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being that of burnished .silver, or sometimes gold, with or without 

 broad black lines defining the wing-cases. The larva may be found 

 at almost any season, feeding in gardens on oleander and in the jungle 

 on different species of Mcus and other trees ; but never have we 

 seen it in such numbers as in Karwar in June 1889. It almost 

 amounted to a plague. During the following month it disappeared, 

 but was found again from August onward. 



Subfamily Satyrinje. 



5. Mycaksis mandata, Moore. Plate A, Figs. 1, la. 



We got one specimen, feeding on grass, in Sej)tember. The 

 larva is spindle-shaped, transversely rugose and rough, owing to 

 the skin being clothed with minute bristles. There are two long 

 setose spines on the head, pointed forwards, and two caudal spines. 

 The colour above is rosy red, with a blue dorsal line and a white 

 lateral line, below which the under parts are green. The pupa is 

 perpendicularly suspended, slender, and regular, except that the 

 head- case is produced into a long beak formed of two thin processes 

 like split straws. In colour it is whitish -brown with faint striae of a 

 darker shade. It has very much the look of a large grain of barley. 



6. Mycaksis mineus, Linnaeus. 



Larva spindle-shaped; head larger than neck and surmounted 

 with two short protuberances ; last segment elongated and ending 

 in two fine points : colour some shade of brown with a lateral dark 

 line, sometimes indistinct, formed by a chain of minute cruciform 

 marks. This colour is assumed when the larva is half-grown : at 

 first it is green with a black head. Pupa oval, without angle or irre- 

 gularity of any kind, very like that of Melanitis, but proportionally 

 thicker ; light green with a pale line across the wing cases. "We got 

 one specimen on rice, in July, and a dozen the following June from 

 eggs laid by the unocellated form in captivity. Mr. de Nicevillehas 

 described and figured the transformations of this species. 



7. Melanitis kda, Linnaeus. 



Larva long, slender, spindle-shaped, rough ; two short caudal pro- 

 cesses ; head large and armed with two erect, straight horns, which 

 are thickly set with minute spines or bristles; colour grass green, 



