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The larva according to van Deventer 40 millimeters long feeds on padi 

 (oRYZA SATivA L.) ; alang-alaug (imperata arundinacea Cyrill.) ; tebou (saccharum 

 OFFiciNARUM L.), and other species of grasses ; once I found it also on sereJi 

 ivancri (axdropogon schoenanthus L.). While most Hesperidae feed on 

 folded or rolled up leaves, van Deventer remarks that this species in its 

 last stadium lives free, mostly upon the leaves. It is light, yellowish, green 

 with many white dots and clear yellow subdorsal lines, which sometimes do 

 not run on to the last segment, while the vas dorsalis shines darkly through. 

 The anal extremity is rounded off. 



The head of the grown up larva is light-green, on each side is a vertical 

 red streak between two white lines, which red, however, is not always of the 

 same tint and just as the white strokes is sometimes more or less visible and 

 sometimes even entirely wanting. According to van Deventer, however, this 

 red in the last stage but one of the larva is considerably more extended and 

 the head of the young larva is uniformly black ; one of my notes seems to 

 agree with this last; from another it would appear that afterwards that black 

 considerably lessens. One then would be inclined to accept that in this manner 

 the black lessening gradually during the ontogenetic evolution, does reappear a part 

 of the original red colour yet unchanged, while another part thereof has already 

 faded into white, but that such is not the case with all individuals. In this 

 respect, however, much further inquiry is necessary before the facts, which are 

 of consequence here, can be settled. 



The pupa is light green with lengthwise running dim white lines. It is 

 fastened against a half folded leaf at the hind end and by a girdle thread that 

 goes over the upper part of the thorax. It is oblong and the head ends in 

 a snout. A pupa of the 8'*^ of January gave the imago on the 26''^ of that 

 month, one of the 5'i^ of March on the 14* of March. Van Deventer gives 

 a very good figure of the pupa; what concerns the larva, however, I think 

 my figure has succeeded better. 



4. Brunnea Snell. (PL VIII, fig. 51 a, b, c, d, c). 



Snellen, Tijdsclir. v. Ent. XIX, bl. i64,/>/. I, fig- 4 (1876) Pamphila Brunnea. 



Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zcit. 44, 5. 46 (1883) Hesperia „ 



De Niceville, Bombay Jouni. of Nat. Hist. VI, 3,/. 388, 



//. G, //;'. 33 5 (189 1) Chapra Caere. 



Mabille, Ann. Sac. Ent. Beige, 37, p. 53 (1893) . . . Pamphila Sodalis. 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. of London, 14, 4, 



/. 271, 276 (1897) Parnara Brunnea. 



The figure in the Tijdschrift voor Entonio/ogic is not very accurate. 



