87'2" JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVI. 



Description. — The egg is sea-urchin shaped, finely reticulated and 

 greenish white. 



The larva is apple-green on emergence, covered with sparse white hairs. 

 It immediately bores inside the flower-bud and after its first month turns 

 a dull pinkish red, matching the buds of its food-plant. 



When full fed, the head is yellowish brown, the body dull coral pink, 

 with a dark red dorsal stripe, covered with white bristles, which under a 

 microscope disclose a hexagonal stellate process near the base of each. 



The larva is full fed in about 16 days when it is 10 m.m. long x 4 m.m. 

 broad at the widest segment. 



The pupa is of the usual squat, Cyaniris shape, dull green blotched with 

 brownish 8 m.m. in length and 3'5m.m. broad ; the wing cases marked with 

 minute black dots and naked, the body covered with a fine pubescence. 



My specimens remained nine days in the pupal state, hatching out on 1st 

 March 1918. The larvse are attended in a desultory fashion by ants, but 

 are evidently able to get on without their assistance. While conducting 

 experiments with the Mercara Hiptage I came across several Hesperid 

 larvae which all appeared to belong to one species till their emergence in 

 March 1918, when it was found that the smaller specimens were Bibasis 

 sena, and the larger ones Ismene fergusonii . 



Identity of marking, food-plant and habits in the early stages would 

 seem to show that these butterflies are even more closely allied than is 

 generally supposed and that they might well be placed in the same genus. 



F. HANNYNGTON, i.c.s. 

 Bellary, 20th Feb. 1919. 



[Since the above note was written we regret to say Mr. Hannyngton died. We 

 hope in the next number of the Journal to publish an obituary notice — Eds.] 



No. XXXVII.— THE HAWK MOTH {DEILEPHILA LIVORNICA). 



A CORRECTION. 



In October 1916, 1 sent some Hawk moths to you for identification. One 

 of these you identified as Deilephila livornica, and in Vol. XXV, No. I of the 

 Journal, you printed an article of mine on the moth under the above name. 



Some time afterwards 1 came to doubt the identification, and sent the 

 moth to Mr. T. R. Bell, and on his recommendation to Sir George Hampson. 



I have now heard from the latter that the moth is not Deilephila livornica, 

 but Celerio euphorbia. Linn. Var. nervosa, Koths. 



Sir George Hampson says that there are only two specimens of the moth 

 in the British Museum, and he would like a good series. 



If there are any members of the Society near Murree who are keen on 

 collecting, I could tell them where they could obtain munbersof specimens. 



F. B. SCOTT, Capt., I.A. 



Allahabad, IQth Feb. 1919. 



No. XXXVIII.— IT^EP^CTOi? COSTALIS, STAL., PREYING ON 



CERATINA FIRIDJSf^IMA, D.T. 

 On the 16th April I caught a Harpactor costalis, Stal., busy sucking a 

 Ceratina viridissima,!). T., which it had evidently caught on a sunflower. 



This is a very common predaceous bug here and Lefroy mentions its 

 preying on Dysdercus cingulatus, Fabr., the Red Cotton Bug, but I am not 

 aware whether it has been previously recorded as preying on the little bee, 

 C. viridssima. 



CHAS. M. INGLIS, m.b.o.u. 



Baghownie Fxy., Laheria 

 Sarai, lO^A May 1919. 



