2<38 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



with a yellow lateral line and many rows of very small white spots ; 

 head normally green, with the horns and a continuing cheek- stripe 

 red, and three black spots on the face, but sometimes the head and 

 horns are dark brown with three white spots on the face. The pupa 

 is regular, quite smooth, and of a pale watery green colour without 

 markings. 



In Guzerat and Bombay we have reared this on grass. In Kar- 

 war we found it during August and September on rice. It is very 

 shy, resting by day on the underside of a blade and feeding 

 by night. 



Subfamily Elymniin^:. 



8. Elyvnnias caudata, Butler. Plate A, Figs. 2, 2a. 



Larva spindle-shaped, slender, transversely rugose and clothed 

 with short, stout bristles, just visible to the naked eye ; head large, 

 surmounted by two stout, straight horns, sloping backwards, slightly 

 branched at the ends ; a pair of long, straight, caudal spines, setose 

 like the body ; colour bright green, with longitudinal yellow lines, 

 more or less distinct, and two rows of large yellow spots tinged 

 with pink and sometimes tipped with black on the back ; head 

 dark brown, with a yellow cheek-stripe and frontal line. Pupa sus- 

 pended by the tail only, but in a rigidly horizontal position ; regular 

 with the exception of two small pointed processes from the head 

 and an acute thoracic projection above them ; colour bright green, 

 beautifully ornamented with four irregular rows of large yellow 

 spots bordered with red. 



We got two larvae and several pupce on the cocoa-nut and betel- nut 

 palms in October, but they must have been out from July or August. 



Subfamily Acr^ein^e. 

 9. Telchinia violce, Fabricius. 



Larva cylindrical, slender, with six longitudinal rows of fine 

 branched spines ; colour reddish-brown with an oily gloss, much 

 paler on the head, second and last segmeDt ; an unwholesome looking 

 insect, doubtless protected like the butterfly. Pupa perpendicularly 

 hung, long, slender, smooth ; two lateral angles on the thorax, head 

 quadrate, colour creamy-white with broad longitudinal bars of pur- 



