-work and lumps white. B : 0.6 mm. ; H : a good deal less. 



Larta. — Is of the normal shape but very depressed, highest in the 

 middle though the dorsal longitudinal outline is only very gently convex : 

 there ia a distinct flange f-eparating the dorsal aspect firm the ventral, 

 this ventnim being nearly flat ; the flange can be slightly turned up ; the 

 segments are well marked, being constricted laterally along the flange 

 except in segments 12-14 which are, as is commonly the case, more or less 

 one piece ; here this end piece is broadly rounded at extremity and flat 

 dorsally ; the outline of the body seen from above is a lengthened ellipse as 

 segment 2 is also rounded in front like the anal segment ; this segment 2 is 

 not retractable under 3 and has the dorsal trapeze-shaped space hardly de- 

 pressed at all. The head is hidden under segment 2, is round in shape, light, 

 shining, very pale yellowish with black eyes, red-brown tips to the man- 

 dibles ; a large, triangular clypeus. SjAracles small, nearly white, nearly 

 round, all the same size ; that of serment 2 hidden between margins of 2 

 and 3. Surface didl, covered rather closely with shining silver-white, 

 broad, more or less triangular, pointed, minute hairs more or less all over ; 

 amongst them some simple, feathered, longer, golden ones ; some one or 

 two subdorsal, much longer, erect hairs and a subspiracular fringe all round 

 the body of still longer, erect, golden-brown ones ; these last numerous, 

 feathered also and about one-third as long as breadth of body, most dense 

 at both ends of the larva: the gland near hinder margin of segment 11 

 transverse, mouth-shaped, rather difficult to see because of the hairs ; the 

 organs on segment 12 circular, about the size of the spiracles, whitish. 

 Colour is light green — whitish looking ; with a broad, light-jellow- green 

 dorsal hand flanked by a dorsolateral or nearly lateral transluce nt green, 

 dark and narrower band, a spiracular light yellow-green band and the 

 margin or flange below broadly translucent green ; ventn.m light green ; 

 prologs whitish ; true legs shining whitish with dark tips. L : 16 mm. ; 

 B : 6 mm. ; H : 3 mm. 



Fupa. — Shaped like that of the Catochn/fops group but rather stout and 

 flattened somewhat ventrally. The htad is hidden, ventral : segment 2 

 semi-circular in front contour, very slightly and broadly indented in 

 dorsal line <m the front margin, convex transversely, the dorsal line at an 

 angle of about 45® to the longitudinal axis ; the vertex of head is at 

 right angles to that axis and only the frons is ventral as a matter of fact ; 

 the thorax is somewhat narrow transversely, the front part of dorsal line 

 starting at an angle of about 50° to longitudinal axis, this nngle gra- 

 dually deoreasinor to the rounded apex about the middle of thorax 

 whence it descends again to seoment 4 in a short slope of about £0° in 

 the opposite direction ; the hinder margin of thorax is a parabolic curve 

 meeting the wings in a large, rather deep, rounded angle of somewhere 

 about 45° ; segment 4 is long laterally, short in dorpal line where it is 

 about equal to the 6th segment in length ; from the 6th inclusive, the dor- 



