374 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



pointed at the top ; colour more or less dark, bluish- green, darkest 

 on the hack, collar white, head chestnut, mandibles large and black. 

 Pupa attached by the tail and by a band, regular, with short snout, or 

 palpi-case, colour semi-transparent green, or light pinkish -brown, with 

 darker lines defining the segments, and two conspicuous, triangular 

 patches of porcelain- white on each side. We found this occasionally 

 from the end of June till October feeding on several species of 

 JDioseorea. The habits of the larva are curious. It cuts out an oval 

 piece of a leaf with the margin deeply toothed, or scolloped ; this is 

 left attached by a narrow neck, including one of the principal veins 

 of the leaf, and bent over so as to form a cell with open archways all 

 round. In this the larva lives and rushes at intruders with its black 

 jaws extended. It becomes a pupa in the cell. 



92. Tagiades obscurm, Mabille. 



"We found the larva of this on the same leaf as the last, and did 

 not notice that it was different, having our hands at the time very 

 full. The pupa was similar in form to that of T. atticus, but of an 

 impure, pinkish-white colour, sparsely dotted with black on the 

 thorax and wing-cases, 



93. Cdcenorridnus fuseu'm, Hampson. 



Larva of the Tagiades type, smooth, somewhat flattened, thickest 

 in the middle, dull green, darkest on the back, with two longitudinal 

 pale lines ; last segment paler ; head large, bilobed, reddish-brown, 

 Young larvse are dark brown, and some retain this colour to the end. 

 The pupa is also like that of Tagiades, attached by the tail and by a 

 band, stout, with thorax slightly humped, very small snout, and wing- 

 cases produced into a long double filament ; colour semi-transparent 

 green. We found this abundantly in September and October, on 

 "Karwee" {Strobilanthm). It lives on the upper side of a leaf, 

 cutting off and turning over a portion to serve as a roof. It is fierce 

 and repels intrusion. Like many IJesperiichv, it grows very slowly. 



94. Abaratha ransonetU, Felder, Plate ~P,figs. 1, la., 



Thickest about the middle, somewhat pointed at the anal end, 

 t ransversely rugose and clothed with very _short hair ; head thickly 

 set with curved bristles ; colour pale green, with a yellow collar and 



