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then always flyin<i, close to the ground round bamboo clunii)S or 

 among bamboos in thick places in the ilusk. The style of flight is 

 satyrine : series of jerks i'voin tho wings being brought together over 

 the hack between each jork. Tlu^ insects always rest with their wings 

 closed and are not seen at flowers. They suck uj) sap from wounds on 

 trees. The eijos are laid on the undersides of bamboo leaves and, in 

 the case of D'h^cophora, in batches of from o to a dozen in rows. The 

 larVcT, when first they emerge, are as hairy as any moth caterpillar 

 and live in company until nearly full grown. The food plant is 

 Bamboos or Palms [Amathiixia). 



The morphine larva is, as far as is known, more or less cylindrical in 

 shape, has the head round and thick, in some cases [Amathusia) with 

 palmated lateral processes, sometimes smooth, the last segment of the 

 body ending in two well separated points, short and fleshy in Dis- 

 cophora. The body is covered s})arsely with long, fine hairs, longest 

 near head and anal extremity but not enough to hide the surface in the 

 least. The pupa is boat-shaped, smooth as to surface, the front produced 

 out into a long process consisting of two closely applied long fine cones. 

 As already stated the chrysalis is often attached to a perpendiculai" 

 surface, with its back towards it. The colour of the caterpillars known 

 is brown or blackish-grey with, in Discophora, a white or light dorsal 

 band and some red, yellow or black marks. The colour of the 

 chrysalis is either green or pinkish bone-colour according as it is form- 

 ed amongst green leaves or dead leaves. 



The morphine egg is " somewhat similar to that of the Salp-ime, 

 but comparatively flat, not so high in proportion to width ' translu- 

 cent hard, smooth [Dii^cophora, Thaumantis)^ or obscurely facetted 

 [Clerome),^ (Doherty)." That of Dmopliom lepida is flatteneel 

 spherically in shape, slightly shiny as to surface, looking as if it were 

 pitted extremely minutely all over, greyish-white in colour and of 

 ordinary size. Sometimes also, in this species, there are signs of fluff 

 from the abdomen of the buttei-fly among the eggs of a batch. 



DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES OF MORPHlNiE. 



I 3'- Discophora celinde, S<oZ^ — lil&lG : upperside purplish-brown, the basal 

 four-fifths of both fore and hindwing suffused with dark indigo-blue. Fore- 

 wing with two obliquely placed preapical pale ochraceous-white spots, and a 

 series of four or five subterminal similar spots. Hindwing uniform except for 

 the dark sex-mark on the disc. Underside ochraceous shaded with brown. 



