300 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HLST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVI. 



The larva when first hatched was Hght yellow, with a long thin black horn. 

 After the first change of skin ocelli began to appear on the sides. 



At the second change of skin the larva assumed either a green or a brown 

 colour. 



In the green from the head and body were green, with a darker dorsal 

 line. On each side there was a series of seven ocelli on the fourth to the 

 tenth body segments, either reddish or blue, ringed with black, and a yellow 

 sub-dorsal line commencing at the second segment and running through the 

 ocelli to the horn. Horn long and thin, reddish at the base with a black tip. 

 Legs pink, prolegs and claspers green. 



After the third change of skin the co'lc;.r became yellowish-green, dotted 

 with darker green. The third and fourth body segments became swollen, 

 and the ocelli on the fourth segment larger than the others. Ocelli reddish, 

 ringed first with yellow and then dark green. Horn same as before. 



After the fourth change of skin, which is the last before turning to a pupa, 

 the head and the first three segments were apple green, the other segments 

 yellow in the dorsal area, green underneath, dotted and striped with darker 

 green. Legs and spiracles red, horn purple, strong and pointed and curved 

 sharply downwards. Ocelli green ringed with yellow and black. 



When full grown the larva was three and a half inches long. The brown 

 form was coloured as follows : — Head and body brown, body dotted with 

 brown from the fifth segment to the horn. First pair of ocelli black ringed 

 with yellow and black. Seven oblique stripes brown. Spiracles blue, 

 horn purple, legs red, prolegs and claspers brown. 



The pupa was a dirty brown colour, with black spiracles and dark lines 

 and dots. In front of the head, and joined to it, was a circular flattened 

 sheath, containing the proboscis. 



The pupse were formed at the beginning of November 1917, and the 

 moths hatched on the 1st of March 1918. 



The green and brown forms both occurred together on the smaller food 

 plant, which had both green and brown leaves. All found on the vine 



A large proportion of those reared from the egg assumed the brown 

 form, either at the second or a later change of skin. 



F. B. SCOTT, Captain, I.A. 

 Hyderabad, Bind, 

 V2th May 1918. 



No. XXIII.— LIFE HISTORY OF THE ANTHER.^ A ROYLEI 



(OAK EMPEROR) MOTH. 



On the morning of the 1st September 1917 1 found a male and a female of 

 the moth. The male had just separated from the female. I pinned the 

 male and put the female in a box and she commenced to lay her eggs 

 immediately. The first eggs hatched on the 11th September, and the first 

 caterpillars moulted as under : — 



Ist moult commenced on the 18th September and completed I9th Sept. 



