5-4 



Cramer is mistaken in giving Surinam as the liabitat of this caterpillar; 

 his figure is bad, those by Moore and Distant are sufficiently accurate. 



W. J. Batavia (3 — 14); Buitenzorg (265) ; Megamendoung mountains (1450); 

 Soukaboumi (620) (Fruhst.) ; Gedeh mountains (1300) (Fruhst.). 



C. J. Touban (2) on the north coast; Tegal (Lucassen). 



E. J. A specimen without any indication of the place where it was caught. 



The butterfly is very common. With outspread wings it attaches itself to 

 the underside of leaves. 



The larva feeds on komijif (Curcuma Longa L.) on toiwu or ieiiiou la-va 

 (Curcuma spec.) and on kouping badak (Fagrasa Racenosa Jacq.) Just like 

 the larva of Notocrypta Feisthameui Bsd. it ejects vigorously its excrements ; 

 often, however, it spins some parts of a leaf together but does not roll it 

 up. Its colour is green, strongly mixed with white, and it is very transparent 

 so that different inward organs, such as the yellow testes and the vas dorsalis, 

 are distictly visible, and the contraction of the last is clearly to be seen. On 

 the body are cross-folds ; the foremost and hindmost segments are sometimes 

 yellowish ; sometimes also more or less black dots are visible on the body. 

 The head is black and its ape.x bifurcated. The pupa is fastened to a leaf by 

 a girdle thread and by some threads of silk at the anal extremity that at two 

 different places are attached to the leaf. It is a light yellowish green, with a 

 rather long projecting snout at the head-end and a membranous excavated 

 cremaster, that reminds one some of the pupae of the Sphingidae. The straight 

 haustellum, separated from the body, is very long and reaches to the end of 

 the abdomen. Sometimes along the abdomen a white line is to be seen. 

 A pupa of the 15'^ of February gave the imago on the 24''^ of that month, 

 one of the 22^^ of April on the 3"^ of May. 



The figures of the earliest states given by Horsfield are but middingly 

 accurate; those given by myself have succeeded better. 



Genus ASTICTOPTERUS Felder. 



I. Olivascens Moore. (PI. X, tig. 80, a, b). 



Moore, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. of Loudon 1878,/. 692 . Astictopterus Olivascens. 



Ploxz, S/c/f. Ent. Zcit. 1886, 5. 109 „ Melania. 



De Niceville, Joiirn. As. Soc. of Bengal, 55,/. 380, 



//. 18, fig. 2, 2« (1887) , Olivascens. 



El\ves and Edwards, Tians. Zoo/. Soc. of Loudon 



14, 4,/. \~2, p/. 18, Z/^-. 16 (1897) .... 



