On tlie elytra, which hâve a dark longitudinal streak on the 

 middle, several punctured Unes are visible. 



The legs are short, with vigorous, swollen femora. 



The fullgrown larva is somewhat longer than the beetle 

 (10—11 mM.) and of a yellowish white colour. It too is flat 

 and slender. The legs are very short and the abdomen, provided 

 with an unhardened spine on both sides of each segment, ends 

 in a chitinous plate which is produced into a short forceps-like 

 appendage. 



A similar appendage is also to be seen in the pupse, whose 

 wingsheaths stand ont more or less from the body. 



■2. Brachartona catoxantha, Hamps. This is a small moth r 

 belonging to the family Zygaenidœ. With expanded wings, it 

 measures only 14-15 mM. ,, Upperside unit'orm brown; frons 

 and palpi yellow, the former with a black spot at middle; un- 

 derside of the thorax, abdomen and the legs yellow. Fore wing 

 brown below, with yellow patches on the eosta at base and apex; 

 hind wing brown; the costal area yellow, the veins on it black"' 

 (Hampsox. Molhs of India, 1, pag. 283). 



The caterpillar. at lirst sight, has some resemblance to a 

 Limacodid larva. It has a length of+lOmM.; head and thorax 

 are yellowish brown: body greyish brown, rinely pilose with a 

 black dorsal streak, bordered by white. Traces of a narrow, black r 

 subdorsal Une. 



The caterpillars are to be found on the upperside of the 

 leaves, feeding upon them and leaving the epidermis of the under- 

 side unattacked. thus causing brown spots which are very narrow 

 (1 2 mM.) and generally not longer than 30 mM. When a tree 

 is badly infested, thèse spots are so numerous, that nearly the 

 whole surface of the leaves looks brown. Meanwhile the latter 

 dry ont and curl up, by doing so giving the caterpillars an ex- 

 cellent locality for pupation. 



Generally the pupae are to be found at the side op the veins 

 of the leatlets, often in numerous rows. They are concealed under 

 an oval- schaped, tlat cocoon of brownish colour, which has an- 

 average length of 15 mM. and is woven by the Caterpillar before 

 it proceeds to pupate. After the moth has emerged the dry skin 

 of the pupa is partly visible from under the cocoon. 



