LARV;!-: 4ND PITsE OF BUTTERFLIES. 36.9 



know, being of a dark brown colour, with a bright red spot at the 

 l»;iso of each process, a dorsal row of large, irregular, yellow patches, 

 and a partial lateral row ending- in a diagonal band which connects, 

 the two. The pupa is unique, exhibiting one of the most remarkable 

 instances of protective resemblance we know. It exactly resembles 

 a deadj twig about an inch long- and less than a quarter of an inch in 

 diameter, broken off irregularly at one end. The last segment is so 

 modified that the pupa is not attached by one point, but appears as if it 

 had "Town out of the branch to which it affixes itself. We found this 

 in Bombay on Tdrantlwra apetala, and in Karwar on Al&eodtiphne 

 scnu'-nrpifoVia, at the beginning of the rains and again in September 

 and October. We got both sexes of each form. Some of our pupa) 

 continued in that state for a month or two. 



Family HESPEPJID.E. 



The caterpillars of this fainily are generally easy to recognise. 

 The head is large, the body smooth, long and thickest in the middle 

 and usually green in colour. The majority feed on grasses, and 

 the habit of folding, or rolling up, a leaf to form a cell is very 

 general. They are more likely to be mistaken for the larva) of 

 moths than for those of any other family of butterflies, but the 

 observant collector will notice that while those moth larvao which 

 form cells generally foul them, the Ilcspcrii-lcc are cleanly in their 

 habits. 



77. GfDirjara thyrsis, Fabricius. 



Larva cylindrical, but much attenuated towards the head, which 

 is larger than the neck and slightly conical, with the apex upwards. 

 The whole insect is covered with a white fluffy secretion, which forms 

 long filaments and comes off on everything which touches it. The 

 colour of the skin, where it shows itself at all, appears to be light 

 green, or in parts bright red. We got this in June, and again in 

 September and October, on the cocoanut and betelnut palms. 



The larva lives securely in a strong cell, formed either by firmly 

 joining the edges of a leaf together, or else by rolling it spirally. 

 When about to turn into a pupa it closes the end of the cell towards 

 which its head is pointed. The pupa is smooth, with the abdominal 

 part proportionally very long, the thoracic part short and stouter, and 



