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Of the unnamed moths No. 1 was found on 13th August in ©ur com- 

 pound, on a wild brown-speckled arum that comes up in profusion 

 in the rains all through the jungle on Cumballa HilL It was smooth,, 

 pale green, with a long black tentacle at the tail, and near the head 

 two grass green eyes edged with bright yellow, below which were 

 two yellow spots. When found it was about 2^ inches long. It 

 ehrysalised in earth, but scarcely going beneath the |su;rface r on 

 ]6th August. The imago appeared on 4th September, a largo 

 female moth of a general pale ashy brown colour, with broad bands 

 of darker brown across the wings. The forewings were deeply 

 scooped along the inner margin, and both fore and hind wings 

 were scalloped along the posterior margin. The body, which: was 

 very thick, was ringed with five fine transverse white lines,. 

 The pectinated antenna? were deeply hooked at the ends. Two 

 Kiales, attracted into the house from outside, were also secured! 

 on 5th September. The female laid a large number of eggs singly 

 about the roof and walls of the cage on 6th; and 7th September, 

 almost all of which were hatched on 1 3th. The larvae were palo 

 yellow with a tentacle of the same colour, very long in proportion to 

 the length of the body, at the tail end. We were unable to rear 

 any of them, as the' food plant had unfortunately withered after tho 

 rains. 



Nos. 2 — 6, small hairy caterpillars, dark brown, slightly marked 

 with yellow and red, and so thick-bodied towards the head end as to 

 present a somewhat " hump-back" appearance', were found ow 

 14th August on Ficus heterophyUa* on Cumballa Hill. They 

 assumed the pupa form in loose cocoons of yellow fluff in cones of 

 brown paper on 22nd August. The imago of one appeared on 3rd 

 September, and of the others on- the 4th. The moth, thick -bodied, 

 and with pectinated antennae, was about an inch across the wings, 

 very downy, yellow, with two black spots near the tip of the fore- 

 wing, and one near its posterior margin. It is a very common one 

 in the house during the rains in Bombay. 



In concluding these notes, we could warn the reader to be cau- 

 tious in using the native nomenclature', which is apt to be a little 

 ^discriminative, at least among those ignorant persons of the lower 

 orders who are most likely to be employed to assist in the work of a 

 «aterpillar farm. For instance, we found the name Asok freely be- 



* Native name Karowt t* 



