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naked except that it is thickly covered with glossy, circular, convex, minute 

 shagreening and corrugated pits and depressions. Spiracles are oval, slightly 

 raised, very light yeUow in colour, and either yellow or black-rimmed, those of 

 segments 11, 12 situated in depressions. The colour is rather difficult to des- 

 cribe : — that of segments 2-7, except the supraspiracular region of segment 

 7 and the dorsum of segment 3 (the former brownish red, the latter also and 

 soiled dorsolaterally besides), is a greenish, soiled pinkish yellow with a dorsal, 

 brownish band, two obsolescent, brownish lateral lines and a yeUow margin ; 

 segments 8 and 9 are deep red-brown with a white, dorsal patch and dark-green 

 dorsolaterally and laterally ; segment 10 is rich, dark green dorsaUy with a 

 subdorsal, whitish, diagonal line outside which the colour is brown-red ; the 

 remaining segments 11-14 are soiled, translucent -looking brownish or reddish 

 with the margins of the swellings much lighter ; the front margin of segment 2 

 is slightly greenish. L : 18mm. ; B : 6mm. ; H : 4* 5mm. at segment 4 ; the 

 height being taken at segment 6-7 (which means the common margin of those 

 segments). 



Pupa. — Is also of the type of Tajuria cippus. Head not quite hidden by seg- 

 ment 2 and with two small, conical points, one on the front of each eye, close 

 together and directed forwards ; segment 2 transversely convex dorsally, 

 semi-circular as to front margin outline, slightly emarginate on the dorsal line 

 of front margin ; thorax humped, transversely convex, with a very slightly 

 depressed, dorsal line ; shoulders rounded ; the thorax is the same height as the 

 body at segment 6 ; the lateral outline of pupa diverges from shoulders back- 

 wards to segment 6 ; transverse section of the abdomen is more or less circular, 

 decreasing in diameter from 6 to 10; segments 11-14 forming the column or 

 pedestal of varying length (in different individuals) ; this pedestal circular in 

 transverse section, slightly widened out at the extremity in the manner of a 

 horse's hoof where it is attached to the leaf, supporting the whole pupa from 

 fore-end to segment 10 which portion is at right angles t6 the pedestal or column ; 

 the ventral line from head to segment 9 (end of wings) being straight ; the con- 

 striction behind thorax is dorsally slight, laterally nothing. Surface of the 

 pupa is finely rugose with a pair of subdorsal, small tubercles on the apex of 

 thorax ; the hinder part of thorax and segments 4, 5 are roughened dorsally as 

 also segments 6-9 with small, round-topped, shining tubercles. Spiracles 

 of segment 2 are rather large, raised, oval, white ; the rest being of ordinary 

 size, oval, white. The colour of the pupa is : — ^head and wings as weU as thorax 

 green suffused with white ; abdomen yellow-green with a broad, pinkish-brown 

 dorsal band on segments 7-9, margined on the front margin of segment 8 and 

 hinder margin of segment 9 with velvety-black ; this velvety- black margining 

 flanked by a subdorsal mark ; segments 8 and 9 have a similar velvety-black 

 mark on their common margin also. L : 15 mm. B : 5 mm. 



Habits. — The larvae have much the same habits as those of Pratapa 

 deva in that, on emergence from the egg, they go for buds and young 

 leaves, eating at first the undersides of the latter leaving the top 

 cuticle only. Generally, a number of eggs are laid on one plant, 

 all singly in the axils of leaves and flowers. The full-grown larva 

 crawls about the plant anjrwhere and may geaerally be found sitting 

 on a stem eating the flowers. It is slow-moving like all its kind 

 and when disturbed makes itself quite hard and drops to the ground ; 

 but it must be disturbed violently to do this ; a breath or shaking 

 will not do ; all the Tajuria, Creon, Camena and Pratapa larvse do 

 this. The pupation takes place on the upper surface of a leaf as a 



