this moth is g'iven as Nilgiris, Ceylon, Borneo, Fiji. It evi- 

 dently reached Hawaii from the latter place. 



In Octoher, 1907, I caught in my house at Kaimuki a 

 female of this moth, which deposited eggs during the night, 

 and I was enabled to make complete observations on the life his- 

 tory. The eggs were not laid in a mass or cluster, but scattered 

 around singly, or two or three together on the surface of leaves ; 

 in several places, 5, 7 and 8 respectively, were nearly in rows 

 on the surface of grass leaves ; there were also eggs on the cloth 

 covering the jar in which she was retained ; in one place, 9 were 

 closely clustered together. There were 216 eggs in all. The 

 moth died the 4th day. 



The egg is hemispherical, having the flattened surface next 

 to the leaf; ribbed meridionally with about 30 ribs, 10 of which 

 reach the upper pole ; slight cross ridges between the ribs ; at the 

 upper pole an irregailar patch of reddish color, an irregular ring 

 of the same color at about 1-3 the distance from pole to base 

 of egg, remainder of egg pale green, wdien first laid, entirely 

 pale green, tLe reddish markings appearing soon after. Eggs 

 hatched in 5 days. 



Larva : ] st stage — about 2mm. long wdien first hatched ; dull 

 whitish, head black ; cervical shield and tubercles nearly black. 

 The hairs in tubercles quite prominent, dark. They crawl by 

 a looping motion, using of the prolegs, only the anal and those 

 on segment 10, the other prolegs are rudimentary. They eat 

 off the surface of leaves, leaving one epidermis. 



2nd stage — about 4mm. long, pale mottled reddish green, 

 with a dorsal and on each side a subdorsal stripe, paler, 

 head very pale luteous, eyes black ; tubercles small, with a tiny 

 blackish dot at base of hairs; hairs pale, shorter than in first 

 stage. They now use abdominal prolegs of segments 9 and 10 

 (others rudimentary) and still crawl by a looping motion. 

 They now eat holes thru the tender leaves ; but in older leaves, 

 leave one epidermis. 



3rd stage — about 6-8mm. long ; very much mottled with green- 

 ish, blackish and some times a faint reddish tinge; a dorsal 

 whitish line on each side, darker along ventral side; segment 

 12 slightly swollen, two whitish spots on dorsal side; segment 

 6 also has tw^o white spots on dorsal side each in a subdorsal 

 line; tubercles white; hairs very short; head slightly fuscous 



