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proceeding each from a minute, cup-shaped base or tubercle, the edges of which 

 are jagged or dentate; the dorsoventral margin with a fringe of fluffy, light 

 erect, fine hairs. Spiracles : circular, rather conspicuous, dark brown-black in 

 colour. The gland an oval, transverse depression on segment 11 ; organs on 

 segment 12 hardly visible. Colour is the same as the colour of the leaves the 

 larva feeds on : a kind of pale rose-madder green, velvety looking, a sort of 

 brown-pink green sometimes ; always with a yellow or reddish line rimning along 

 the dorsal ridge and a yellow subspiracular line. The segments are not easily 

 distinguishable except when the larva moves. L : 16 mm. ; B : about 5 mm. 



Pupa. — The shape is that of Tajuria cippus ; it is longer, however, pro- 

 portionately in the thorax than that species, being the same length from segment 

 5 to front as it is thence to anal extremity. The head-ivons is more or less 

 ventral ; segment 2 rather flat dorsally, widely triangularly emarginate in the 

 dorsal line of the front margin ; the dorsal ascent the same as that of the front 

 slope of thorax which is at about 45° to the sm'face of suspension ; thorax hump- 

 ed, convex and very slightly carinated in the dorsal line with a small lump on 

 the apex ; the descent from apex of thorax to the lowest point of the constriction 

 is very short and is at a very obtuse angle with the front slope of thorax ; after 

 the constriction the ascent to segment 6-7 is gradual ; after which the descent 

 over the abdomen is gradual to the anal end ; anal segment widened out into a 

 horse-hoof -shaped dilatation, the widening commencing at segment 12 ; the 

 sides of the flat-topped segment 2 widen out gradually to the shoulders ; whence 

 again, the breadth increases to segment 7 which is by a good deal the broadest 

 part of the body ; after that the breadth gradually decreases to the end ; the 

 apex of thorax and body at segment 6-7 are about of equal height ; from the 

 posterior margin of segment 6 to anal end the dorsal region of abdomen is 

 somewhat flattened, the sides nearly perpendicular to it without there being an 

 angle anywhere between them however ; the ventral part rather convex trans- 

 versely ; ventral line from head to segment 9-10 is straight, that from 9-10 to 

 end also but these two portions are inclined to each other at an obtuse angle 

 so that the head touches the surface of attachment although the rest of the pupal 

 ventral line is free from it except the tail. Surface of pupa shining, glassy, 

 absolutely naked ; segments 6-7 having a central ridge each which is transverse 

 to the pupal length, these ridges curved with the convexity backwards ; 

 one round, dorsal, small tubercle centrally on segments 2-13. Colour white, 

 greenish-brown on the flat dorsal aspect of segment 2, a broad spiracular band 

 on abdomen oily-brown as well as the dorsal part of segment 6 ; wings white 

 with a brown, longitudinal streak down each ; ventrum white. L : 14mm. ; B : 

 6mm. 



Habits. — The eggs of deva are laid in the axils of leaves and flowers 

 like those of other related species. The little larvae eat in the same 

 way also : at first, when very small, in little, more or less roimd patches 

 from the undersides of the leaves, leaving always the top cuticle 

 intact ; the little caterpillar lies in this hole as often as not ; otherwise 

 in the axils of the veins, at the base of a flower-tube, amongst the 

 buds, &c. When full grown it lives anywhere about the plant. Up 

 to the time, however, that it is full grown it continues to live under- 

 neath the leaves and to eat in the same way except that the holes 

 soon become passages and the passages become longer and broader 

 with the increase in size. When full grown also it may still continue 

 to lie on the underside — in fact generally does — eating the whole leaf 

 from the edge : in doing which it hardly ever protrudes the head from 





