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below. The head has imw a pale inverted V-shaped mark. Length 

 at end of third age 19 mm. Spun up 10th May; moulted 19th 'May. 

 Fovrth Age. Is very like third in general appearance and is shown 

 half grown in this age in sketch the length when 43 days old being 

 about 38 mm. The head has now a pale upper lip as well as the pale V 

 mark. It is a pity the unsuitableness of the food showed itself by them 

 going off one by one. I hope one day to complete the life history. 



I have here [exhibited] some specimens of the various stages of Caligula 

 cacham which Mr. Watson has sent for exhibition at this Meeting. Mr. 

 Watson has made a special study of silk-moths for many years and pro- 

 bably knows more of them than anybody else. We are much indebted 

 to him for sending this paper on the early stages of one of our Indian 

 species. 



48.--LIFE-HISTORIEB OF INDIAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



B>/ T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S.. Imperial 

 Eiitomologist. 



(Abstr.\ct.*) 

 Thi* abstract gives little more than a list of names of Species with 

 their food plants so far as is kno^\7i but it will perhaps serve to indicate 

 what is known and the numerous gaps in our knowledge. 



Pterophorid^. 

 Diaciotricha fa^ciolo. Zell. — Known from Ceylon and Pusa. Larva in 



flowers of Averrhoa hilimhi and A. carambola. 

 Buckleria jmhidicola. Fletcher. — Ceylon and Khasis. Larva on Drosera 



burmanni. 

 Buckleria xerodes, Meyr. — Ceylon to Nagpur. Larva on Gynandropsis. 

 Buckleria defectalis, Wlk. — Throughout Plains. Larva on Boerhaavia. 

 Buckleria tvahlbergi, Zell. — Throughout India and Ceylon. Larva on 



Oxalis sp. 

 Sphenarches caffer, Zell. — Throughout India, Burma, Ceylon. Larva 



on Cajamis indicus, DoUchos lablab, Lagenaria vulgaris, Lujfa sp., 



Hibiscus miitabilis, Averrhoa bilimbi, Biophytmn sensitii'iim and 



Mimosa pudica. 

 Oxyptilns lactucce, Fletcher. — Dehra Dun. Larva on lettuce. 



* The orfginal intentioa was to publish this paper n) extenso in these Proceedings 

 but it has run to such a length that it is considered desirable to publish an abstract only 

 and to issue the complete paper elsewhere. 



