BY WALTER W. FR0GGATT. 2/D 



Lerp shaped like the valve of a mussel shell, attached to the 

 leaf by a scale-like hinge; 2| lines in diameter, round, convex. 

 When freshly formed the colours and outline of the larva can be 

 distinguished through the lerp, but later on it becomes browner 

 and opaque. 



Pupa variable in colour; when full grown, pale greenish-yellow 

 with the wing- covers dark brown, upper surface of the thorax 

 blotched with bright red; eyes, centre of the head, and abdomen 

 of a similar colour. Two large blotches between eyes, blotches 

 on lower half of thorax, and interrupted bars across abdominal 

 segments black. 



Imago. — Length 0'09, antenme 0'03 inch. 



General colour ochreous, antenna? banded with brown; front 

 of thorax, a patch on either side behind wings, and scutellum 

 black; abdomen pink, with a slender black band on apical edge 

 of each segment ; wings light brown, thickly mottled with 

 irregular brown spots; nervures light brown. Head narrow, 

 -convex behind, rounded on the sides, with a deep median suture 

 and fovea on either side. Face lobes broad, short, hairy. 

 Antenna? short and slender, 1st joint very short, thick, 2nd 

 slightly longer than 1st, 3rd longest, 4th much shorter, 5th-9th 

 joints of about the same length, 10th short and rounded at the 

 tip. Eyes very large, rounded on outer margin : central ocellus 

 small, at apex of median suture; lateral ocelli large, circular, 

 "bright red, close to hindmargin of eyes. Thorax : pronotum 

 narrow, convex in front; dorsulum large, rounded in front, com- 

 ing to a flange at extremities, sloping down and truncate behind; 

 mesonotum large, arcuate in front, rounded behind, sides armed 

 with a rounded spine in a line with forewings; scutellum arcuate 

 in front, rounded behind. Legs short and stout; apex of thighs, 

 base of tibia?, and tarsi brown. Wings short and broad, rounded 

 at tips, slightly more than twice as long as broad, broadly rounded 

 from base to tip and slightly arcuate in centre of hindmargin; 

 primary stalk short, thickened at apex, stalk of subcosta short, 

 costal cell large, with a stout transverse nervure between it and 

 the long slender stigma; radius short, curving upward to front 



